{"id":14736,"date":"2014-01-15T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/college-enrollment-among-low-income-students-still-trails-richer-groups\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:23:29","slug":"college-enrollment-among-low-income-students-still-trails-richer-groups","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/01\/15\/college-enrollment-among-low-income-students-still-trails-richer-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"College enrollment among low-income students still trails richer groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_income2.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f2f2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f2f2;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"520\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_income2.png?resize=420,520 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-27180 not-transparent\" alt=\"collegeStudents_income2\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_income2.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Higher education long has been seen as one of the best ways out of poverty, but connecting low-income students &#8212; even the high-achieving ones who presumably are best prepared for college-level work &#8212; with colleges and universities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/projects\/bpea\/spring%202013\/2013a_hoxby.pdf?utm_content=buffer78df6&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">remains a challenge<\/a>. On Thursday, President Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/11\/us\/politics\/obama-counts-on-power-of-convening-people-for-change.html?_r=0\">expected to meet<\/a> with more than 100 college presidents at the White House to discuss ways of enrolling more low-income minority students and helping ensure more of them graduate.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">College enrollment among low-income students has generally increased over the past several decades, according to data from the 2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/2013menu_tables.asp\">Digest of Educational Statistics<\/a>\u00a0(an arm of the federal Education Department). But the Great Recession and weak recovery have eroded the gains of recent years, and\u00a0middle- and upper-income students remain far more likely to go to college.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012, the most recent year for which NCES figures are available, 50.9% of recent low-income high school completers (a category that includes both graduates and people who completed an equivalency degree and who are ages 16 to 24) were enrolled in a 2- or 4-year college. That&#8217;s down from the record-high 58.4% in 2007, and just half a percentage point higher than the rate in 1993.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But enrollment rates among middle- and high-income students also have risen, to 64.7% and 80.7%, respectively, in 2012. (NCES defines &#8220;low income&#8221; as the bottom 20% of all family incomes, &#8220;high income&#8221; as the top 20%, and &#8220;middle income&#8221; as the 60% in between.) Looking at it another way, low-income students now are enrolled at about the same rate as middle-income students were in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_race2.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f1f2f1\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f1f2f1;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"464\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_race2.png?resize=420,464 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-27176 not-transparent\" alt=\"collegeStudents_race2\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/collegeStudents_race2.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d12\/tables_1.asp\">2012 data<\/a>\u00a0on college entry <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d13\/tables\/dt13_302.20.asp\">by race and ethnicity<\/a> show a striking convergence: After decades of marked disparities in enrollment, about two-thirds of white, black and <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2013\/05\/09\/hispanic-high-school-graduates-pass-whites-in-rate-of-college-enrollment\">Hispanic high school completers all were enrolled in college<\/a>. (Enrollment among Asians continued to far outpace other groups.) But significant differences remain in completing high school: As of the 2009-10 academic year, the average freshman graduation rate in U.S. public high schools was 93.5% for Asian\/Pacific Islanders, 83% for whites, 71.4% for Hispanics and 66.1% for blacks.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher education long has been seen as one of the best ways out of poverty, but connecting low-income students &#8212; even the high-achieving ones who presumably are best prepared for college-level work &#8212; with colleges and universities remains a challenge. 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