Title:
It’s Time to Worry About College Enrollment Declines Among Black Students
Author:
Ben Miller
Published:
Center for American Progress, 28 September 2020
From the article:
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, higher education was facing a national decline in enrollment. From the 2014-15 to the 2018-19 academic year, annual undergraduate enrollment across all institutions of higher education fell by 1.25 million students, a decline of 5 percentage points.1 Moreover, during this time span, undergraduate enrollment in public colleges dropped by 425,000 students—a nearly 2.5 percent decline.