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    African Americans' College Enrollment

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    An 8 page research proposal seeking to determine why more African American students do not seek college admission. Black and white Americans enjoyed momentary equality in terms of enrollment in colleges and universities in 1976. That equality was short lived as disparities grew until 1982, when the racial gap between African American and white students grew to 10 percent. All college enrollment has increased in recent years; African American students have made the greatest gains among minority students. By 2003, the racial gap had declined to less than 8 percent and 54.8 percent of all African American students completing high school entered college during their first year after high school. There is some evidence that the state of the national economy may be a predictor of African American college enrollment, but there is also evidence that African American students are discouraged from attending college in the form of negative messages regarding likelihood of success. Bibliography lists 5 sources. Includes an abstract.

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    white Americans enjoyed momentary equality in terms of enrollment in colleges and universities in 1976. That equality was short lived as disparities grew until 1982, when the racial gap  between African American and white students grew to 10 percent. All college enrollment has increased in recent years; African American students have made the greatest gains among minority students.  By 2003, the racial gap had declined to less than 8 percent and 54.8 percent of all African American students completing high school entered college during their first year  after high school. There is some evidence that the state of the national economy may be a predictor of African American college enrollment,  but there is also evidence that African American students are discouraged from attending college in the form of negative messages regarding likelihood of success. This is a research proposal  seeking to determine why more African American students do not seek college admission. Introduction In 1976, Black and white Americans enjoyed momentary equality  in terms of enrollment in colleges and universities (News and Views: African-American College Enrollment, 2004). Crushing economic problems including high unemployment and hyperinflation during the late 1970s and early  1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the early 1980s. As college tuition rates soared in the  face of double-digit inflation, "the black student college participation rate dropped to 35.8 percent in 1982, very close to the level that existed at the time of the passage of  the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (News and Views: African-American College Enrollment, 2004; p. 43). Today, parity in percentages of African-Americans and white 

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