"These institutions are doing the lion's share of serving low-income students and students of color," EdTrust senior vice president Wil Del Pilar said. "We need to be providing additional resources to these institutions as they continue to do more and more of the work of enrolling and graduating students of color."
The study, titled "Updating the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color," is based on a series of Zoom interviews with leaders from 22 different MSIs between March and November of 2022. Based on those interviews, the advocacy group recommends generally increasing the amount of annual federal funding; acknowledging the varied types, sizes and locations of institutions in the selection process; and providing stronger technical assistance in both the application and implementation stages of grant programs.
A new report released Tuesday by Education Trust, a nonprofit policy and advocacy group, suggests that it's time to better support these institutions and address historic underfunding by giving them more federal money and making grant programs more equitably accessible.
The demand for these colleges is expected to grow, and leaders of the institutions say they need more funding and guidance to keep up.
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