- The gender gap in higher education is most pronounced among black students; only 56 black males attend for every 100 black females.
- Hostile campus environments, disengagement in student activities, lack of support from faculty and peers, and the need to work part-time contribute to black males' lower success in higher education.
- The Equity Scorecard process convenes "evidence teams," comprised of key actors in an institution who identify inequities in their institution and use data to determine their causes.
- Causes of inequity are often case-specific and not obvious. For example, one college found that it had a disproportionately small number of black transfer students and addressed this by making improvements to its "transfer culture."
- Numbers speak volumes in higher education; disaggregating outcome data by race and gender enables institutions to hold themselves accountable for serving their students equitably.
Published by
- Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, University of California, Berkeley School of Law