“A Bridge analysis of national data reveals that Black college students at Michigan’s public universities graduated on average at a rate that is 22 percentage points lower than their white peers who entered freshman orientation with them — one of the largest racial graduation gaps in the nation.” Eve Washington’s reports in The Bridge.
NEWS BRIEFS: Distressing Black-White Graduation Rate Disparity Revealed in Michigan’s Public Higher Ed
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