Equity Snapshot: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

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2018-10-01
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Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
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Public flagship universities were established to provide an excellent education to their states’ residents and are therefore well-positioned to enhance social and economic mobility within their states. Yet in many cases, too few low-income students and students of color have access to these elite colleges and the opportunities they provide. This analysis of racial and socioeconomic equity at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (U-M Ann Arbor) finds large and growing gaps in college access, as well as troubling gaps in college completion, by race and socioeconomic status. To serve as a catalyst for mobility and equity in the state of Michigan, U-M Ann Arbor must do a better job enrolling and graduating low-income students and students of color.

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education, higher--Michigan (State), higher education system, educational attainment, low-income students, minority students
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