Ayyad, Fatma2019-01-252019-01-252015http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87017This literature review analysis revealed that governmental and non-profit foundations have promoted racial equity to enhance the life of people who live in poverty in the United States. These institutions intended to provide opportunities for low-income individuals, such as education. Despite improvements for historically underrepresented students in higher education, there are still gaps in college attainment between White non-Hispanics and minorities. This paper discusses how system policies in the workplace and schools create social economic disparities in society.application/pdfen-USCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalequity in American higher educationcollege enrollmentminority studentsnon-profit organizationswhite privilegeArticleVolume 2: Issue 2, Article 2https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=csal