Good News In The Struggle For Equality

Black College Enrollment Up 52% Over Last Decade

A combination of higher entrance into historically white public universities and an overall decrease in the proportion of the population that is black has led to record levels of black college enrollment.

From the AP article:

For the first time ever in the South, blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region's population as a whole — something not yet true of the country overall.
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Still, the report reflects the reality that many more Southern blacks are enrolling in college. In those states, about 1.1 million black students were enrolled in college in the fall of 2005, 52 percent more than a decade earlier.
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"We've removed a lot of the barriers and accepted that we will have to provide higher levels of learning support in the short-term," said Erroll Davis, who oversees the 33 institutions in the University System of Georgia, noting minority students arrive on campus with lower levels of college preparedness on average.

Overall, blacks represent 31.4 percent of all Georgia college students, about 1 percent higher than the proportion in the overall population. The proportion of blacks in the state university system is about 24 percent _ higher than a decade ago but still below the population as a whole.

We should celebrate good news when we get it and this is great. As we move forward it is necessary that we fully fund education and secure even better teachers so that all students will be prepared should they go on to college.
The AP Article