Minorities in Higher Education Twenty-SECOND Annual Status Report : 2007 supplement

Abstract

Since 1984, the American Council on Education (ACE) has published its annual Minorities in Higher Education status report. After much reflection and consultation with our member institutions, we have decided to publish a full status report every other year, with a special supplement in the intervening years to update the most frequently used tables from the full report. This decision was made for strategic and practical reasons, and does not reflect any change in ACE’s historic commitment to pursuing diversity and inclusiveness in American higher education. The data on enrollment, degrees conferred, faculty, and administrators in higher education vary little in any single-year span, so the annual changes we report are often small. Producing the full status report is a large and complex undertaking that precludes staff from pursuing other programs and research on access, equity, diversity, and success. By altering the publication schedule for the Minorities in Higher Education status reports, ACE will be able to bring its constituents a larger and more diverse range of research and programmatic activities that address this vitally important agenda. This special supplement to last year’s 22nd edition presents the latest data on high school completion and college participation rates, educational attainment rates, and degrees conferred. In each case, information is included for the racial and ethnic groups for whom data is available for the years reported.