Colleges structurally skew even the most selective campuses toward white students.

Evidence

The institutions themselves perpetuate the problem, too, by not considering the ways they deprive black or low-income students of the same college experience as their white peers. Take the work-study model, for example; why make a lower-income student’s attendance at the university contingent on their employment there? Or consider on-campus job recruitment: Are colleges ensuring that the companies who recruit have fair hiring practices, or are they providing opportunities for white students at the expense of black students? Even the question of who works for the university affects black and white students differently: In 2018, a black student at Smith College, an exclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, was eating lunch in a dormitory when the police arrived; an employee had called them, saying that the student “seemed out of place.” — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 277

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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