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Borden, Victor M. H. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
Total associate degrees conferred by U.S. institutions increased by 11 percent between academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11 to a record high of close to 950,000. Among students of color, the percentage increase was even higher: 13 percent. Students of color received nearly 300,000 associate degrees or about one-third of the 2010-11 total. Among…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Associate Degrees, Minority Groups, Educational Attainment
Blackmon, Olivia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
This year, Diverse has added a new addition to its annual Top 100 degree producers series--recognizing, with this edition, the institutions that award the most associate degrees to students of color. More than half of minority undergraduate students start their degree quest at a community college with 55 percent of all Hispanic and Native American…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Associate Degrees, Classification, Higher Education