In jstor, I discovered this source that speaks to the impact systemic racism has on minority students in higher education. It talks more specifically about the disadvantage minority students have when preparing for college (because of systematic racism) and the trajectory that leads them down.
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It discusses the way that higher education was intended to serve the white majority. White students benefit more before, during and after college because of being apart of the “elite” class. While minority students are consequently disadvantaged because of lack of resources and discrimination and bias within post-secondary education and opportunities. This creates inequality on the structural level as well as on the personal one. Minority students face discrimination in almost every aspect of higher education and this source evidences that fact.
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Additionally, this source looks not only at the experience of minority students in higher education, but also the faculty experience. The small number of minority faculty at universities (that mimics the low number of minority students) is because of the school’s inability to put in the effort to recruit, hire, and promote these professors. The author looks at the discrepancy between the fact that many universities boast about supporting diversity while simultaneously failing in many areas of representation.
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