The issue is nothing new for universities: the need to diversify the student body (and their faculty).
Now every public university in the country can see how well it is serving black students — at least by a few metrics — with a new report card from the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center.
And universities need improvement, according to Shaun Harper, the center’s executive director and a prominent race-relations consultant for campuses.
This is the first time Harper has graded both the nation’s public, four-year universities and all 50 states using federal data. Harper said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed that many institutions are “failing black students.”…