Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
Black and Hispanic college enrollment has already started to decline since the onset of Covid-19. At community colleges, Black college enrollment dropped 12 percent this fall, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and Hispanic college enrollment by more than 8 percent. In the summer, Black enrollment overall dropped by more than 6 percent, compared to 2019, more sharply than that of any other racial group. “We’re going backward,” said Tania Tetlow, president of Loyola University New Orleans.