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- Title
Underrepresented Minority Students in College: The Role of Classmates.
- Authors
Oliver, Daniel M.
- Abstract
The role of racial diversity at colleges has been debated for over more than a half a century with limited quasi-experimental evidence from classrooms. To fill this void, I estimate the extent that classmate racial compositions affect Hispanic and African American students at a large and oversubscribed California community college where they are minorities. I find that when minority students are exposed to a greater share of same-race classmates, they are more likely to complete the class with a pass and are more likely to enroll in a same-subject course the subsequent term. The findings are robust to first-time students with the lowest registration priority versus all students and different combinations of fixed effects (e.g., student, class, and instructor race).
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; MINORITY college students; HISPANIC American students; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; AFRICAN American students; EDUCATION policy; HISPANIC Americans; FLIPPED classrooms; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p598
- ISSN
0162-3737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/01623737221143133