Budget cuts at Michigan’s public universities are disproportionately hurting black students by making it more difficult for them to attend college, a new report argues. The report, by The Century Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan think tank, declares a “college affordability crisis in Michigan.” It isn’t clear how many students don’t attend college due to rising tuition costs versus other factors — just 28 percent of students who graduated from the Detroit Public Schools Community District in 2017 completed one year of college credits within a year of graduation. But the report suggests that affordability hurts college attendance rates in communities of color.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/detroit/2019/09/09/report-michigan-skimps-on-higher-education-and-students-of-color-pay-the-price/
