Why Minority-Serving Institutions Are Key to Boosting College Graduation Rates
Can America meet the ambitious goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020? A new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Lumina Foundation Models of Success project says we’ll only get there if we tap the expertise of minority-serving institutions, schools that have a history of educating large numbers of "low-income, first generation, and under-represented students" of color.
MSI's are historically black colleges and universities; tribal colleges and universities; Hispanic-serving institutions; and Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander-serving institutions. Since 2009, the Models of Success project has studied MSIs to see what they're doing to help improve college graduation rates. HBCUs for example, are only three percent of all colleges and universities, but they enroll 16 percent of black
