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OSU getting richer and more white, report says
But more minority and low-income students are graduating high school.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Ohio State University and the nation's other flagship colleges have grown disproportionately whiter and richer, even though more poor and minority students are graduating high school, according to a national report.
The report released last week by the Education Trust — Engines of Inequality — grades the 50 states' oldest and most prestigious colleges in how well they enrolled and graduated low-income and minority students from their respective states.
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"The gap today nationwide is actually larger than it was 20 years ago," said Kati Haycock, report co-author.
OSU received a "D" grade for low-income access, because its proportion of freshmen receiving Pell grants in 2004 (23 percent) lagged behind colleges statewide (38 percent).
Its overall grade of "C" was boosted by a "B" for its ability to equitably graduate minority students, and because new efforts to aggressively recruit low-income students showed improvement.
Tally Hart, longtime director of financial aid at OSU who is now its senior adviser for economic access, said the college understands the magnitude of the problem and wants to improve its next EdTrust scorecard.
