The Effects of Segregation on the Performance of Black and Latino Students at Selective Universities

• In Event: 52.083 - Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 52.083-18 - Social Inequality in Access to and Success in College

Abstract

In this study, we use the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) to understand how neighborhood and school segregation affect the academic achievement of students at selective universities and whether academic and social integration within the college setting mediates the relationship between school or neighborhood racial segregation and GPA during college? We find that black students from segregated neighborhoods underperform academically relative to their race-ethnic counterparts once they reach college, even net of previous achievement and ability. Latinos on the other hand, experience an increase in their college GPA when they have attended racially mixed or segregated high school contexts.

Author

• Andrew D. Hoyt, University of Notre Dame