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Black and Hispanic students are half as likely to transfer as white students, and lower-income students half as likely as higher-income ones, contributing to the fact that only 28 percent of Black and 21 percent of Hispanic adults have bachelor’s degrees, compared to 42 percent of white adults.

Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape

Jan 13, 2023 ◇ Jon Marcus/The Hechinger Report

The already low proportion of students who transfer from community colleges to bachelor’s degree-granting universities fell by about 10 percent over the last two years, with the decline even larger for Black students and men - part of the drop in people going to college at all. Read more»