American universities are failing to attract ethnic minority students, which is leading to a “stagnation” of education levels, according to Professor Catharine Bond Hill, President of New York State’s prestigious Yale-NUS College. Hill believes that many countries have overtaken the US on university participation rates, partly because its tertiary institutions have done a poor job of enrolling students from the fastest-growing minority group, Hispanics. She went on to explain that 44% of Americans now enrol in higher education, compared with 57% in Canada and 60% in South Korea.
American universities are failing to attract ethnic minority students, which is leading to a “stagnation” of education levels, according to Professor Catharine Bond Hill, President of New York State’s prestigious Vassar College. Hill believes that many countries have overtaken the US on university participation rates, partly because its tertiary institutions have done a poor job of enrolling students from the fastest-growing minority group, Hispanics. She went on to explain that 44% of Americans now enrol in higher education, compared with 57% in Canada and 60% in South Korea.