Blacks and Other Minorities Now Make Up a Smaller Percentage of Community College Presidents Than They Did Five Years Ago

A survey presented last week at the annual convention of the American Association of Community Colleges in Long Beach, California, has found that minorities make up a smaller percentage of community college presidents than was the case five years ago. The survey, conducted by George B. Vaughan, a professor of higher education at North Carolina State University, and Iris M. Weisman, an associate professor of higher education at Antioch University, found that in 2006, 13 percent of all community college presidents were members of minority groups. Five years ago 14 percent of all community college presidents were minorities.

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