June 6, 2022
A new article by Tolani Britton, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, analyzes the impact of the Great Recession on college enrollment rates for Black and Latinx students. The article, published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, shows that the probability of college enrollment increased after the onset of the Great Recession for Black students and that there is some weak evidence that enrollment might have increased for Latinx students as well.