Choosing the Right College as a Student of Color

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 11, 2015

It's college application season. Given recent headlines, some students of color may be thinking twice about their top choices when accounting for race relations on college campuses or questioning what they're looking for when it comes to the racial make-up of a student body or diversity of faculty.

Maria Furtado, executive director of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee at Colleges That Change Lives, Inc., and Sabrina Zirkel, associate dean and professor of educational leadership at Mills College, discuss what parents and potential college students should consider regarding race when applying to universities, granted the fraught racial climate at some schools right now, including the University of Missouri and Yale University.

@BrianLehrer (white kids might not want to go to a place with a clueless admin either)
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.@ruby_beth What factors do you think you *would* have looked at more closely, if you were to do it again?
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@BrianLehrer specially mental health service providers with rigorous cultural competence. College is a really tough time 2 feel alone
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@BrianLehrer @ruby_beth shocked by Jerelyn Luther's behavior. That's not how you disagree with someone & the 2nd email made valid pts.
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HBCUs empower in a safe space & does give you the resilience to deal with less "cohesive" spaces after college. @BrianLehrer
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Resources for parents/students looking at colleges: -Collegeresults.org -CCTL.org @CTCLColleges -look for NSSE survey results for colleges
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