New Vanderbilt-led research will examine the intersection of students’ race and family and social contexts when it comes to Black students’ college choices and how these choices have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
“Through interviews and examination of student diary entries, we hope to glean a deeper understanding of factors that impact the college choices of Black students,” Kelly Slay, assistant professor of higher education and public policy, said. “We also seek to understand how the inequities of the college selection process have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Slay, along with co-researcher Tangela Blakely Reavis, assistant professor of educational leadership at St. Mary’s College of California, has been awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation to explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the college choices of Black students.
Slay added that existing research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately harmed people of color, who have experienced higher rates of infection and mortality and greater levels of economic and educational disruption.
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