Christian Collins, a researcher at CLASP and co-author of the report, said although the national conversation on student parents has rightly been focused on mothers, “at the same time, our findings show that student fathers, and specifically Black student fathers, have additional barriers to accessing and completing a postsecondary education that aren’t really highlighted.”
These barriers are being highlighted along with other socioeconomic and structural factors that are increasingly being identified as reasons for decreasing numbers of Black men enrolling in college, or staying and graduating if they do enroll.
According to a report released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center in March, enrollment of Black men nationally dropped by 14.3 percent between spring 2020 and spring 2021. The rate plunged even more at two-year colleges—21.5 percent. The decreases were also compounded by the pandemic.
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