A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.
New data show the highest persistence and retention rates in a decade, with Black students at public four-year colleges boasting especially high year-over-year increases. College students’ persistence and retention rates have climbed back to pre-pandemic levels—and then some. In fact, the rate of students who returned for their second year of college last year was the highest in a decade, according to new research by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
