Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Muhammad Zuhdi, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and Stephen Dobson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University