Fixing the Minority Achievement Gap

On Wednesday 19 universities committed to making sure more minorities and low-income students attend and graduate college.

The 19 public universities, mostly in California, New York and Florida, announced this week they would introduce efforts to resolve the problem by 2015, according to an article by the Associated Press.

National statistics show black and Hispanic students are two to three times less likely to graduate from college than white students.

The universities said they would address issues like the increasing costs of education, living costs and academic holes in their own curriculum.

The universities will keep tabs on their own progress and be transparent about their efforts. They said they will release data for graduation rates for low-income students, something that is rarely done by most American universities.