Despite Progress, It’s Still White Men at the Top in HE

Six weeks after the headline writers at Forbes magazine gave American higher education a pat on the back with the headline, “The majority of America’s [20] top-ranked colleges will be led by a woman or person of color this fall”, a study from the American Council on Education (ACE) reported that across America’s higher education sector, only 12.5% of colleges and universities are led by women of colour. These presidents make up under a third of the 33% of colleges and universities with women presidents – and the figure of 12.5% is far short of the 44.6% of female students of colour enrolled in American higher education.