Technology and College Access: Understanding the Unique Challenges and Opportunities Black Students Face

Sharla Berry

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021)

The author makes a case that educators might leverage Black students’ significant use of and innovation with technology to expand opportunities to cultivate college knowledge and expand college access. The brief highlights the relationship between technology and college knowledge, explores the barriers that Black youth may encounter in using technology to research and prepare for college, and offers an assets-based approach to understanding how Black youth learn, innovate, and create with technology.

This is one of five reports generated from research funded by the inaugural Pullias Center Equity Alumni Awards created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pullias Center.

Categories: College Access, Alumni Equity Award, Racial Equity

 

  equity alumni award     racial equity     technology  

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