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While the outcomes of institutional racism in our education system have been well documented — Black and American Indian students are half as likely to graduate from college within four years compared to white and Asian students — few people realize how structural racism within educational institutions affects mental health outcomes for students.
A new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH), published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, fills this gap, exploring the long-term mental health effects for Black students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) compared with Black students attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs) of higher education.