Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy

Denisa Gándara, Rosa Maria Acevedo, Diana Cervantes and Marco Antonio Quiroz

The Journal of Higher Education, 2024, vol. 95, issue 6, 718-746

Abstract: Many policies in higher education are intended to improve college access and degree completion, yet often those policies fall short of their aims by making it difficult for prospective or current college students to access benefits for which they are eligible. Barriers that inhibit access to policy benefits, such as cumbersome paperwork, can weigh more heavily on members of marginalized communities, including racially minoritized students. Such administrative burdens can thus reinforce patterns of inequity. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework for examining administrative burdens embedded in higher education policies that can negatively affect prospective and current college students, especially those who are racially minoritized. With the use of our proposed framework for addressing racialized administrative burdens, researchers can improve the understanding of ethnoracial disparities in higher education, inform policymakers’ design of racially equitable policies for higher education, and enable practitioners to implement those policies to promote racial equity.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2023.2251866

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