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Texas Southern president's sudden exit complicates push to improve graduation rates, experts say
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Texas Southern University President Lesia Crumpton-Young suddenly resigned, a decision...

Graduates enter the Texas Southern University's Spring 2021 commencement at Alexander Durley Stadium Saturday, May 8, 2021, in Houston.London Ragland encountered setback after setback after enrolling at Texas Southern University as a transfer student in 2018: an unexpected change in her federal financial aid, a major health issue, the death of her father.

The public university holds some of the lowest graduation rates in Texas: By 2022, 7 percent of first-time freshmen who arrived in 2018 had graduated in four years, 26 percent who started in 2016 had graduated in six years and 33 percent of community college transfers from 2018 had graduated in four years, TSU data show. Around 55 percent of first-time freshmen in 2021 returned for their sophomore year.

Nationally, HBCUs play a critical role in producing graduates. While HBCUs make up only 3 percent of the country’s colleges and universities, they enroll 10 percent of all African American students and produce almost 20 percent of all African American graduates, according to the United Negro College Fund.

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