What does Teach For America do to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of its corps?
Teach For America is strongly committed to ensuring the racial and ethnic diversity of our corps. (Learn more about diversity in the corps.) Currently, people of color made up 29 percent of our 2008 corps. Our diversity compares favorably to the diversity of graduates of the nation’s top schools.* 10 percent of the corps is African-American, 6 percent of the corps is Latino/Hispanic, and 6 percent of the corps is Asian-American, compared with 5.2 percent, 5.1 percent, and 8.8 percent respectively, of the college seniors who graduate from the nation’s top colleges and universities.** Our approach to maintaining and growing this level of diversity is to invest heavily in the upfront sourcing of talented applicants of color. To that end, we recruit from over 400 public and private colleges and universities across the country, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and schools with a significant Latino/Hispanic student body. On the campuses where we recruit, we pres
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