Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … with required attendance provides frequent interactions with the TA. We find evidence that underrepresented minority … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …