Search
Now showing items 131-140 of 140
APLU: Committed to Latino Student Success
(Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, 2013-08-01)
The Latino community has experienced unprecedented growth in the United States in the past five decades, yet a limited proportion of Latinos are accessing colleges and universities, and even fewer are completing their ...
Remedial Education in California’s Colleges and Universities
(Public Policy Institute of California, 2017-10-01)
Remedial courses, also known as developmental or basic skills education, generally cover high school material and are aimed at students deemed unprepared for college-level work. At CSU, Latino and African American students ...
Profiles of Selected Programs That Work for Latino Students in Higher Education 2006
(Excelencia in Education, 2006)
The 2006 Examples of Excelencia compendium provides a description of the practices used by two programs (one associate and one baccalaureate level) and the results they achieved. This compendium also includes the same ...
What Works for Latino Students in Higher Education 2017
(Excelencia in Education, 2017)
Through Examples of Excelencia, Excelencia in Education recognizes programs that accelerate Latino student success in four categories: the Associate, Baccalaureate, and Graduate levels as well as Community-Based Organizations ...
Reframing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A Counterstory of a “Latinized” Institution in the Midwest
(The Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania, 2017-04-13)
The purpose of this article is to reframe the research and policy perspective on Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Specifically, the authors answer the following question: What does a “Latinized” postsecondary institution ...
Black + Brown: Institutions of Higher Education
(Excelencia in Education; United Negro College Fund, 2014-09-01)
Seeing the critical national importance of examining the profile of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) alongside historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Excelencia in Education, in partnership with the ...
Latino Faculty in Postsecondary Education
(Excelencia in Education, 2017-10-01)
Research suggests that diversity on campus—both student diversity and faculty diversity—benefits all students by providing diverse perspectives and expanding cultural competencies for all students, as well as contributing ...
Latino Adult Learners in Higher Education
(Excelencia in Education, 2017)
Latinos are a young and fast-growing population in education, but there are also opportunities to address the educational attainment of adults. Two-thirds of Latino adults have earned a high school diploma or less. This ...
Higher Education in California: Expanding College Access
(Public Policy Institute of California, 2017-09-01)
More California high school graduates are academically ready for college than ever before. More are applying to and enrolling in college, and both the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) ...
Breaking Stereotypes by Obtaining a Higher Education: Latinas' Family Values and Tradition on the School Institution
(McNair Scholars Journal, 2010)
This article aims to answer two main research questions. First, How do family values and traditions affect eighteen to nineteen year old Latinas’ decision-making process of going or not going to college?, and second, how ...