Browsing by Author "Excelencia in Education"

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    Assessing Opportunities to Implement the Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) to College Initiative
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2013-08-01)
    The Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) education initiative, HIP to College, is intended to develop local networks of funders to support the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s College Ready Education and Postsecondary Success strategies. To further develop the initiative, HIP identified five sites to consider for future work — two states (Colorado and North Carolina), two metropolitan areas (Philadelphia and New Orleans), and one region (South Florida). These five locations represent a diverse set of communities with varying level of Latinos student concentration and college readiness. This report provides a snapshot of the current status of education for Latinos at the national level and in the five locations; it also gives an overview of the local education policy landscape, with opportunities and challenges in College-Ready Education and Postsecondary Success strategies for Latino students.
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    Black + Brown: Institutions of Higher Education
    Excelencia in Education; United Negro College Fund (Excelencia in Education, 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 United Negro College Fund - Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, released new analysis to bring intentional focus to strengthening minority student success. While HBCUs and HSIs only represent twenty percent of all institutions in the nation, these institutions educate nearly half of all black and Latino students, many of whom are low-income and first-generation college attendees. Given the population growth of these students overall, both HSIs and HBCUs are in a distinct position to help move the country’s college completion agenda forward. Therefore, showing the commonalities between these two groups of institutions can be beneficial in raising policy awareness about Latino and black students and the institutions serving them.
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    Closing the Equity Gap in Educational Attainment for Latinos
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2018-09-01)
    The nation can increase degree attainment for all, but closing the gap between Latinos and other groups requires an intentional and tactical strategy to accelerate Latinos’ attainment. This is not an “us vs. them” approach. Excelencia in Education is tracking four measures of equity gaps to inform action: Latinos’ growth in: 1) enrollment, and, 2) attainment, and Latinos’ progress in: 3) graduation rates, and 4) completion rates.
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    College Transfer in Texas
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2017-06-01)
    With many Latinos enrolled in community colleges in Texas, understanding the pathways and transfers in the state can guide policy efforts. This factsheet provides a snapshot of student transfer in Texas.
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    The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2013: Hispanic Students
    ACT; Excelencia in Education (ACT, 2014-05-22)
    The report provides a national snapshot of academic performance among Hispanic students in the high school graduating class of 2013 who took the ACT® college readiness assessment. The report makes clear that although many Hispanic high school students are making progress toward college and career readiness; overall levels of readiness among Hispanic students are not yet where they should be. To this end, the report offers several recommendations for improving readiness for Hispanic students and all students including establishing clear, high, and common academic standards in the classroom; increasing the rigor of high school core courses; monitoring student performance beginning in the early grades; and making academic interventions with off-target students as soon as possible, based on timely and reliable performance data.
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    The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2014: Hispanic Students
    ACT; Excelencia in Education (ACT, 2015-06-01)
    Latinos represent almost one quarter of all public high school students, and projections show a continued increase. They have made progress in measures of college and career readiness, but more needs to be done. The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2014 – Hispanic Students provides a snapshot of academic performance for Latino high school students graduating in 2014 who took the ACT college readiness assessment. This report offers recommendations for policy and practice that policymakers and schools can implement to increase Latino college and career readiness.
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    The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2015: Hispanic Students
    ACT; Excelencia in Education (ACT, 2016)
    There is historic growth in Latino numbers entering colleges and universities in the United States, and many Latino students are making progress toward college and career readiness. Yet Latino high school students demonstrate college readiness in key academic areas in 2015 at largely similar levels to previous graduating classes, which is below other groups of students. While this report benchmarks Hispanic students’ college and career readiness, it also describes how the US educational system serves this large and growing proportion of today’s students and future employees. This report includes several recommendations about improving readiness for Hispanic students and all students by involving Latino parents in the educational system, increasing Latino teacher recruitment and development, encouraging education system alignment, supporting practitioners’ educationally purposeful data use, and increasing STEM curriculum development and STEM interest and career exploratory pathways. This report coincides with the announcement from ACT to establish the ACT Center for Equity in Learning, designed to create, lead, and coordinate strategic approaches to improve equity, access, opportunity, and success for all.
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    Examining Life Outcomes Among Graduates of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
    Excelencia in Education; Gallup (Excelencia in Education, 2018-09-01)
    Latino graduates of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) with inclusive environments, strong support systems, and career services are more likely than the general college-education population to have fulfilling professional, personal, and social lives. Excelencia in Education partnered with the Strada Education Network and Gallup to examine the role of HSIs since they enroll 65% of all Latino college students. Results from the study are based on 12 HSIs from our Excelencia in Action network.
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    Factbook: The conditions of Latinos in Education 2015
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2015-01-01)
    This book presents and analyzes data about the current condition of Latino student educational achievement, establishing a baseline from which to measure performance from 2005-2015. It displays the critical issues and concrete strategies to improve the education and success of Latino students.
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    Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): 2017-18
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2019)
    In the 1980s, leaders recognized a small set of institutions enrolled a large percentage of Latino students but had low levels of resources to educate these students. The classification of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) formally recognized these institutions for capacity-building and other support. HSIs are defined in federal law as accredited and degree-granting public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education with 25 percent or more total undergraduate Hispanic full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment. This report points out that in 2017-18, there were 523 HSIs located in 27 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. These institutions represented 17% of all institutions of higher education and enrolled 66% of Latino undergraduates.
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    Latino Adult Learners in Higher Education
    Excelencia in 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 factsheet provides a snapshot of Latino adults in higher education.
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    Latino College Completion: United States
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2014-04-01)
    To reach the degree attainment goal by 2020, the U.S. can: 1) close the equity gap in college completion; 2) increase the number of degrees conferred; and, 3) scale up programs and initiatives that work for Latino and other students. The fact sheet is a framework for tracking Latino degree attainment in the U.S.
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    Latino College Completion: United States
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2018)
    Latino degree attainment has increased significantly nationally and by state over the last 5 years. However, the United States needs to accelerate Latinos’ degree attainment to close equity gaps. Latinos have lower adult degree attainment compared to all adults and lower graduation rates compared to Whites in almost all states/locations. While all groups will have to increase college degree attainment, accelerating Latino educational attainment is crucial for the U.S. to meet its future societal and workforce needs.
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    Latino Faculty in Postsecondary Education
    Excelencia in 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 to the persistence and degree attainment of students of color. Latino faculty and all faculty of color also serve as role models and mentors for students of color, and can help those students improve in their academic progress. While Latinos represented about sixteen percent of all undergraduates, they only represented four percent of full-time faculty. This brief provides a summary of Latino faculty and their representation in postsecondary education.
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    Latino Males in Higher Education
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2016)
    This 2016 fact sheet profiles the status of Latino males in higher education. While college enrollment among Latino males continues to increase, they still lag behind Latino females in college enrollment — a disparity that increases as the level of higher education increases. Since Latino males represent more than half of traditional college-aged Americans, their college success will be vital to America’s future. Excelencia in Education, in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin, presented a webinar that convened leaders to discuss not only what they know, but what can be done to accelerate the success of Latino males in higher education.
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    Latinos in Higher Education & Pell Grants
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2017-06-01)
    Financial aid is critical to the access and success of Latinos in postsecondary education – 50% receive federal Pell grants to help pay for college. This factsheet provides a snapshot of Latinos and federal Pell grants.
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    Latinos in Higher Education: Compilation of Fast Facts
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2019-04-01)
    This report points out Latino educational achievement in the last 15 years. This compilation begins with an overview of Latino college students followed by Latinos in higher education along the following four issue areas: 1) affordability, 2) institutional capacity, 3) retention, transfer, and completion, and, 4) workforce.
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    Latinos: Aspiring, Applying and Choosing College
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2018-07-01)
    This report provides aggregated data on Latino students’ educational aspirations, applications to college, and college choices from The High School Longitudinal Study of 2009. This study is a nationally representative longitudinal study that began with freshmen in 2009 and has followed them through secondary and postsecondary years.
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    Pathway Programs: An Approach to Increasing Latino Student Degree Attainment
    Excelencia in Education (Excelencia in Education, 2017-07-01)
    Pathway programs align academic and student support services through transitions between educational institutions, which can increase students’ persistence toward degree attainment. This brief explores how pathways serve Latino students, and provides examples of programs.
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    Profiles of Selected Programs That Work for Latino Students in Higher Education 2006
    Excelencia in Education (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 information for thirteen additional programs identified as semi-finalists.