Latinos Lag in College Completion, Report Says

Publication Date: 
Jun 22, 2011
Publication Title: 
University Business
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Only 16 percent of Latino adults have an associate's degree or higher - compared to 33 percent of the total working-aged population in Texas, according to a report by Excelencia in Education, a Washington D.C-based non-profit organization focused on boosting Latino success in higher education. The national average is 38 percent.