EXITO Task Force

While Hispanics remain significantly underrepresented at all levels of educational attainment there are encouraging trends, promising practices, and successful academic outcomes for Latino students to be found across the country. The EXITO Task Force (Excellent Ideas Transform Outcomes) will review, document and summarize current research findings that pertain to Latino student success, as well as promising institutional practices, and academic support models that yield consistent and measurable outcomes of Latino student achievement.

The EXITO Task Force is made up of leading practitioners and researchers on access to excellence in higher education in general, and of Latino student success in particular.

Among the issues the Task Force will address are:

• Review of recent research pertinent to Latino student success
• Review of institutions with consistently high Latino graduation rates
• Identify successful institutional pathways including
• Community colleges to four-year institutions
• Four-year institutions to graduate and professional institutions
• Recognize programs effective in increasing Latino achievement in higher education