Achieving LAtino Student Success (ALASS)
at Texas Border Institutions
Part of Excelencia’s Latino Student Success Project Series
Supported by TG's Public Benefit Grant Program
Excelencia in Education is supporting the work of campus presidents and their teams as they examine, benchmark and design plans to accelerate Latino student success at the following Texas border higher education institutions.
The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso Community CollegeThe University of Texas, Brownsville
Texas Southmost College
By July 2008 the following informational products will be produced:
- Campus Profiles: summaries of academic data, promising practices and affordability
- Campus acceleration plans
- Summary brief, Accelerating Latino Student Success at Texas Border Institutions: Possibilities and Challenges
Project Team
Sarita Brown, Excelencia President serves as project manager, and Deborah Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research directs data analysis and will serve as lead author for the brief. Supporting this project are Margarita Benitez, Chair of Excelencia’s EXITO Taskforce, and Estela Lopez, Excelencia Senior Fellow.
