VOCES (Voices):
A Profile of Today's Latino College Students
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Background: With support from Lumina Foundation for Education, Excelencia in Education has spent a year engaging thought leaders, Latino students, as well as outreach and service providers in deliberative discussions about the impact of cost and affordability on Latino students’ pursuit of higher education. After analyzing the most current data about financial aid, college participation and college completion, Excelencia convened selected educational stakeholders to examine these data and share their perspectives about higher education’s capacity and commitment to support this generation of Latino college goers. We began by convening though leaders to discuss the findings from How Latino Students Pay for College and higher education’s capacity to serve Latino students.
The next group we convened was Latino students. In June 2007, Excelencia invited to Washington, DC, selected Latino students from programs sponsored by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and the Hispanic College Fund. Students participated in a focus group on higher education capacity and affordability and the following day, in a town hall style meeting on Capitol Hill. These events, combined with trend analysis about Latino college-going students serve as the basis for VOCES (Voices): A Profile of Today’s Latino College Students released in October 2007. This brief is designed to help service providers and colleges and universities better reach, and serve, Latino students and their families.
The larger project, Higher Education’s Capacity and Affordability to Serve Latino Students, continued with Excelencia convening national and Texas based service providers in September 2007 to share strategies and perspectives about the impact of current college access and financial aid information dissemination on Latino college- going students and their families. A summary of the strategies, measures of effectiveness and remaining challenges will be part of the summary brief to be released in 2008.
We invite you to listen to these students
Click on the images below to watch individual clips of each student or watch the complete video of the event.
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