ALASS: Accelerating Latino Student Success at Texas Border Institutions: Possibilities and Challenges
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New report examines enrollment and graduation trends at eight Texas institutions, highlights promising programs and strategies for serving Latino students, and offers policy recommendations for improving success rates for the state’s Latino students. The analysis was prepared as part of Excelencia’s Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) project, supported by TG, a Texas-based nonprofit corporation that administers the Federal Family Education Loan Program. ALASS Facts
National Importance (PDF): Across the nation, states are facing challenges to assure adequate capacity, to preserve or enhance educational quality, and to respond to rapidly changing student bodies. Texas, as a state with a majority-minority, is at the national forefront of this demographic shift in the K-20 population.
State Importance (PDF): The eight Texas border institutions that participated in the Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) at Texas Border Institutions project are of vital importance to Texas.
Affordability (PDF): These institutions have committed to increase the absolute number of Latino students participating and succeeding at their campuses, and are also working to maintain their access and affordability for all prospective students.
Campus Acceleration Plans (PDF): The ALASS institutions are all public institutions and chose to use existing data and targets from the Closing the Gaps by 2015: The Texas Higher Education Plan goals to create acceleration plans that leveraged their investments and benchmarked their contributions to the state’s on-going effort to increase the participation and success of Latino students in Texas higher education.
