Excelencia in Education accelerates Latino student success, enhancing our workforce, leadership, and economy. Research Find out more about the latest lists of HSIs and recent drop in 2020-21. Find out more about Latinos’ past, current, and projected college enrollment in Excelencia’s latest analysis. Learn more about how 21 HSIs strategically used their CARES funding to intentionally support Latino students in Excelencia’s latest Medium post. Learn more about the context of higher education and institutional resiliency in Puerto Rico. Ensuring America's Future Cultivating Confianza: Excelencia in Education’s Trust-Based Approach to Latino Student Success frames how we can work together to intentionally SERVE Latino students, while serving all. Learn more on Excelencia's approach to mobilize and support institutions SERVING Hispanic students and the Seal of Excelencia. Find out about Excelencia's Technical Assistance Institutes scheduled through 2022. Learn more about Ensuring America's Future: Latino College Completion. What Works Excelencia recognizes 4 evidence-based programs that show intentionality in SERVING Latino students through Examples of Excelencia. Learn about Examples of Excelencia, the only national data-driven initiative to recognize programs accelerating Latino student success in higher education. Explore our Growing What Works Database, the only national database that identifies, informs, and aggregates evidence-based programs that work for Latinos and other students. Join Us Save the date to join us on September 29 and 30 to learn about the programs selected as the 2022 Examples of Excelencia and the institutions certified with the Seal of Excelencia in 2022. Stay informed by signing up to receive updates on releases, events, and opportunities with Excelencia in Education. NEW RELEASE - HSI Lists: 2020-21 What is included in Excelencia’s new release and how can I learn more using this analysis? Access Excelencia’s lists of the 2020-21 HSIs, eHSIs, and gHSIs. Learn more from Excelencia’s summary of HSIs, eHSIs, and gHSIs in the HSIs Fact Sheet. Visualize fast facts with Excelencia’s 2020-21 HSIs Infographic. Explore the 2020-21 data on HSIs in Excelencia’s new interactive dashboard. Learn more about the evolution of HSIs through Excelencia’s GIS StoryMap. Learn More Latino College Enrollment: Past, Current, and Projections Latino student college enrollment had been growing at an accelerated pace for more than 20 years, but in 2020 dropped significantly despite previous projections of continued growth. In this fact sheet, we provide a summary of past, current, and projected Latino student enrollment. LEARN MORE Seal of Excelencia 2021 In 2021, 10 trendsetting institutions earned the Seal of Excelencia certification and join a prestigious group of 14 Seal certified institutions in the county ensuring America’s future through their unwavering commitment to intentionally SERVE Latino students, while serving all. 2021 Seal of Excelencia Certified Institutions Cultivating Confianza: Excelencia in Education’s Trust-Based Approach to Latino Student Success The story of Excelencia in Education is one of intentionality and positive change. For 18 years, we have partnered with other trendsetting leaders across the country to accelerate Latino student success. We are now at a critical moment in history. Supporting and serving Latino students is crucial as a key to ensuring America’s future over the next decade. Cultivating Confianza: Excelencia in Education’s Trust-Based Approach to Latino Student Success frames how we can all work together to be more student-centered and achieve equity with a Latino lens. Click here to learn more Ensuring America's Future: Latino College Completion During these challenging times, Excelencia in Education remains committed to Ensuring America’s Future by increasing Latino college completion. Excelencia’s most recent analysis of public data on enrollment, degree completion, and degree attainment show that Latino student enrollment and degree completion continues to increase. Yet to close the equity gap in degree completion, the United States requires a tactical plan to reach the Latino degree attainment goal of 6.2 million degrees earned by 2030. This plan must include strategies to help Latinos accelerate degree completion while supporting increased attainment for all students. Learn More About Latino College Completion We're Closing the Equity Gap in Latino College Completion To close the national equity gap in degree attainment, Latinos will need to earn 6.2 million more degrees by 2030. Excelencia will help reach this goal by: Working with institutions to raise Latinos' degree attainment Informing and influencing educators and decision makers to increase Latinos' degree attainment Advancing evidence-based practices that support the success of Latino and other students Learn More Elevating Evidence-Based Programs that Accelerate Latino Student Success We celebrate programs accelerating Latino student success and bring attention to these programs for those committed to doing more for Latino students. Examples of Excelencia Examples of Excelencia is the only national effort to identify and promote evidence-based practices that help accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Through a year-long process, Excelencia identifies, reviews, and promotes programs at colleges and universities as well as community-based organizations. Learn more Growing What Works The Growing What Works database is an online and searchable resource for practitioners, institutional leaders, funders, and policymakers interested in evidence-base practices that accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Learn more Informing Policies with Real Outcomes Our research on Latinos students in education provides an understanding of Latinos' strength, growth, and opportunities for increased success. Five Factors that Influence Latino College Completion Enrolling Retaining Supporting Financially Modeling w/ Faculty Graduating Learn More