Excelencia in Education accelerates Latino student success, enhancing our workforce, leadership, and economy. Ensuring America’s Future: Latino College Completion 2023 Increasing Latino college completion is key to future prosperity Excelencia’s 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 shows that degree completion gaps have increased between Latino students and their White peers. To close the 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. Stay Informed Our Tactical Plan for Latino Student Success How does Excelencia advance Latino student success in higher education? Inform Excelencia uses a Latino lens to inform and compel action to serve Latino students. Promote Excelencia brings attention to what works to improve Latino student success. Organize Excelencia organizes leaders with a common cause of accelerating Latino student success. Advocate Excelencia advocates for action and investment that intentionally serves Latino students. Seal of Excelencia Certified Institutions Announced Nine institutions earned the Seal of Excelencia in 2023 and five institutions were recertified to be a community of 39 trendsetting colleges and universities intentionally serving Latino students. An institution earns the Seal certification by demonstrating alignment across the three core areas of data, practice, and leadership. These institutions joined in common cause to ensure America’s future through their unwavering commitment to intentionally SERVE Latino students, while serving all. View the video of the announcement 2023 Examples of Excelencia Announced Join us in elevating the programs recognized for their intentional and culturally relevant evidence-based practices demonstrating success for Latino students: - Engineering Program at Wright, City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright College (IL) - Associate Level - Spanish Community Translation and Interpreting Program, The University of Texas at Arlington (TX) - Baccalaureate Level - Graduate Equity Fellowship Program, California State University, Chico (CA) - Graduate Level - College and Career Success, Breakthrough Central Texas (TX) - Community-Based Organization Level Learn more about all of this year’s recognized programs, including the 19 Finalists and 8 Programs to Watch. HSI Lists: 2021-22 What is included in Excelencia’s new release and how can I learn more using this analysis? Access Excelencia’s lists of the 2021-22 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 2021-22 HSIs Infographic.Explore the 2021-22 data on HSIs in Excelencia’s new interactive dashboard.Learn more about the evolution of HSIs through Excelencia’s GIS StoryMap. Learn More Latest from Excelencia Excelencia What Works For Latino Students In Higher Education Compendium Since 2005, Excelencia in Education has led the Examples of Excelencia, the only national data-driven initiative that recognizes programs at the associate, baccalaureate, and graduate level as well as at community-based organizations that are using evidence of effectiveness to accelerate Latino student success. CLICK HERE to view the 2023 Compendium. Excelencia on Medium: Funding America’s Future: Larger Endowments Could Help HSIs Further Accelerate Latino Student Success Endowments are important resources that provide institutions with opportunities to invest in students and programs. Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are less likely to have an endowment compared to other colleges and universities. For HSIs that do have an endowment, their funds tend to be smaller than those at other institutions. Our new analysis explores endowments at HSIs and what it means for investing in students.Learn More Beyond an HSI Designation: Exploring Strategic Practices for HSI Grant Participation Excelencia in Education collaborated with six HSIs to understand their strategic practices with participating in competitive federal grant programs. Institutions shared their current strategies for preparing federal grant applications, how they have leveraged federal funding to advance and sustain institutional efforts, and what it means to them to be an HSI. Learn more about how these six HSIs apply for and utilize federal funding to serve their Latino students.Learn More Latinas at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) The Latino population in the United States has grown significantly over the last decade, and Latina representation has grown more quickly than Latinos. This factsheet provides an overview of the Latina population, as well as the college enrollment and educational attainment of Latinas at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) — a critical set of institutions enrolling and graduating Latinos in the U.S.Learn More Excelencia on Medium: Resilience: Surviving, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding in Times of Trouble Rafael Ramírez Rivera, Acting President of Inter American University of Puerto Rico, shares his definition of institutional resilience and lessons that U.S. mainland institutions can learn from Puerto Rican universities when it comes to surviving, stabilizing, and rebuilding in times of trouble in the wake of Hurricanes Irma, Maria, and Fiona, an unprecedented series of earthquakes, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Learn More Expand Your Knowledge with Excelencia How does intentionally SERVING Latino students benefit our society? Latinos are a young, fast-growing population, yet degree completion gaps have increased between Latinos and their White peers. Excelencia’s analysis shows that closing the gap in degree completion by accelerating Latino student success will strengthen America’s workforce and civic leadership. See Our Analysis How can we inform educational practice and policy to facilitate positive change on behalf of Latino students? Excelencia’s research provides a basis of information on the status of Latino students in higher education from which to compel positive action by institutional leaders and measure progress toward accelerating Latino student success. From Latino enrollment and workforce participation, to how Latino students pay for college, to mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), this research informs and compels action. Explore Our Interactive Dashboard What works to improve Latino degree attainment and how can we expand these practices? In 2005, we initiated Examples of Excelencia — the only national effort to recognize and promote evidence-based practices promoting Latino student success. We have celebrated over 350 programs making a difference, all of which are featured in our Growing What Works Database. Explore Our Database How does Excelencia catalyze institutional transformation that produces meaningful results for Latino students? In addition to building our action-oriented network of Presidents for Latino Student Success, our technical assistance opportunities and Seal of Excelencia certification support and reinforce institutional capacity to intentionally SERVE Latino students using comprehensive strategies that align data, practice, and leadership. Discover the Seal What are Excelencia’s policy priorities for supporting Latino student success in higher education? When it comes to closing equity gaps in degree attainment and increasing educational and economic opportunity for Latino and post-traditional students in higher education, Excelencia focuses on four policy priorities: affordability, institutional capacity, retention, and workforce. Review Our Policy Agenda
