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Excelencia’s Policy Agenda: Retention and Transfer

Excelencia in Education

June 2025
Excelencia’s Policy Agenda: Retention and Transfer
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Overview

Latino students fit a post-traditional learner profile and are more likely to take multiple paths through higher education, often balancing work, family, and financial responsibilities. Students’ decisions to pause or change institutions are typically driven by life circumstances, not academic ability. Policy must support seamless transitions and degree completion. Excelencia in Education prioritizes:

  • Strengthening Transfer Pathways: Expanding credit transfer agreements and articulation policies that ensure students don’t lose time or credits when transitioning between institutions.

  • Supporting Proactive Student Support Systems: Encouraging institutions to adopt advising, coaching, and financial aid structures that recognize the realities of Latino students and provide tailored support to keep them on track.


 

How can policymakers support access to excellence through a variety of education pathways?

  • Make transfer efforts an allowable activity for Higher Education Act Title V, Part A, (Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program) grants. 

  • Update federal data to more accurately capture Latino students’ pathways and how federal funding impacts Latino student success. 

  • Strengthen partnerships between higher education institutions and high school districts for high-quality dual enrollment programs. 

  • Provide financial incentives to institutions to retain Latino students on their path to graduation.

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