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Technology industry? HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The increasing costs of college; barriers for working families, students of color, and fi rst-generation students attending colleges; and threats to a safe learning environment are just a few of the proposals now being considered by House and Senate committees working to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, which was last renewed in 2008.
Some proposals include a bonus to Pell Grant recipients to provide incentives for completion, making it simpler for students to apply for federal aid and pay their loans back and easier for colleges to cut through the jungle of bureaucratic red tape.
As Congress got ready to tackle the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act last fall, an Ed Trust report showed the need to prioritize completion rates for students of color.
The report, “A Look at Latino Student Success: Identifying Top- and Bottom- Performing Institutions,” indicates that nationally, the graduation rate for Latino students at four-year colleges and universities is 10 percentage points behind their White counterparts (53.6 percent and 63.3 percent respectively).
It concludes that eliminating the national completion gap between Latino and White students requires simultaneous work from our nation’s higher education leaders on three fronts: 1) closing institutional gaps between Latino and White graduation rates, 2) improving overall graduation rates at colleges and universities that enroll signifi cant numbers of Latino students, and 3) ensuring more Latinos attend selective institutions with high graduation rates.
“Far too many Latino students still don’t have access to the higher education they deserve,” said Andrew H. Nichols, Ph.D., Ed Trust’s director of higher education research and data analytics and the author of the report. All college and university leaders must take their responsibility seriously to provide students with the support they need to earn their degrees.”
About 15 percent of the four-year colleges in the study have extreme graduation rate gaps of 15 percentage points or more between White and Latino students, while others have unacceptably low graduation rates for Latino students. The report also found that when compared with institutions that have students with similar levels of academic preparation, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) have slightly higher graduation rates and smaller gaps.
“Our fi ndings make clear that colleges and universities have a lot of work to do if they want to fulfi ll their public purpose to serve as engines of social mobility for all students, including Latino students,” said Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D., vice president of higher education policy and practice at the Education Trust. “As members of Congress contemplate changes to the Higher Education Act, they need to take a close look at what successful colleges are doing and provide resources and a system of accountability to help lower-performing colleges get better at serving low- income students and students of color.”
While more Latino students are enrolling in four-year colleges and universities than ever before and graduation rates are on the rise, only about half of Latino students who start college earn a bachelor’s degree. Today, White young adults, aged 25 to 34, are two and a half times (43.7 percent vs. 17.8 percent) as likely to hold a bachelor’s degree as Latino young adults are.
Tyrone D. Taborn Publisher and Chief Content Offi cer
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