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By the year 2025, nearly one-quarter of the nation’s college-age population will be Latino, but not enough are earning college and university degrees. To ensure the high caliber of tomorrow’s workforce and civic leadership, Excelencia in Education links research, policy, and practice to inform policymakers and institutional leaders who in turn promote policies and practices that support higher educational achievement for Latino and all students. Learn More

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Examples of Excelencia

Examples of Excelencia is the only data-driven initiative to recognize programs and departments with evidence of effectiveness in accelerating Latino student success at the associate, baccalaureate, and graduate levels.

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October 2 on Capitol Hill to recognize the 2012 Examples of Excelencia at the 2012 Celebración de Excelencia Learn More

October 3 at the Park Hyatt Washington for the Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) Workshop Learn More

Ensuring America's Future (EAF)

Video Primer - Ensuring America's Future by Increasing Latino College Completion


The evidence is clear. America cannot become the world leader in college degrees by 2020 or have the globally competitive workforce of the future without a tactical plan for increasing Latino college completion.



In response, Excelencia in Education and partners in 7 sectors have coalesced to work to increase Latino college  completion. Learn More

Finding Your Workforce: The Top 25 Institutions Graduating Latinos in Health Professions and Related Programs by Academic Level

 

Finding Your Workforce: The Top 25 Institutions Graduating Latinos in Health Professions and Related Programs by Academic Level is the second and most recent brief in the Finding Your Workforce series.

Given the aging of the overall U.S. population and the relative youth of the Latino population, increasing the number of Latinos with postsecondary credentials in health professions and related programs is key to meeting the country’s projected workforce by 2020.

Download pre-publication PDF

Download press release

Finding Your Workforce links college completion and the workforce. Future briefs will examine Latino college completion in science; technology, engineering, and math (STEM); business; liberal arts; and education.  Learn More

Made possible with support from: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation for Education, Ford Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation. Learn More

Latino College Completion in 50 States Executive Summary

 

To inform and support state-level, institutional and community actions to increase Latino college completion, Excelencia profiles all 50 states and provides research-based fact sheets on the status of Latino college attainment in the context of current state and national data.

Download Executive Summary

Download April 2012 press release

Download National Fact Sheet on Latino College Completion

Review 50 State Fact Sheets on Latino College Completion

 

New Analysis: Hispanic-Serving Institutions

HSIs 2009-2010 (Hispanic-Serving Institutions)

• Essay, Creating a List of
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
• List of 2009-10 HSIs
• Fact Sheet
• List of HSIs with Graduate Programs
• List of Emerging HSIs

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Released with support from USA Funds

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