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
Since 2005, the Examples of Excelencia initiative has recognized programs and departments with evidence of effectiveness in accelerating Latino student success in higher education.
The newly released report, Florida Policy Options to Accelerate Latino Student Success in Higher Education, offers policy recommendations, based on recent research and discussions, to improve the educational attainment of Florida's workforce, with a focus on Latinos. This report specifies policy recommendations for higher education that can foster conversations with state legislators, public officials, education stakeholders, and college/university leaders to improve the educational attainment of all Floridians.
The invention of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the 1980s was predicated on the premise that institutions enrolling a large concentration of Latino students adapt to serve these students better. This brief identifies and examines Emerging HSIs -- institutions that do not yet meet the HSI enrollment threshold of 25 percent, but are within the range of 15-24 percent and have the potential to become HSIs in the next few years.
