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How does Excelencia advance Latino student success in higher education?

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Latino Students are Key to Our Nation’s Prosperity

Increasing Latino degree attainment is key to our nation’s prosperity. Latinos, now making up about one in five Americans, represent the growing majority of college students today and face unique circumstances that institutions must address to support their success. This analysis explores the Latino student profile, how they pay for college, their degree attainment, their workforce participation, and the institutions uniquely positioned to serve them.
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Evidence-Based Practices That Work For Latino Students in Higher Education

Advancing What Works to Intentionally Serve Latino Students: Opportunities for Action - 2024 shows what is possible when programs and institutions meet student needs with intentionality. This publication curates 35 programs from over 200 programs in our Growing What Works (GWW) Database that serve Latino student success in asset-based ways.
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Finding Your Workforce: Latino Talent for a Global Economy

For 20 years, Excelencia in Education has served its mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education in order to address the country’s need for a highly educated workforce and civic leadership. This latest analysis builds on Excelencia’s previous Finding Your Workforce series and identifies the top colleges and universities conferring credentials to Latinos and preparing them for today’s global economy. This brief initiates a series that will provide lists of the top institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), health, and education, with examples of institutional efforts to improve Latinos’ college completion linked to these sectors.
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Finding Your Workforce: Latino Talent in STEM

This brief identifies the top colleges and universities graduating and preparing Latinos in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and highlights select evidence-based practices to increase Latino student success in these disciplines. It also calls on employers to establish common cause with institutions by providing strategies for institutions and employers to link Latino graduates to the workforce.
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Finding Your Workforce: Latino Talent in Health

This brief identifies the top colleges and universities graduating and preparing Latinos in health, and highlights select evidence-based practices to increase Latino student success in these disciplines. It also calls on employers to establish common cause with institutions by providing strategies for institutions and employers to link Latino graduates to the workforce.
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Finding Your Workforce: Latino Talent in Education

This brief identifies the top colleges and universities graduating and preparing Latinos in education, and highlights select evidence-based practices to increase Latino student success in these disciplines. It also calls on employers to establish common cause with institutions by providing strategies for institutions and employers to link Latino graduates to the workforce.
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Re-Release: Latino Student Success at Hispanic Serving Institutions: Findings from a Demonstration Project

This seminal brief, originally released in 2004, started shaping Excelencia in Education’s national agenda to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It examined the institutional leadership and practices that promote Latino student success at six HSIs in California, Texas, and New York.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What are Excelencia’s policy priorities for supporting Latino student success in higher education?

Excelencia focuses on four policy priorities: affordability, institutional capacity, retention, and workforce preparation for closing gaps in degree attainment and increasing educational and economic opportunity for Latino and post-traditional students in higher education.

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