Excelencia in the News

Despite automatic admissions, officials worry too many students aren’t seeking higher education. This might be why.

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber is now among a select group of higher education leaders to join Excelencia in Education’s Presidents for Latino Student Success based upon the University’s history of outreach and program support leading to Latinx student success. Charlotte is the only four-year university in North Carolina to be a member.

San Diego State University, a Seal of Excelencia certified institution, impacts our community every single day. Take a moment and look around you; you will find a neighbor, a co-worker or a family member who is an SDSU alumnus. From San Diego’s Pacific coast to the state line out east, people look to SDSU to prepare themselves for their careers, then stay here to live.

The global pandemic has affected students at every college, disrupting their lives and forcing some of them to drop out in order to earn money to keep their families intact. And that has driven Tomas Morales, the president of California State University, San Bernadino (CSUSB) and an Excelencia President for Latino Student Success, which also has a campus in Palm Desert, California, to take concerted actions to assist his students and help them get back on track.

A new bill introduced in Congress this week would grant $150 million to school districts and colleges, many of which are in the central San Joaquin Valley, to help Latino students go to college.

This year marks the first decline in more than two decades of the number of colleges and universities with at least 25 percent full-time Hispanic students, according to new data.

Despite automatic admissions, officials worry too many students aren’t seeking higher education.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was presented with the Seal of Excelencia for their efforts in helping Latino students achieve success.