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Growing What Works Database

Learn What Works for Latino Student Success

The Growing What Works Database is online and searchable. It is a resource for practitioners, institutional leaders, funders, and policymakers interested in evidence-based practices that accelerate Latino student success in higher education. 

Search the database below to see programs that have been recognized throughout Excelencia in Education’s 20 years of service for making a positive difference in Latino student success, including those recognized in 2024 as Examples of Excelencia and Finalists for their intentional and culturally relevant evidence-based practices.

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College and Career Success

College and Career Success

Breakthrough’s mission is to build a path to and through college for students who will become the first in their families to earn a college degree.

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Community Fellows Program of the Community-Based Learning Program

CBL integrates academic and experiential learning to support community programs and organizations.

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Community Scholars Program

The Community Scholars Program seeks to provide support to first-generation college students.

Compact for Success

Compact for Success

Compact for Success guarantees students admission to SDSU through meeting the Compact for Success admissions requirements.

Growing What Works Database program

Con Mi MADRE

Con Mi MADRE aims to empower young Latinas and their mothers through education and support that increase preparedness and success in post-secondary education.

Growing What Works Database program

Conexión Américas' College Success Program

Conexión Américas’ program helps first-generation immigrant and refugee students in Nashville complete college and impact their families' long-term success.

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Colorado Diversity Initiative

CDI aims to increase the number of STEM doctoral scholars from underserved groups both at CU Boulder and nationally.

Community Health Worker

Community Health Worker

The Community Health Worker program aims to provide educational access to Latino adult learners on Chicago's southwest side.

Compact Scholars Program

Compact Scholars Program (CSP)

CSP provides undergraduate students the opportunity to cultivate a sense of identity in connection to their academic work and community.

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Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI)

CAHSI’s mission is to grow and sustain a networked community committed to recruiting, retaining, and accelerating the progress of Hispanics in computing.

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Concurrent Enrollment Program

The goal of the Concurrent Enrollment Program is to work with individual faculty to transform the department and the practices used by faculty.

Connect4Success - Miami Dade College

Connect4Success - Miami Dade College

The program establishes a guided transfer pathway that facilitates the admission of MDC Associates of Arts degree graduates to FIU baccalaureate programs. 

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