America’s Future, Latino Studentsand the Role of HSIs

Sarita E. Brown, Excelencia in Education

HSIAC 2007 Conference Houston, TX, April 26, 2007

Current Climate and Converging Challenges

Global marketplace

Changing Demography

Information Age

Legal and Public Debate on Affirmative Action

Why look at Latinos in higher education?

• 2nd largest racial/ethnic group… and growing• Youngest racial/ethnic group• Most undereducated

…our future workforce

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2005, Table 9

Hispanics 18 and over have lower levels of education than whites or blacks.

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Majority are:

•First-generation

•Enroll part-time

•Attend community colleges

•Commute to college (live off campus)

•Enroll at colleges close to where live

•Work (off-campus) while enrolled in college

•Do not complete college in the traditional path (enroll right after high school and complete degree in four years)

Why look at HSIs?

• Enroll over 50% of all Latino undergraduates

• HSIs as classification, funding vehicle, political construct

HSIs are defined by their Hispanic student enrollment—not their institutional mission—in federal law:

   accredited and degree-granting public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education with at least 25 percent or more total

undergraduate Hispanic full-time equivalent student enrollment. (summary of Title V of the Higher Education Act, as amended in 1998).

Defining Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)

Quick Facts on HSIsIn 2003-04,

• 236 institutions

• 6% of all degree-granting institutions

• Enrolled 52% of Latino undergraduates

• Awarded over 40% of associate or bachelor’s degrees to Latinos in the U.S.

HSIs are concentrated

Over 75% of HSIs are in 4 locations:– California (68)– Puerto Rico (52)– Texas (37)– New Mexico (23

Latino population has similar concentrations

A majority of HSIs are 2-year institutions

• Public 2-year: 46%

• Private 2-year: 8%

• Public 4-year or more: 20%

• Private 4-year or more: 26%

• Of all HSIs, 60% (140) had an open admissions policy – Admits anyone who applies

• Nationally, only 44% of degree-granting institutions had an open admissions policy

HSIs are accessible

HSIs are affordable

Public 4-year or above Public 2-year

  All Institutions HSIs All Institutions HSIs

In-state average tuition $ 3,400 $ 1,590 $ 1,977 $ 1,273

In-state fees per credit hour $ 153 $ 70 $ 73 $ 54

To be an HSI is to be at the forefront of change in higher education because of the change in demographics. We have an opportunity to be trend-setters where we have not historically been seen as an institution.

-Diana Natalicio, University of Texas at El Paso

Lessons learned from theproject series,

Latino Student Success at HSIs

What does it mean toacademically serveHispanic students?

LSS Project Series Central Question:LSS Project Series Central Question:

Findings

• Hispanic “serving” institutions do more than enroll Latino students; they actively promote Latino student success.

• Latino student success is broader than completion of the baccalaureate degree.

• Multiple measures of institutional effectiveness and incentives to institutions that help Latino students attain success are critical.

• Using the LSS Inquiry Model supports campus efforts to organize for student success.

Hispanic-serving Institutions are on the crest of a demographic wave in this nation. 

They are our laboratories for fostering Hispanic student success, and other colleges and universities will look to them for guidance and leadership.

Congressman Ruben HinojosaTexas, 15th Congressional DistrictChairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Life Long Learning and Competitiveness

 

Associate Level 2006 Example of Excelencia

 

Achieving a College Education (ACE) Programs

Maricopa County Community College District, Arizona

Stella Torres, Maricopa ACE Programs Directorstella.torres@domail.maricopa.edu

  

Models for Institutional ExcellenceThe University of Texas at El Paso, Texas

Benjamin Flores, MIE Program Directorbflores@utep.edu

 

DEADLINE April 30, 2007

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Excelencia SymposiumOctober 9-10, 2007

Los Angeles

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