The Education Trust’s new mini-brief Intentionally Successful: Improving Minority Student College Graduation Rates reveals Hispanic college enrollment at four-year schools increased by 22 percent between 2009 and 2011. The increase in enrollment for non-Hispanic white students during the same timeframe was 2.7 percent.
Using college enrollment and graduation data from the U.S. Education Department, the study shows promise regarding bridging achievement and success gaps in higher education.
The Education Trust Director of Higher Education and Education Finance Policy Michael Dannenberg stressed success in college is not simply a function of student characteristics and high price does not necessarily equal high quality.
“What individual colleges do often can make all the difference in the world between a student graduating or leaving with a pile of debt and no degree,” Dannenberg said. “Demography is not destiny and what colleges do matters.” READ MORE
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