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Universities and colleges have historically not done well at enrolling Hispanic students. Now their continued success may depend on it. Nearly 1 in3students in kindergarten through 12th grade is Hispanic, the National Center for Education Statistics reports. That’s up from fewer than 1 in 4 a decade ago.

That makes these young people — often the children or grandchildren of immigrants, or immigrants themselves — newly important to colleges and universities, which have historically not managed to attract as many Hispanic students as they have students from other racial backgrounds. READ MORE AT GOVERNING

The road to higher educational attainment runs through every Hispanic household in America. With a population of 63.7 million, Hispanics are the country’s largest minority group, and today one in every five students in higher ed is Hispanic. The Lumina Foundation-Gallup study conducted last year found that about one in four Hispanic students say they frequently or occasionally experienced discrimination, harassment, and disrespect and felt unsafe as they pursued their educations. READ MORE AT FORBES

In 2021, nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States held advanced degrees such as master’s degrees or doctorates. This represented a huge increase over 2000, when 710,000 Latinos held advanced degrees. The shift reflects Latinos’ broader increase in postsecondary enrollment and rising educational attainment.

Despite the large increase in the number of Latinos with advanced degrees, they accounted for just 8% of all advanced degree holders in the U.S. in 2021 .READ MORE AT PEW RESEARCH CENTER