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Atthe Hunter College graduation ceremony in New York in spring 2009, Hilda L. Solís, who spent four terms as a California congresswoman, gave the keynote speech. She related an incident that happened to her in high school in La Puente, Calif. At open school night, her guidance counselor told her mom that “Your daughter is not college material.
Pam Proctor adds that elite colleges are looking for a three-legged stool: top SAT scores; high GPAs; and one attribute, skill or experience that sets a student apart from the others.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org and author of a book due out this fall, Secrets to Winning a Scholarship, says that economic factors are playing an increasingly prominent role in determining which college students attend. “If they can’t afford the school,they won’t go – no matter how good the school is,” he stated.
“We’re trying to address that and work on it and have been working with different organizations to do more recruiting.” -- Helen Summers, Director of MBA Prep, Management Leadership for Tomorrow
The University of California (UC)-Riverside, a large institution with 20,746 undergraduates that is 35 percent Latino, takes graduating Hispanics very seriously. It relies on several success strategies, including first-year learning communities, creating Hispanic academic programs, developing an early-warning academic alert, and using data to retain and graduate larger number of Latino students than the norm.
In the fall of 1999, administrators at Texas Christian University (TCU), located in Fort Worth, Texas, met to devise a strategy to attract more African-American and Latino students. At that time, only 5 percent of its students were Latino; and 4 percent, African-American. After initiating a task force, TCU stepped up its efforts to diversify its campus.
“College Corps mentors are trained in how to understand and cope with issues that can arise for Latino students.” --William Collins, Director, Center for Educational Outreach, U-M
"Many graduates of the program work in hospitals, clinics, school systems, wound care centers and medical specialties."
Most executive directors of non-profit educational organizations burn out. It’s just an expected result of running an organization with limited resources and excessive hours.
"Frequently first-generation minority students who are often low-income don’t have the support systems that middle-class students rely on."
"Texas A&M University School of Law has attracted a 24 percent minority student body. In fall 2016, its 493 students were 72 percent white, 13 percent Hispanic, six percent African-American, three percent Asian and two percent bi-racial.”
Each participating community college, like Sierra College, Pepper-Kittredge noted, “will develop its own network of businesses, which will help drive what internships are available. These businesses will connect to suppliers, partners, businesses, at a local to global level,” she said.
