Growing Latinos In America

The Growing Latinos in America:
Making the Next Generation the Greatest
Working Resource Through Higher
Education

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Table of Content

· Introduction................................................................................................. 3
· Investing in Latino Education ...................................................................... 3
· Latino Trends, Barriers and Hope ................................................................ 6
· Taking Steps to Promote College Success .................................................. 8
· Finding an Approach – Fixing Higher Education........................................... 9
· Conclusion – A Plan for Action ..................................................................
But meeting the needs of Latino students requires more predictions.
The poor state of post-secondary education for Latino students is one of the
American nation’s most important challenges. “Right now, what’s happening is that we’re fixing our higher education institutions like we patch the blacktop on our roads, a pothole at a time”, said Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement if Teaching.
America has the opportunity to see all of their young people as the future of their country and more importantly, dedicate the same resources and attention to them that they have in the past generations. The time has come to effect a bigger change at the national level. Patrick Callan, of the
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, believes the situation calls for federal investment in education comparable to the Government Issue
Bill (GI):
American higher education was one of the great success stories in the second

half of the 20th century. What we need now is

something comparable to do

what we did with the GIs and the baby

boomers. We need to create a world