Advancing to Completion: Increasing Degree Attainment by Improving Graduation Rates and Closing Gaps for Hispanic Students

Autor/inn/en	Nguyen, Mary; Bibo, Erin Ward; Engle, Jennifer
Institution	Education Trust
Titel	Advancing to Completion: Increasing Degree Attainment by Improving Graduation Rates and Closing Gaps for Hispanic Students
Quelle	(2012), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Hispanic American Students; Minority Group Students; Graduation Rate; College Graduates; Private Colleges; Public Colleges; Trend Analysis; Educational Trends; Benchmarking; Achievement Gap; White Students; Disproportionate Representation; Educational Attainment; Statistical Data + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Privathochschule; Trendanalyse; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut
Abstract	This study updates previous Education Trust briefs that looked at public, four-year colleges that successfully improved minority graduation rates and narrowed graduation-rate gaps. This new report examines which four-year, nonprofit colleges--public "and" private--have made the most improvements for Hispanic students. Because for-profit institutions are a distinct subset of colleges, the authors have explored trends in their outcomes in a separate report. In a companion brief, they profile colleges that have made the most progress for another important group of underrepresented students: African Americans. By highlighting this diverse set of institutions, they find that: (1) Institutions can benchmark their progress toward producing more degrees in two ways: Some colleges can focus on making gains in graduation rates for their Hispanic students, while others can focus on closing gaps between Hispanic students and white students; (2) The starting point doesn't matter: Progress is possible for all types of institutions. Some can start by making substantial gains in graduation rates, while others can sustain previous progress made; still others can narrow gaps between Hispanic students and their white peers even if they've had large gaps in the past; and (3) Only when colleges institutionalize the policies and practices that make programs for underrepresented students successful will they bring about a transformative process that benefits all students, and Hispanic students in particular. (Contains 5 figures, 6 tables and 22 notes.) [For related report, "Advancing to Completion: Increasing Degree Attainment by Improving Graduation Rates and Closing Gaps for African-American Students," see ED535504.] (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10