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Article: Colleges called on to help Hispanic students.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2000
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A presidential advisory commission on Hispanic education is calling on the nation's colleges and universities to revamp their strategies to help Latino students succeed academically.
While Hispanic college enrollment has quadrupled in the past 20 years to 3.6 million students, that boom has not translated into more students receiving undergraduate or graduate degrees, said members of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans yesterday.
"Once inside the higher education pipeline, too many Hispanic students fail to realize their potential," said Juliet Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville. ...