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Article: South Central Los Angeles: A Community In Transition.(Los Angeles Southwest College student population changing)
- Article from:
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 27, 2001
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LA'S SOUTHWEST COLLEGE SEEKS TO KEEP PACE WITH CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS
LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles Southwest College perhaps best illustrates the rising tide of Latinos and other minorities sweeping into higher education institutions of deeply steeped Black heritage, and of the challenges and new growing pains such schools face.
The community college is perched in Watts in South Central Los Angeles. In the 2000 fall semester, 78 percent of students were Black, and 19 percent Latino. Thirteen percent of Southwest College students reported Spanish as their native language. In 1980, 98 percent of the enrollment was Black, virtually what it was in its ...