Just released results from a survey commissioned by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) shows the on-going, and perhaps growing, expectation gap between businesses and colleges. According to the survey, employers think colleges and universities can do a better job preparing students for the workplace. Based on the survey, only 7% of…
Jared Bernstein at On the Economy explains health care is the current and future economic engine. Check out this graph via On the Economy: Given the health care needs of Latinos in coming decades, all you aspiring Latino health care workers – you have your marching orders…
Forbes highlights the good work being done by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) in moving Latinos toward STEM careers. The article makes a key point: As Americans seem to be eschewing key white-collar STEM jobs too, now comes the next and most important chapter of the Hispanic immigration experience in America: how to…
Maria Martinlolich at College Diversity enlightens us about the importance of women on college campuses: When you saw the title of this post, I hope you weren’t thinking that this post is all about feminism. That’s the one mistake people make in regards to learning about women in college; people have the impression that people…
Council of the Great City Schools just released a study which outlines the many challenges facing Latinos educationally. Latinos lag behind Whites in most areas of education including college attainment: In postsecondary experience, the unemployment rate of the Hispanic population ages 20 and older in early 2011 was 12 percent compared with 8 percent of…
Mariko Chang at The Hill argues that college students will be challenged to pay off student debt, especially for Latinos and African Americans graduates. The odds of paying off college debt are much tougher for minority graduates, particularly Black men, who face far higher unemployment than their White counterparts. More than 25 percent of Black…
I’m always fascinated about why some communities make an effort to incorporate immigrants into their society while others do not, especially in education. The Toledo Public School District in Ohio, for example, is working with New Mexico Highlands University to provide Latino high school students the opportunity to attend college in other states; and the…
Judith Scott-Clayton argues that college is not as expensive as it’s thought to be. I’m in the process of buying a car – wish the same would hold true for car sticker prices: What has been buried in much of the resulting coverage is that while colleges’ published tuition and fees have indeed increased, these…
New America Media considers why the increase in Latino college enrollments has not translated into upward mobility. One researcher in the article notes: A two-year degree is an important step up, but it’s not the same as a four-year degree, which can open more (professional) doors for a student,” said Mehan, who also suggests that…
A study by Sam Houston State shows that only 20 percent of Latino students are “college-ready” in reading and math, compared to more than 50 percent of white students. While numbers are Texas specific – they’re probably similar to national ones. Several reasons were given for the low numbers including some insights from Latino students:…
