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Latino Student Eligibility and Participation in the University of California: Ya Basta!

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The statewide context that frames Latino Student UC eligibility and participation has been studied and the facts have become increasingly clear to the Task Force:

Latino students and families place great value in higher education.

Latino families are cohesive in spite of extreme poverty and growing urbanization.

Latino families are traditional but allow women to pursue higher education.

Latino students represent a large and growing population in this state.

Latino college students come from lower socioeconomic strata.

Latino college students come predominantly from public high schools.

Few Latino community college students transfer to the University of California.

Latino retention and graduation rates vary little from the UC average.

A downward trend is developing regarding Latino student participation in UC.

A corps of UC outreach programs substantially increase UC eligibility for Latino and other underrepresented...

Latino Student Eligibility and Participation in the University of California: Report Number Four of the Latino Eligibility Task Force

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Recommendations regarding the University's role in K-12 education

Latino Student Eligibility and Participation in the University of California: Report Number Two of the Latino Eligibility Task Force

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

School Outreach Recommendations: Traditional and Transfer Students

Traditional:

1. Hold accountable those who have responsibility for UC outreach and articulation.

2. Focus on the Students who live within commuting distance

3. Provide material in Spanish for parents

Transfer Students:

1. Establish "Step-toUniversity" programs

2. Expand strategically targeted outreach services in the communitycolleges

Latino Student Eligibility and Participation in the University of California: Report Number Three of the Latino Eligibility Task Force

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Report Three has two objectives: to review the knowledge-base on Latino students commissioned by the Latino Eligibility Study and to advise the Regents on policy to increase eligibility that emanates from what we know about Latino students' backgrounds, educational experiences and needs at the K-12, community college, and university levels.

The studies uniformly reject the deficiency framework where Latinos' educational failure, by and large, is attributed to some dispositional or cultural defect. Instead, all of these researchers test the alternative hypothesis - that structural barriers impede Latino students' educational achievement. The separate research studies are unified in showing how strategically considered programs and interventions do succeed.

The Task Force has begun analyzing the research studies as a whole in terms of the need for systemic and comprehensive reforms inside and outside UC to achieve a long-term increase in the eligibility and success...

Latino Student Eligibility and Participation in the University of California: Report Number One of the Latino Eligibility Task Force

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Less than 4% of Latino high school graduates are fully eligible for admission to the university compared to an overall overage of 12.3%. This profound underrepresentation distinctly threatens the economic and social fabric of our state and nation, especially because the Latino population is growing at a much faster rate than any other ethnic group. Present projections indicate that Latinos will be majority of high school graduates in California a decade from now.

Too often a complex phenomenon such as eligibility is understood on either naïve or imperfect grounds. This type of popular wisdom often reaches mythic proportions. Popular misunderstanding of Latino student eligibility and participation is a case in point. Thus, this report outlines a set of key myths about Latino students and their families and uses existing information to challenge those myths.

Even at this early stage of Task Force activities, there is a sense of urgency in calling for action on...