Hispanic Roundtable Treasurer, Bill Fishburn, was recently featured in a University of Washington College of Engineering publication. We’re grateful for Bill’s help in creating a pipeline of underrepresented minority students for higher education.
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The 10th annual Latino Youth Summit is scheduled for November 20, 2012 at The Evergreen State College. Registration is FREE and open to high school students in Thurston, Lewis, Mason, Grays Harbor and Pacific counties. Sponsored by the Hispanic Roundtable
by Richard Fry and Mark Hugo Lopez
Source: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/08/20/hispanic-student-enrollments-reach-new-highs-in-2011/
The nation’s Hispanic 1student population reached a number of milestones in 2011, according to an analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. 2 Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation’s college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year (Fry, 2011). But as their growth among all college-age students continues to outpace other groups, Hispanics are now, for the first time, the largest minority group among the nation’s four-year college and university students. And for the first time, Hispanics made up one-quarter (25.2%) of 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled in two-year colleges. Continue reading Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011
Source: NPR, by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanic population growth and improved high school completion rates helped Latino young people become the largest minority group on college campuses and a fourth of the public school population last year, according to a Pew Hispanic report released Monday.
The center’s analysis of Census data shows more than 2 million Hispanics ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college last year, making up a record 16.5 percent share of enrollments in that age group at two-year and four-year universities.
Simultaneously, for the first time, one fourth of the pre-K through 12th grade population was Latino, the center said. Continue reading Hispanics Set School, College Enrollment Records