“…Educational Attainment and Enrollment (highest degree completed, ages 25 and older)
1980 1990 2000 2010 2015
High school graduate or less 78.4% 71.7% 69.6% 64.1% 61.4%
Two-year degree/Some college 13.9% 19.2% 19.9% 22.8% 23.6%
Bachelor’s degree or more 7.7% 9.1% 10.5% 13.1% 15.0%…”
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“…As the summer closes and college campuses across the country come roaring back to life, the demands for an academy that better reflects the full diversity of the student body and their own experiences will no doubt come center stage once again. Atop the list of pressing demands are calls for a more racially and ethnically diverse faculty. In the current political climate, where battles over identity and American culture have taken deep root, these demands cannot be easily dismissed and student impatience on the matter is only growing. Students, and the allies they have developed both on and off campus, do not intend to let allow administrative and academic leaders off the hook. The demands for a diverse faculty are growing and will further create division between the student body and university administration if they are not addressed in a more urgent manner…”
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“…The University of California has received criticism for not adequately serving Latinos, the state’s largest ethnic group, since affirmative action measures were banned from use in admissions decisions in California’s public institutions in 1996, The New York Times reports.
The university system’s newest campus, UC Merced, most closely resembles the diversity of California with an undergraduate Latino population of 53%. UCLA and UC Berkeley, the system’s flagship campuses, serve Latino populations of 21% and 13%, respectively…”
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“…Latino students with limited English skills and lacking a high school diploma will be able to attend a new, private two-year college in Chicago this fall that will help them get middle income jobs, according to Inside Higher Education…”
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“…According to data recently compiled by the National Science Foundation (NSF), six CSU campuses are among the top in the nation for graduating Latino students who go on to earn a Ph.D. in the sciences.
Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, San Diego and San Francisco are among the nation’s top 55 U.S. bachelor’s and master’s granting institutions for producing Latino doctorates in areas such as chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer sciences and biological sciences…”
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“…The University of California offered admission this fall to more transfer students than it has at any point in its history, officials announced Wednesday.More than 137,000 students were offered spots at one of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses, including roughly 28,750 transfer applicants, according to UC.California residents comprise the majority of the newly admitted students, making up 71,086 freshmen and 24,568 transfer students. The California freshman admission numbers rose by 1,114 students compared with last year’s numbers…
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“…Nearly every state has set, revised or adopted a degree attainment goal in the last few years, fueled primarily by projections that 65% of job vacancies will require some type of post-secondary training by 2020.
In most cases, however, these degree attainment goals do not focus on the various racial and ethnic sub-populations in each state, which the Education Trust’s senior director of Higher Education Research and Data Analytics, Andrew Nichols, said is problematic, particularly as the nation’s demographics continue to shift toward a browner population…
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“…Preliminary data from a San Francisco State University evaluation study demonstrates that students in ethnic studies majors graduate at approximately 20% higher rates than nonmajors. At the same time, students enrolled in at least one ethnic studies class also graduated at a higher rate than students not taking the class. According to a press release from the university, ethnic studies majors maintained a six-year graduation rate of 77.3% compared with a rate of 52.3% for nonmajors…”
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“…June 25, 2018) – Faculty in The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and Mexican American Studies Program are sharing their expertise with local teachers who are creating history and fine arts curriculum focused on Chicano/Mexican American content…”
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“…Latino students lag their peers overall
Latinos are the fastest-growing population in Arizona, and Latino students make up the largest percentage of students in the state’s K-12 public schools. However, Latino students lag their white peers in academic achievement across the K-12 education system and are underrepresented in postsecondary degree achievement.
Only 18 percent of Arizona Latino fourth-graders are proficient in reading, compared with 46 percent of white students. Only 20 percent of Latino eighth-graders are proficient in math, compared to 48 percent of white students…”
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“…A new report from the Education Trust examines degree attainment levels for blacks and Hispanics versus their white peers. It says that overall, gaps between degree attainment levels for Hispanic adults versus their white counterparts have grown since 2000, and Hispanic younger adults do not have much higher attainment levels than older adults — meaning there’s not the intergenerational improvement people like to believe there is.
There are notable differences in Hispanic attainment levels based on nationality and whether the individual migrated to the U.S. or was born here. According to J. Oliver Schak, one of the report’s co-authors, a majority of Latino adults age 25 to 64 were born outside of this country; those born inside the U.S. have a degree attainment rate of 30%, compared with 17% for those born outside of the U.S….”
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“…A new report from the American Council on Education said institutions historically servicing blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans and Native American Pacific Islanders propel students up the economic ladder at significantly higher rates than predominantly white institutions. Four-year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), the report said, propel students from the bottom income quintile to the top at a rate three times higher than non-minority serving institutions. Meanwhile, four-year historically black, predominately black and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions propelled students from the bottom to the top quintiles at double the rate of non-minority serving institutions…”

“…Ana Guerrero Gallegos, who is graduating with bachelor of art degrees in Chicana/o studies and in sociology, will receive the Luis Leal Social Sciences Undergraduate Award for outstanding interdisciplinary achievement in the social sciences. The award was established in honor of the late Don Luis Leal, a distinguished visiting professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, whose presence and scholarship greatly enriched the Santa Barbara campus…”
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“…Hello! My name is Christian Ortiz Gonzalez and I am a fourth year majoring in Sociology and German!
Academic year working for Career Services?:
2017-2018
Describe the different types of internship or job experiences that you have been involved with?:
I have worked for UCPD as a CSO, I worked as an RA for the EOP STEP program, I have been working at EOP as a mentor since my second year, I held an internship with UCSB’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and now I work for Career Services…”
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“Two San Francisco area colleges are experiencing increasing success from a program that fuses social justice topics into college prep curriculum as a part of outreach and development of high school graduates who are low income, first generation or in an unrepresented minority group. Inside Higher Ed profiles the Metro College Success Program, a bridge program offered at San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco that provides high school students learning tracks in more than 10 academic disciplines to sharpen learning skills while navigating financial aid and academic coaching…”
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