Latino Students and the College Completion Agenda

With federal, state, institutional and foundation efforts in higher
education increasingly focused on completion rates, a key factor will
be the ability of programs and policies to raise the rates for Latino
students.

On Tuesday, July 27, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Sarita E. Brown,
president of Excelencia in Education and one of the leading national
experts on Latino students and higher education, will lead an Inside Higher Ed audio conference. She will present information on how institutions can evaluate their current success at educating Latino students, and how they can improve. The program is designed for all kinds of institutions -- public and private, two-year and four-year, those with large Latino populations and those with relatively few Latino students.

Among the topics she will cover:

• How to find and use tools for looking at institutional data to see how your college is doing.
• How to create a campus team to encourage progress.
• How to reach potential Latino students and their families.
• How Latino students use financial aid.
• How to improve Latino completion rates and why they matter so much to larger efforts to graduate more American students.

The program will feature a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute question-and-answer period. The entire program will last one hour.

The conference is ideal for:

• Academic affairs
• Admissions
• Diversity offices
• Student affairs
• Institutional research
• Financial aid

This audio conference, "Latino Students and the College Completion Agenda," costs $199 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. (Institutions wishing to have multiple people participate from separate locations may need to purchase additional lines.) Register early -- through Friday, July 9-- and the cost is only $149. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed information about how to dial in. The day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with the presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate.

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About the presenter:

Sarita E. Brown is president of Excelencia in
Education, a nonprofit organization she co-founded in 2004 to
accelerate Latino success in higher education. Her career has included
efforts based on campuses and in Washington. At the University of
Texas at Austin, she helped build a national model for promoting
minority success in graduate education. In Washington, she was
executive director of the White House Initiative for Educational
Excellence for Hispanic Americans during the Clinton administration.

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