In another keynote, League for Innovation in the Community College President and CEO Gerardo de los Santos outlined how the Hispanic population boom is changing the demographic landscape nationwide. He also spoke of the Achieving a College Education Program within the Maricopa County Community College district in Arizona, which seeks to ease high school students’ transition to college. De los Santos also spoke of a similar initiative within the League.
“The League for Innovation has finished a five-year initiative focused on easing transitions for students moving from high school to community colleges, as a means of trying to align curriculum, to decrease the level of remediation that students are going to have to take, and increase academic performance of students moving through the transitions,” de los Santos said.
“This program is helping to focus efforts on this important transition where a lot of students are lost and fall through the cracks,” he added.
For more on “Black, Brown & College Bound: Strategies, Best Practices, and Model Programs to Strengthen the Future of African-American and Hispanic Males,” see the Dec. 27 issue of Diverse.
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