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Latina women and higher education - making it happen

by Dina M. Horwedel , September 24, 2007

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Dr. Sylvia Ramos, president of Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, was a first-generation college student, and says she didn’t allow her culture to interfere with getting an education.

In 2004, only 24 percent of Latina public high school graduates had completed the A-G curriculum, leaving 76 percent ineligible for admission into the University of California or California State University systems. HOPE is currently testing the curriculum in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Beginning in the 2008-2009 academic year, all incoming high school freshmen within the district will follow the A-G curriculum unless they have another preference. HOPE’s goal is to make the curriculum a graduation requirement for California high school freshmen planning to enter college in 2012. 

--Dina M. Horwedel

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