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For-profit Institutions and What Public Institutions Can Learn in Reaching Out to Latinos

by Deborah Santiago, February 5, 2010

For-profit institutions of higher education are viewed with disdain by many in higher education. I find them intriguing. Tracking the growing enrollment patterns of Latinos in higher education, it is also obvious that Latinos are more open to the opportunities presented by these institutions than other groups. As a policy analyst,

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For-profit Institutions and What Public Institutions Can Learn in Reaching Out to Latinos

by Deborah Santiago, February 5, 2010

For-profit institutions of higher education are viewed with disdain by many in higher education. I find them intriguing. Tracking the growing enrollment patterns of Latinos in higher education, it is also obvious that Latinos are more open to the opportunities presented by these institutions than other groups.  As a policy analyst,

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Putting Priorities and Expectations in Perspective

by Deborah Santiago, January 22, 2010

  How do you prioritize higher education when you are struggling to survive and provide for your own family? The recent devastation in Haiti is a vivid reminder for me of this reality. In Haiti, as in many impoverished Latin American countries, survival is the priority, not college.  We can pontificate all

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In the Heights of Higher Education

by Deborah Santiago, January 13, 2010

For the new year, I finally went to see the musical "In the Heights" in New York. "In the Heights" won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical and its storyline focuses on Latinos and college-going.  The story revolves around a small community in Washington Heights, N.Y., where various Latinos all

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Completion By Design or By Chance?

by Deborah Santiago, January 6, 2010

Completing college should not be synonymous with a "roll of the dice," but too often it is. How many of us were asked during college orientation to look to the left and right of us, because only one of the three of you was going to make it to graduation?

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