Archive for February, 2006

More than half of Latino students have family incomes of less than $25,000, and Latino youth enroll in college and complete college at lower rates than other students. (From Latino youth and the pathway to college.)

Sarita E. Brown, President, Excelencia in Education, thinks the high cost of college might be preventing the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population from gaining full access to college:

I attended the College Costs: Making Opportunity Affordable summit held in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2, 2005. Lumina Foundation deserves kudos for taking on the issue of college costs and for deploying its resources to build a constituency willing to meet the challenge of making college affordable. Yet, for all that the summit accomplished, it failed to bring appropriate attention to one critical issue: how college costs and available aid affect Latino students.

As many of you know, Bob Dickeson retired from Lumina Foundation last December. It was Bob who envisioned creating this space to discuss college costs—especially as we approached our November 2005 summit in Washington, D.C. Since we launched this site last September, more than 120 of you have subscribed to this blog, indicating your interest in this discussion, and many others have offered comments to Bob and guest bloggers. So, I’m going to pick up where Bob left off, and I hope that you’ll join me.