The gap in college degree completion between Latinos and their white peers has increased since 2018, according to analysis published by Excelencia in Education.
Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileChallenges around the higher education landscape and concerns over college affordability are making it harder for more Latinos to get a degree.
While graduation rates for Latino students have remained relatively unchanged for nearly five years, the graduation rates of white students increased over the same period, effectively widening the gap in college degree completion. At two-year institutions, the graduation rate for Latino students was 5 percentage points lower than that of their white non-Hispanic peers. At four-year institutions, it was 13 points lower.
This means that colleges and universities already grappling with challenges around the higher education business model and the cost of going to college won’t be able to hit their enrollment and graduation goals without Latinos, particularly considering that the nation’s student population is increasingly becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, saidAccording to Santiago, it's important to ensure that"while everybody is increasing, that Latinos are accelerating, so we can really...
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