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The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread Briefing

“Building Strategies That Improve Educational Outcomes for

Hispanic and Latino Students”

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Presenters

Arturo Martinez, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Pre-College and Bilingual Education

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Enrique E. Figueroa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director, Roberto Hernandez Center

Assistant to the Provost for Latino Affairs

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Luis “Tony” Baez, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Council for the Spanish Speaking

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Arturo Martinez Ph.D

Hispanic Access to Community College

A Hispanic High School Dual Enrollment Pilot Project

•Much growth in the Hispanic college enrollment has been at community colleges according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

•The National Center for Education Statistics found that 42 percent or more of

college students are underprepared at two-year institutions, and (about 50 percent of all firsttime community college students test as underprepared for the academic demands of college-level courses and programs and are advised to enroll in at least one developmental/remedial course

• While Hispanics continue to pursue a college credential at a community college, a high percent are also being required to enroll in a remedial developmental course before they enroll in a gatekeeper course that counts toward their degree program.

•Understanding this phenomena, the National League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in collaboration with the Ford Foundation in May of 2010 asked local chapters to propose innovative models that can help Hispanic students not only graduate from high school, but to also make the transition into a post-secondary education.


Building Strategies That Improve Educational

Outcomes for Hispanic and Latino Students

•Building strategies to improve the educational outcomes for Hispanic and Latino Students requires educational institutions, state policy makers, stakeholders and the community as a whole to align its support, its resources and to take different approaches from traditional models.

•In my view, creating new strategies starts when we look at the data, from a qualitative perspective and begin to ask WHY those results are happening.

•This forces us to re-think of new strategies or new program initiatives that can produce greater results.

In El Paso, Texas, the community college, the workforce board, the four year college, the community, and the local K-12 district all looked at the high number of high school students who were not transitioning into the community college, or its four year college.

As a group it was decided to collaborate as a team to create change to improve the number of Hispanic students who can transition into a college setting.


The LULAC, MPS, MATC-Dual Enrollment Program

Strategies that can improve educational outcomes for Hispanic and Latino

Students

• In Spring of 2011, MPS, MATC, and LULAC launched the “Driving Dreams Through Education” as a dual enrollment project to serve Hispanic high school students to earn 3 transferable college credits.

• A dual enrollment program allows high school students (juniors and seniors) to enroll in college course and earn college credits while still in high school.

•Dual enrollment programs are not new. California, Texas, Florida, and New York are among some of the states that have implemented dual enrollment programs providing high school students with an opportunity to enroll in courses at their local (usually community) college.

•In the past dual enrollment programs served typically high-achieving students seeking additional curricular opportunities during their senior year.

•Today dual enrollment programs can provide an opportunity for educators, researchers, and policymakers to view dual enrollment programs as educational strategies to broaden the range of students who can make the transition from high school to college.


Seven Stages and Steps for implementing a dual

enrollment program source: Dual Enrollment for High School Students –Career Academy Support Network

1.

Establishing Partnerships

2.

Regulations

3.

Choice of Dual

Enrollment Courses

4.

Course Logistics: Where, When, Who?

5.

Supplemental Activities

6.

Cost

7.

Promoting and

Sustaining Dual

Enrollment


Ford Motor Company Fund

“Driving Dreams Through Education”

The Partnership Structure

Driving Dreams Through Education

Dual Enrollment

Model

National and local LULAC

MATC- Milwaukee

Ford Foundation

Milwaukee

Public

School

South Division


Regulations

External Stakeholders

Local Community College

K-12 Local School District

• Ford Motor Foundation

• National and local LULAC

• High level administrative support – President, Deans, Associate Deans

• Pre-College Division Office of Bilingual Education

• State FTE policy

• High Level Administration-Superintendent, Chief Academic Officer

• Local school district staff, school policies. Parents, Students


The Design

Choice of dual enrollment courses

Eng 201

Eng 202

Eng 202

Sociology

Spring 2010 Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Outcome

15 credits

$1,700

2 or 4 year college transfer courses

Students

started

here Eng 201

Math

Pyscalogy

Sociology

9 credits

$1,100 Remedial

Developmental

no-program

credit course

Eng 151

Non-

gateway

course

Communication skills non-credit course

Communication skills non-credit course


The First Semester outcomes •Started with 12 students

•Two students dropped 10 students completed the course

•Grades –

•5 students got B+,

•3 students got a B,

•2 students got a C+

•Students were recognized at the National LULAC Convention held June 29-July 2, 2011.

•Program was featured in the National LULAC magazine

•Two seniors who completed the program have enrolled in an institution of higher education. One at UWM, and one at MATC.



Enrique E. Figueroa, Ph.D., Director,

Roberto Hernandez Center and

Assistant to Provost for Latino Affairs,

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

―Building Strategies That Improve

Educational Outcomes for Hispanic and

Latino Students‖ Presented at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread

September 20, 2011

Racine, WI

US Latinos—Education*, ‗09

--Less than 9th grade = 6.1 Million

--9th – 12th grade = 4.1

--HS Graduate = 6.8

--Some College = 5.8

--College graduate = 3.3

TOTAL = 26.1 *--Hispanics 25-yrs. or older

Source: 2009 American Community Survey


--Less than 9th grade = 23.5% [3.0]**

--9th – 12th grade = 15.5% [6.6]

--HS Graduate = 26.0% [29.3]

--Some College = 22.2% [30.0]

--College graduate = 12.7% [31.1]

*--Hispanics 25-yrs, or older **--Percentages for Whites, non-Hispanic



--Latinos = 1.6 million [0.9 in `00]

--Native-born = 1.3 [0.7]

--Foreign-born = 0.3 [0.2]

--Whites, non-Hispanic = 8.4 [6.3 in `00]

--Blacks, non-Hispanic = 1.6 [1.0 in `00]

--Asian, non-Hispanic = 0.8 [0.6 in `00]

--Other, non-Hispanic = 0.4 [0.3 in `00]

--TOTAL = 12.7 [9.2 in `00]

*--Enrolled in COLLEGES, ages 18 to 24



--Latinos = 1.1 million [0.9 in `00]

--Native-born = 0.7 [0.5]

--Foreign-born = 0.4 [0.4]

--Whites, non-Hispanic = 5.7 [5.2 in `00]

--Blacks, non-Hispanic = 1.6 [1.2 in `00]

--Asian, non-Hispanic = 0.7 [0.6 in `00]

--Other, non-Hispanic = 0.3 [0.3 in `00]

--TOTAL = 9.4 [8.2 in `00]

*--Enrolled in COLLEGES, ages 25 & OLDER



--Asians = 62%

--Whites = 43%

--Blacks = 38%

--Latinos = 32%

*--Percent Enrolled in College, ages 18 to 24

Source: Pew Hispanic Center, August, 2011

US Latinos—Education, ‗10

High School Completion Rate for

18 to 24 yrs. olds Latinos:

--2000 = 59%

--2010 = 72%



--Asians = 78%

--Whites = 73%

--Blacks = 63%

--Latinos = 54%

*--Of All Attending College, Percent Enrolled in four-year Colleges,

ages 18 to 24


Median Household Income, ‗10

--Asians = $64,308

--Whites = $54,620

--Blacks = $32,068

--Latinos = $37,379

Source: New York Times, September, 15,2011

US Latinos—Education???

--Latinos represent 21.1% of all 5-

to-17-yrs.-olds in our country,

what‘s their future like?

--What‘s the country‘s future like

if current Latino college

enrollment continues into the

future?


--For the 10.2 million adult

Latinos in our country that have

less than a high school

education, what‘s their future

like?

--What‘s the country‘s current

adult education capabilities?


--About 12.7% of Latinos 25-yrs.

and older have a college degree,

whereas 31,1% of non-Hispanic

Whites do—how difficult is it

and how long will it take to get

the Latino rate on par with non-

Hispanic Whites?

Building Strategies That Improve Educational Outcomes for

Hispanic and Latino Students

Johnson Foundation at Wingspread

Presenter: Luis “Tony” Baez, PhD

The Role of Parents and the Community to Improve Access to Higher Education by Latino Students

• The evidence regarding our children in the schools of U.S. is not very good

• We have not reach equity with others in society, the schools, and the democracy

• We want our children to be an integral part of society, its economy, institutions, and policy makers

• We continue to be in the pursuit of the good life

Why are we concerned?

How Parents and Families can Support Better Educational Results

• Advocacy: – Organize … organize … organize in schools, in the community,

on the job, and at the local, state and national level

– Cause learning institutions (schools, community colleges, universities and community-based centers) to respond to our concerns and expectations

– Cause policy-makers to respond with enlightened educational

supportive policies and resources

– Cause government and the private sector to produce sustainable jobs

• Cultural Character Building [In successful schools, it has been found that good academics are

not enough to prepare youth to go to college, unless parents, families and schools built character and persistence]

– Character is as important as intellect – Moral Character: integrity, fairness, and

humanity – Performance Character: grid; effort;

perseverance; self-control; optimism; curiosity. – Social Character: social intelligence, inclusion,

tolerance, diversity, social justice. – Build appreciation for language and

bilingualism

• Wrap Around Activities – Support and involvement in “during-the-day” and “after school”

programs

– Securing health related support activities and understanding of healthy environment

– Insisting in true Counseling (not only scheduling and prep for test) and psychological services

– Community service and internships (schools/colleges) – Wrap around programs and services by parents and community

– Increase presentations by community agencies in schools and colleges

– other

• After School Programs

– “Group Studying” during the day and after school programs

– Insist on both academic and character learning activities in after school programs

– Travel … parents need to support, promote, attend after school and summer trips

– After school programs cannot be supplementary job programs for staff

• Scholarships and Financial Support

– Parents & Community should be involved in scholarship development, especially for undocumented children

– Parents & Community must be watchful of financial aid policies and the outrageous costs of postsecondary public and private education

– Parents & Community should organize and/or participate in efforts to stop increases in the cost of education

• Community Sustainability & Jobs

– “Poverty” is at the center of poor performance in education and poor health in our communities

– Government/private sector must produce jobs that support & keep families healthy

– Huge Disparities in wage earning and health are not acceptable

– Run down and poor neighborhoods: Not Acceptable

• Organizational Infrastructure

– Parents/Community must belong to community-based organizations working for schooling improvements

– Our communities must return to the once “sociedades mutualistas”

– Develop organizations that target particular educational programs

– Force institutions to attain equity through formal complaints and litigation

The End

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