June 15, 2001
Group Seeks to Raise Hispanic Enrollment
Local businesses and colleges should help develop outreach programs to raise the college-going rate of Hispanic students, who are less than a third as likely as white students to earn bachelor's degrees, according to a report released last month by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
The nonprofit group, which awarded $19.3-million in merit and need-based scholarships to Hispanic students in 2000-1, hopes to see the number of Hispanic college graduates nearly double by 2010. According to
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