The Washington, D.C.-based organization, which focuses on accelerating higher education success for Latino students, found that HSIs enrolled 62 percent of all Latino undergraduates in the U.S. and that these institutions are concentrated regionally as more than two-thirds of all HSIs are in California, Texas or Puerto Rico.
In 1994, the Higher Education Act defined an HSI as accredited and degree-granting public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education with 25 percent or more total undergraduate Hispanic full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment.
“Accelerating Latino student success requires better understanding the institutions where students are choosing to enroll,” said Excelencia President Sarita Brown, whose group has been statistically tracking HSIs and providing analysis since 2004. “(This) release is part of an unprecedented body of data on HSIs we continue to analyze in conjunction with institutional practices, policies and leadership that serve students’ academic aspirations and increase degree completion.“
Among the other findings:
