Study says Latino students don't get aid information: foundation pledges to increase outreach efforts.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. U.S. census projections, a quarter of the U.S. population will be of Latino origin by 2050. Latinos currently represent more than 13 percent of the population, but the percentage of Latinos who enroll in higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions is low compared with Caucasian Caucasian or Caucasoid: see race. and African-American students. A study last year by the Sallie Mae Sallie Mae: see SLM Corporation. Fund (www.thesalliemaefund.org) and the Harris Poll revealed that those groups with the greatest need for information were the least likely to get it. Overall, three out of four young adults not currently in college would have been more likely to attend cortege if they had better information about financial aid. The group that scored lowest was Latinos. Now, a follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan study conducted by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (available from www.trpi.org) indicates that the problem is widespread. "We found that Latino parents' aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl for their children to go to college are very high--about 95 percent--but the knowledge of how to move the child through the educational process is lacking," said Harry Pachon, president of TRPI, in a phone conference. "This is the largest survey ever conducted on Latino parents and Latino youth on the matters of financial knowledge regarding college," he said. Key findings of the study include: * More than half (51 percent) of Latino parents and 43 percent of all Latino young adults reported that they were unaware of even a single source of college financial aid. A comparison with the earlier Harris Poll findings (19 percent for all parents and 18 percent for all young adults) indicates that Latinos are considerably less aware of financial aid than the population at large. * Nearly three-quarters of Latino parents (73 percent) and Latino young adults (70 percent) did not name scholarships as a source of financial aid. * Eighty-six percent of Latino parents and 70 percent of Latino young adults did not name grants as a source of financial aid. * Eighty percent of Latino parents and 74 percent of Latino young adults did not name roans as a source of financial aid. * Two-thirds of Latino parents received no financial aid information before their children left high school. Interestingly, most Latino parents and young adults said they preferred to get financial aid information from an in-person meeting as opposed to more anonymous sources such as the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and printed materials. Nearly 30 percent also said they would like financial aid information in both Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. and English. In an effort to close the information divide, the Sallie Mae Fund announced it would expand its outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiatives to help raise awareness of financial aid access for Latinos. The organization will host 40 of its 135 "Paying for College" workshops in Spanish this fall, and will launch a 20-city bus tour to major Latino population centers, for other outreach initiatives. The Fund will distribute free educational materials on financial aid, in English and Spanish, to middle and high school guidance counselors guidance counselor Child psychology A school worker trained to screen, evaluate and advise students on career and academic matters and teachers across the country, as well as to college financial aid officers. And, in partnership with the Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere College Fund (www.hispanicfund.org), The Sallie Mae Fund has allocated $500,000 in scholarships for Latino high school students who are the first in their family to pursue a college education. Not aware of a single financial aid source Latino Parents 51% All Parents 19% Latino Young Adults 43% All Young Adults 18% Note: Table made from bar graph. Did not name scholarships as source of aid Latino Parents 73% All Parents 58% Latino Young Adults 70% All Young Adults 72% Note: Table made from bar graph. Did not name grants as source of aid Latino Parents 86% All Parents 62% Latino Young Adults 70% All Young Adults 65% Note: Table made from bar graph. Did not name loans as source of aid Latino Parents 80% All Parents 64% Latino Young Adults 74% All Young Adults 71% Note: Table made from bar graph. |
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