Co-Director for the Latinx/ Hispanic Center of Excellence for Social Work Practice/ Assistant Profes Rhode Island College
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of Latinx students who persisted to graduation at a HSI by examining how the participants successfully navigated the collegiate experience and how they described the institutional policies/practices that fostered or served as barriers to their persistence in college.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify Latinx college student enrollment trends and a brief history of the Latinx journey assessing higher education.
Upon completion, participants will learn what factors helped research participants persist to degree completion and what institutional factors served as barriers to degree completion.
Upon completion, participants will learn how higher education institutions can improve supports for Latinx students.
