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Tom Vilsacl said his agency is working to provide farmers pandemic relief money from the American Rescue Plan.

Earlier in 2021, higher education in the central mountain region earned an important designation only achieved by 10% of colleges in the U.S. — Colorado Mountain College is now a Hispanic Serving Institution.

Earlier in 2021, higher education in the central mountain region earned an important designation only achieved by 10% of colleges in the U.S. — Colorado Mountain College is now a Hispanic Serving Institution.

Earlier this year, higher education in the central mountain region earned an important designation only achieved by 10% of colleges in the U.S. — Colorado Mountain College is now a Hispanic Serving Institution.

Hispanic men attend and complete college at the lowest rates of any student group in Colorado. Elsewhere, colleges have designed ways to lift student success.

At places like the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State, just 58 percent of Hispanic men graduate. At Metropolitan State University of Denver, only one in five do.

Texas A&M University-Central Texas is now recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution. As 25.76% of the student body identifies themselves as Hispanic.

As Jill Biden made her way to the horticultural classroom at Arturo Velasquez Institute in Chicago’s Little Village on Wednesday, Evelin Favela, an apprentice in the program, was excited to

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