About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, thank you very much greta. Its a pleasure to be with you today and i appreciate the fact that youre doing this service to educate students and the public at large about the importance of Higher Education. The university of nebraska system as four campuses, one of which is the university of nebraska lincoln, which is a big ten school. It has a little over 25,000 students. There are 51,000 students in the entire system. And that actually represents record enrollment for us. And the cost of an educ
Lack of success in texas. The first is growing latino demography. Latinos compromise majority of all Public School students. The problem is not the demography but the growth in High School Graduates is not translating to enrollment in colleges and universities. With black students it is a slightly different story. We have seen an increase in enrollment for the black population. That is worth praising but this enrollment has not translated into completion. It is a very clear example of how success on one side of the pipeline does not translate to the other side. Instead we see that from my analysis in the previous paper said black students are going to Community Colleges as a First Choice Institution which is likely to decrease odds of College Completion. There is a racial achievement gap. You see sixyear Completion Rate is difference between white and hispanic students is 13. 1 14. 1 . With black and white students 21. 9 Percentage Points between white and black students. We then start
Thank you for the opportunity to be here. My particular paper is coauthored with Wilda Rodriguez who could not be here today. We focused on how the shortcomings of a post secondary ratings system could lead to shortchanging hispanicserving institutions and their outcomes. So as Todays Research and other Research Indicates there are well documented differences in student and institutional characteristics between hsis and nonhsis that would lead hsis to have lower Graduation Rates on average than nonhsis. And so our analysis at the beginning of this paper in the previous session we talked about the possibility of adjusting for some of these student and institutional characteristics. And so in fact at the beginning of our paper, we find that when we account for student characteristics, Financial Resources of institutions, policies at institutions that might influence completion, whether or not an institution has an open admissions policy, that the gaps in Graduation Rates, since thats the