And theres a paper forthcomingr for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for ie hispanics which actually shows e the way that hispanic students o choose colleges. If we believe that the ranking excuse me, the ratings system is a de facto ranking, which i, in fact, think it will become, we know hispanic students dont use rankings. In fact, around 16 of latinos cited in harrys own data, that rankings were an importantpa z factor in their choice process. So congratulations again to the authors an their paper, particularly nunez and rodriguez and thank you for having me. Mary beth . All right. Lets see. A i guess i need a microphone. Okay. So im responding to Silvia Hurtado and her colleagues paper. Im going to be short and sweet here because i am short and sweet. I thought id get that in there. So i really enjoyed silvias yed paper. I wanted i think its really. Important that you read this paper for a number of reasons. Wa one of the things i liked the nd most is in the ve
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
Federal money cannot chase the declines were experiencing so long. And that reorientation of the traditional bargain about the feds, the states, the institutions and families and philanthropy together paying for education is something that we need to improve. Fortunately, its been stabilizing in many states, and maybe we are moving in that positive direction. But the something that is overlooked, if we think about the danger side of an allocation that follows institutions that are effective in educating first generation underrepresented students, those who have who do, indeed, pose an educational challenge for institutions and whose graduation is the reason for our investing so much in student aid. We look at the negative side of who might lose. I would encourage us all to think about the Positive Side of having the information that would allow us to reinforce the resources and grow the resources to those institutions who have the kind of track record that many of you were talking abou
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