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
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
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
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