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Bunn Award (1999) $4 Discount on $12, $14.50 and $18.50 tickets for Texas A&M University faculty, staff and students with ID at Box Office. 8A Thursday, January 29, 2004 ^TiIhk THE IUTtT Hispanics boost enrollme in Western public schools lly Steve Giegerich THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 W4 ■g w Missal $ l ’ b With Hispanics graduating from high school in numbers that will keep increasing for years, the head of a higher education group that released a new report on the trend says colleges need to step up efforts to accommodate the nation’s largest minority. The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education projects that Hispanics will account for 21 percent of the country’s public high school graduates in 2008, up from 17 percent in 2002. The commission found that nearly 5 million Hispanics were enrolled in the country's public elementary and high schools in 1993-94. And by the 2007-08 school year, it projects that Latino public school enrollment will be about 9 million. “In general, colleges are still not prepared,’’ said David Longanecker, executive director of the interstate commission. Its report, “Knocking at the College Door,” is released every live years and is used by local school districts, states and higher education to track enrollment trends. “We know there is a relationship between race and income and academic pre paredness,” Longanecker said. “But we don’t have the support services in place to enhance the success that we need.” Using data compiled from the nation’s leading test-makers, the U.S. census and other sources, the WICHE study projects a sig nificant regional shift in the school-age population to the South and West that follows gen eral population trends. In 2007-08, Southern states are expected to enroll 16.7 mil lion students in kindergarten through high school. WICHE said enrollment in Western schools will be 11.9 million in 2007-08, followed Hispanic school enrollment rises 'Mse m h across (tie country while the number of non-Hapanics haj2?Hans t over the past few years. Public elementary and secondary school enroll^ 9. will Hispanic Non-Hispanic SOURCE Wottu ■illior financi m I “Oi lap ■tes. s Mmon Miss. Ird-a Anidk I The fere net sinnlai ■iswei u In order to help these students receive degrees you have to help them negotiate their work lives, their family lives, as well as their academic lives. — Richard Fry senior research associate with the Pew Hispanic Trust by 10.8 million in the Midwest and 9.3 million in the Northeast. Because of continuing gains in Hispanic enroll ment, the report said, white students will represent a minority of graduates from Western high schools in 2013-r4:*‘ j^V 1 . Although Hispanics enroll in college at almost the same rate as non-Latino students, they bring special circumstances to school Richard Fry, a senior research associate yw Pew Hispanic Trust. Hispanics are less likely to attend co|| ese «. ovis , time and are more likely to work M > they^Mj st( \ide financial support to dependents. Fry^Imderf “In order to help these students r f n in degrees particularly bachelor’s degr^B For also associate's degrees and vocational ct L cruc tials - you have to help them negotiateEyme work lives, their family lives, as well asjBeasui academic lives,” Fry said. ■ “A He said community col|(t ^ reat b particular, need to improve services for Hispanic stj! placed in remedial acadenn. ^ ls ' ne vocational training program rel T. Jaime Chahin, a scholar B lomas Rivera Center at I niversity in San Antonio, some schools, especially a Southwest, are making nj integrating Hispanic culture campus life. j But he said schools acrj country need to do a betterji] recruiting and retaining faculty members who can as role models for Hi undergraduates. The process of piu; Hispanics toward college degrees neay begin at the elementary school level, Hispanics should feel “that col novelty but is something that is expected, first-generation students who have exposed to these kinds of opnort Chahin. also a professor at SoutfiV . All tickets $15 at the door or $12 in ADVANCE AT THE HALL, BASKINS, AND CAVENDERS . TICKETS ON SALE NOW! F . 'X., i a ; : |\j fEtn . va 'X : All tickets $7 @ THE DOOR ♦ $1.50 CHE GOERS & $2.50 PITCHERS ♦ $1.50 LONGi\ECKS & $1.50 U-CALL-ITS TIL W 1 The Texas Hall oj Tame encourages you to drink responsibly and abMfi designate a driver. Free soft drinks to designated drivers over M