Inside Higher Ed :: Bienvenido in Cicero, Ill.

Conversations in the hallway are the same. “Cómo estás?” “Pretty good, pretty good.” Diaz flips from English to Spanish effortlessly, all day long. Had there been a greeting desk at this community college 25 years ago, there would have been little need to accommodate the 6.6 percent of Morton students who were Latino. Even a decade ago, Latino students were still less than half of the college. Today, Morton has 5,162 students, a 30 percent enrollment jump from just last year. And Latino students, primarily of Mexican descent, are now 74 percent, up from 60 percent last year, of a college that is learning, like Diaz, to switch between English and Spanish all day long.

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