The word on campus: Spanish spoken here. Lawrence, Mass

“LAWRENCE — Walk down the halls of this community college, and you’ll probably hear Spanish. Students like Dominican-born Jeison King, 19, sit in lectures alongside classmates from Puerto Rico. Instructors like Emily Y. Ferguson Gonzalez go out of their way to give bilingual tutoring in biology or basic study skills. Whole families with first-generation college students come in to discuss financial aid options.

At this two-year college, nearly half of the student body is Latino. And those demographics have allowed the school to be designated by the US Department of Education as a ”Hispanic Serving Institution” — a designation usually given to universities in the Southwest.”

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