Colleges miss goals for Hispanic enrollment in Texas

“Texas is not on track to meet its goal for increasing college and university enrollment and must do more to persuade the state’s growing Hispanic population to pursue higher education, according to a report issued Thursday by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

More than 1.2 million Texans were enrolled in higher education this past school year, but enrollment only grew by 11,225 students between the fall of 2004 and 2005, the smallest increase in the five years since the state adopted improvement targets. Also, Texas fell more than 20,000 short of its goal to enroll 340,000 Hispanic students by 2005.”

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