Immigrants enter college with appetite for success

Posted on: August 5th, 2006
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“About a year ago, Ruben Saenz noticed something different about the Hispanic freshmen entering Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch.

Many of them – the children of Mexican immigrants or immigrants themselves – “seem to value higher education more than those born here, and their grade levels are so much higher than native-born Latinos,” said Mr. Saenz, head of student development at the college.”

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