Hispanic students often experience discomfort as they enter institutions of higher education. Designed to increase their comfort and success, a new program at the University of Texas at El Paso offers English-Spanish background students opportunities to excel in both languages and helps them develop new attitudes about the academic and professional power of dual language abilities. This model program has implications for all institutions with significant Hispanic populations.
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