This article examines the factors that affect Latinos’ enrollment in community colleges that are Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). Compared with community colleges that are not HSIs, HSI community colleges are serving students at greater risk for not completing college. Latinos who are enrolled in community college HSIs, compared with their counterparts not in HSIs, are more likely to be first-generation college-going, male, and older. They also have higher high school grade point averages and higher educational expectations.
Este artículo examina los factores que afectan la inscripción de estudiantes latinos en colegios comunitarios preparatorios que son instituciones de servicio hispano (HIS). Analizamos una muestra nacional de estudiantes universitarios de primera generación, y de primer año, para explorar el fondo demográfico, características académicas, consideraciones para elegir universidad, y los contextos locales asociados con las inscripciones en los colegios comunitarios preparatorios que son HSIs. HSIs colegios comunitarios preparatorios parecen inscribir estudiantes con expectativas educacionales superiores pero también con alto riesgo de salirse del colegio.
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