Hispanic Education

I'm Hispanic and I'm the first in my family to graduate college and graduate school. Growing up I never visioned myself accomplishing much as a student. My focus was always on starting a career, little did I know that education was the path that I was supposed to take to advance my career. I wish I could say that attaining a college degree was easy but it wasn't. In fact it took close to seven years for me to complete my bachelors simply because I was working full-time to pay for tuition....

Hispanics are starting to enroll into their local community colleges after they graduate high school. The numbers are starting to go up and this is a good thing. There is still so much to keep in mind when it comes to Latinos attending college. Starting college is not the real problem, it's finishing with a college degree. More and more Hispanics are starting at the community college level but few attend full-time for various reason. Hispanic Community College Why is the community college...

This past month I was able to speak to a group of 40 pre-teens in Cleburne, Texas. In my presentation to the students I asked how many of them had ever seen a college degree. To my dismay less than a quarter of the room raised their hands. So then I asked how many of them wanted to see and touch a college degree. 100% of them raised their hands and so then I went on to unravel three degrees that I had available. Once was mine and the other my wife’s and the third one belonged to a good friend of mine...

When it comes to college or any higher education programs, Hispanics are all on board. That is until you reveal to them how much it is going to costs. See Hispanics do not fear having to get up and go to school for a certain amount of years. We are hard working individuals and will spend a lifetime day laboring if we had to. But when it comes to having to pay college expenses to attend colleges and universities, hispanics are discouraged due to financial woes. This is why so many Hispanics start...

There seems to be a lot of talk about Hispanic American education. Many programs are created every year to help boost or may I say increase the attendance of Hispanics in higher education. The truth is that schools are struggling to get students to get serious about academics let alone college. There is something that the school system has left out when it comes to education. The parents. What happens is this, once the parents get educated, the kids get educated. This does not happen all the time...

The message that I tell young people is very clear, educate yourself today so you can be prepared for tomorrow. The concept correlates with anything in life, if you prepare yourself for life, you will succeed in life. I never used to think about education nor why it was important. Yes, many tried to get the message across to me that education would play a role in my life but I didn't understand until I went to college. In fact I have to keep reminding myself how important Hispanic education is and how...