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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Martínez, senior director of research and impact at SHPE during a Sep. in 2003 – and 7.5% Despite these gains, Latino students continue to face several hurdles during their academic and career pursuits, such as insufficient financial literacy, career planning, and financial assistance. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

The opportunity to do just this was presented in two small research projects I recently worked on (Raven, 2021a and 2022). Whilst the discussions addressed the main focus of the research, they also provided an opportunity to explore the reasons why some had decided against HE. Three observations emerge from these two studies.