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Latinos at community colleges
Author(s) -
Martinez Magadelena,
Fernández Edith
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
new directions for student services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0695
pISSN - 0164-7970
DOI - 10.1002/ss.116
Subject(s) - community college , higher education , scale (ratio) , medical education , public relations , political science , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , geography , cartography , law
Community colleges serve as the point of entry for the majority of Latinos in higher education, offering low‐cost, smaller‐scale educational opportunities in the communities where students live and providing the preparation for four‐year colleges and universities that may have been lacking in their K–12 education. The challenges to community colleges in providing services to Latinos are great, but their potential to facilitate the achievement of Latinos is vast.