{"id":798,"date":"2018-09-19T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=798"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:33:50","slug":"its-time-for-colleges-to-stop-overlooking-hispanic-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/09\/19\/its-time-for-colleges-to-stop-overlooking-hispanic-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time for Colleges to Stop Overlooking Hispanic Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When colleges talk about enrolling more Hispanic students, they tend to think of a \u201ctraditional\u201d age group. That\u2019s understandable. After all, in the United States, the median age of Hispanics is 27; for whites, it\u2019s 43.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s understandable isn\u2019t the same as what\u2019s desirable.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s one reason Deborah A. Santiago, who heads up Excelencia in Education, an organization seeking to improve educational outcomes for Latino students, has been working for the past few years to improve colleges\u2019 outreach and service to Hispanic adults.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/It-s-Time-for-Colleges-to\/244539?cid=wcontentlist_6_4list_3\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When colleges talk about enrolling more Hispanic students, they tend to think of a \u201ctraditional\u201d age group. That\u2019s understandable. After all, in the United States, the median age of Hispanics is 27; for whites, it\u2019s 43. But what\u2019s understandable isn\u2019t the same as what\u2019s desirable. And that\u2019s one reason Deborah A. Santiago, who heads up&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/09\/19\/its-time-for-colleges-to-stop-overlooking-hispanic-adults\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}