Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
As more Latinos enroll in college, the number of Latinos going into the professoriate is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013, Latinos made up 17 percent of all students in higher education, up from 11 percent in 2003.
Yet the percent of tenured or tenure track Latino faculty is not growing as quickly, meaning that there is a growing deficit in the Latino student-to-faculty ratio. Between 2003 and 2014, the percentage of Latinos among all faculty members grew from 2 to 4 percent, moving the ratio of Latino students to Latino faculty from 80:1 to 90:1 over the same period, according to the Excelencia report, published at the organization’s annual Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) workshop in Washington, D.C., on Thursday...