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UPDATE 7/5/2006
Other CLPR Film Projects:
UT to UC, The Top Ten Percent Plan
Barbara Lin, University of California at Berkeley
2006 University of California Berkeley, Summer Research Opportunity Program
UPDATE (5/23/06): The Center for Latino Policy Research (CLPR) will soon publish a research report that will describe the experiences of Latinos in California community colleges with an emphasis on the transfer function. This report will contain analyses of initial educational goals, basic skills and transferable coursework patterns, transfer rates, and four-year college destinations of Latino first-time freshmen who entered a California community college in fall 1996.
On October 1, 2005, CLPR and the California Policy Research Center (CPRC) hosted the first planning meeting for the California Higher Education Equity working group. The all-day event was attended by expert researchers, policy makers, and staff who have worked closely with the issues of equity, access, and retention in public higher education.
The purpose of the working group is to guide research and analysis of best practices and polices that facilitate the admission and retention of underrepresented undergraduate students.
The first half of the meeting was dedicated to the discussion of past research initiatives, such as the UC Black and Latino Eligibility Task Forces, and the identification of current state and university policies that challenge equity in higher education. A presentation was made to the group on current research findings on equity issues in the professoriate and graduate study. The first half of the meeting dealt with the identification of priority areas of research that can be sponsored or facilitated by the group.
The main outcomes of the meeting were the agreement to establish a statewide working group on higher education issues and to commission a study on community college transfers.
For more information, contact Gabino Arredondo at garre@berkeley.edu
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