The New Futuro College Plan: Facilitating College Access

Built on a free, bilingual, "high-touch, high-tech" platform, New Futuro has created a robust community of Latino students and parents, non-profit organizations, education institutions, government agencies, and corporations to connect those that need help with those that provide it. One of the resources developed by New Futuro is a proprietary 10-Steps College Plan that provides structured information targeted to Latino students and families to help them prepare, apply and pay for college.

When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students

In 1998, Texas initiated a bold new statewide university admission policy aimed at increasing college access for traditionally underserved students in the state. House Bill 588 (known as the Texas Top 10 Percent Plan (TTPP)) guaranteed automatic admission to the college or university of their choice for all top performing students in Texas public high schools. Fourteen years after the plan’s implementation, we see great strides and complexities in understanding student outcomes as a result of the percent plan. However, the legal controversy over the percent plan both in Texas and other states incorporating similar yet distinctly motivated alternative admissions plans continues to play out from institutional decision boards to the highest court in the nation. This study seeks to add to that discussion by exploring two questions. Descriptively, what are the admission and enrollment patterns within racial/ethnic groups of percent plan eligible students, over time, for Texas elite, emergent elite, and remaining public institutions? Given that all eligible percent plan students may enter the institution of choice in Texas, does which type of institution a TTPP student chooses relate to their race/ethnicity? The descriptive story told by the admission and enrollment distributions of equally eligible TTPP students is a complex but compelling one. Fundamentally, it identifies that statistically different application and enrollment patterns exist for Hispanic and especially African American TTPP beneficiaries relative to their White and Asian American counterparts.

Commentary on "When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students"

Invited commentary on "When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students" by Catherine Horn and Stella Flores.

Predictive validity of the personal background and preparation survey and effectiveness of targeted interventions among health science community college students

Existing data, collected from 1st-year students enrolled in a major Health Science Community College in the south central United States, for Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 semesters as part of the "Online Navigational Assessment Vehicle, Intervention Guidance, and Targeting of Risks (NAVIGATOR) for Undergraduate Minority Student Success" with CPHS approval number HSC-GEN-07-0158, was used for this thesis. The Personal Background and Preparation Survey (PBPS) and a two-question risk self-assessment subscale were administered to students during their 1st-year orientation. The PBPS total risk score, risk self-assessment total and overall scores, and Under Representative Minority Student (URMS) status were recorded. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and report the predictive validity of the indicators identified above for Adverse Academic Status Events (AASE) and Nonadvancement Adverse Academic Status Events (NAASE) as well as the effectiveness of interventions targeted using the PBPS among a diverse population of health science community college students. The predictive validity of the PBPS for AASE has previously been demonstrated among health science professions and graduate students (Johnson, Johnson, Kim, & McKee, 2009a; Johnson, Johnson, McKee, & Kim, 2009b). Data will be analyzed using binary logistic regression and correlation using SPSS 19 statistical package. Independent variables will include baseline- versus intervention-year treatments, PBPS, risk self-assessment, and URMS status. The dependent variables will be binary AASE and NAASE status. ^ The PBPS was the first reliable diagnostic and prescriptive instrument to establish documented predictive validity for student Adverse Academic Status Events (AASE) among students attending health science professional schools. These results extend the documented validity for the PBPS in predicting AASE to a health science community college student population. Results further demonstrated that interventions introduced using the PBPS were followed by approximately one-third reduction in the odds of Nonadvancement Adverse Academic Status Events (NAASE), controlling for URMS status and risk self-assessment scores. These results indicate interventions introduced using the PBPS may have potential to reduce AASE or attrition among URMS and nonURMS attending health science community colleges on a broader scale; positively impacting costs, shortages, and diversity of health science professionals.^

From Graduation to College Blossoming Into a Flower: A narrative by Christina Ling

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My College Experience So Far

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Notable College Experiences Through Original Still Photography

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My College Experience

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The Philosophical Forum. Published with the cooperation of the Departament of Philosophy of Baruch College of the City University of New York, v. XX, n. 1-2, Fall-Winter 1988-89

Fil: Jalif de Bertranou, Clara Alicia.

Imaginario social en la publicidad web de los e-readers

Se exploran las significaciones imaginarias que se materializan en los discursos publicitarios sobre los aparatos lectores de libros electrónicos comúnmente denominados "e-readers". Se parte de la hipótesis de que se cruzan significaciones imaginarias asociadas tanto al imaginario neotecnológico de las tecnologías digitales (Cabrera, 2006, 2011) como a lo que podríamos denominar el imaginario del "orden de los libros" (Chartier, 2000, 2005). Para realizar la exploración se analizan los discursos publicitarios de las páginas Web de tres casos: las marcas Kindle de Amazon, Kobo y Bq de Movistar. Se concluye que los e-readers</em> son aparatos que participan del imaginario neotecnológico y vienen a integrar el complejo de las tecnologías digitales para la vida cotidiana, y que remiten también en gran medida a las significaciones imaginarias que dieron lugar a la hegemonía del papel en la cultura occidental por más de cinco siglos.

Readers : Más allá del argumento

Fil: Ruiz Arcodia, Libertad. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Imaginario social en la publicidad web de los e-readers

Se exploran las significaciones imaginarias que se materializan en los discursos publicitarios sobre los aparatos lectores de libros electrónicos comúnmente denominados "e-readers". Se parte de la hipótesis de que se cruzan significaciones imaginarias asociadas tanto al imaginario neotecnológico de las tecnologías digitales (Cabrera, 2006, 2011) como a lo que podríamos denominar el imaginario del "orden de los libros" (Chartier, 2000, 2005). Para realizar la exploración se analizan los discursos publicitarios de las páginas Web de tres casos: las marcas Kindle de Amazon, Kobo y Bq de Movistar. Se concluye que los e-readers</em> son aparatos que participan del imaginario neotecnológico y vienen a integrar el complejo de las tecnologías digitales para la vida cotidiana, y que remiten también en gran medida a las significaciones imaginarias que dieron lugar a la hegemonía del papel en la cultura occidental por más de cinco siglos.

Readers : Más allá del argumento

Fil: Ruiz Arcodia, Libertad. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.