Ethnicity Matters - Rethinking How Black Hispanic and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed
in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from
underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate
degree completion. The four model programs serve students from those ethnic groups that face
the most serious problems of underrepresentation in American higher education - African
Americans Latinos and American Indians. What sets these four programs apart from most other
minority college recruitment and retention efforts is that they are built on this premise:
Ethnic identity plays an empowering role in educational achievement.
