Latino Males in Higher Education, Experiences Affecting Retention

ABSTRACT

As the Latino population continues to grow in the United States, it is important for Latino youth, and specifically, Latino males, to obtain a college degree. As other demographic groups graduate from colleges and universities across the country, Latino males continue to lag behind their non-Latino peers in obtaining their college degrees. Specifically, this study discusses the challenges that Latino males face during their first year in college.

KEYWORDS:

• Latino males
• access
• higher education
• belonging
• retention
• role models

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.