Overview

  • Intro
  • Latino Males in Education Landscape
  • Latino Males: workforce, armed forces, & U.S. Prisons
  • Latinas Females in Education
  • Blueprint for action

“The pressing reality is that men of color, and Latino males in particular, lag significantly behind their female peers in terms of both college access and degree attainment. This situation weakens the nation’s ability to utilize its great human capital and sure the success of tis diverse families and communities.” – Saenz & Ponjuan, 2011

“Young Latino males [labor supply] represent the fastest growing employment pool and yet the most underutilized talent base.”

(Maldonado and Farmer, 2006)

Workforce

Latinos have historically had among the highest participation rates in the U.S. labor force, but they tend to work in occupations that pay low wages, provide low economic mobility, provide little or no health insurance, are less stable, and are more hazardous to their health and well-being (Maldonado and Farmer 2006)
  • low educational attainment;
  • limited English language proficiency
  • lack of work experience, training, or other employability skills
 Saenz & Ponjuan, 2011
  • Latino males compose approximately 11.5 percent of the total enlisted servicemen and women within the Department of Defense, which includes all the armed forces (U.S. Department of Defense 2009)
  • Latinos are the third largest group of enlisted males, but a closer examination of the military appointments of Latino males indicates that they are still underrepresented in the military.
  • Not all Latino males are eligible to serve in the military: The high rates of high school dropout and then non permanent immigration status make many Latinos ineligible.

Armed Forces

U.S. Prisons

  • Out of 2.3 Million people incarcerated, Latinos comprise of 20% of inmates (1 out of 5 people)
  • CA Jails & Prisons, Latinx makeup 41% of inmates
  • 6.8 Million people under correctional supervision in USA.
  • Latinx are less likely than Black males to enter the judicial system, yet are 4X more likely than white males to enter prison.
  • 2.7:1 Ratio of Latino males in jail dormitories vs College Dorms.

Latino male enrollment in college increased over the last 10years. From 2005 to 2014, Latino male enrollment in higher education increased 75% (from 718,500 to 1.26 million).

Saenz & Ponjuan, 2011

The Good

  • Over 1.3 million Latinx were enrolled in college in California, a 91 percent increase since 2000-01
  • In 2016, 86 percent of Latinx 19-year-olds had a high school diploma or equivalent; 39 percent of high school graduates had graduated from high school prepared for college.
  • More Latinx than before are transferring from the California Community Colleges to the public four-year universities thanks to ADT for CSU’s
  • The gap between White students’ and Latinx students’ completion rates at California Community Colleges and graduation rates for transfer students within four years of enrolling at CSU institutions has narrowed over time.
  • Time to complete degree has decreased for Latinx students at University of California (UC) campuses.
Campaign for College opportunity, 2018
  • About 45,000 Latinx who were eligible to attend a UC or CSU did not. That is almost 40 percent of Latinx who were qualified to attend one of California’s public four-year universities. 
  • Over half of California’s Latinx families earn less than $49,000 per year.  This is higher than any other group in the state 

The Bad

Stats

  • 7.5% LAtinx student affairs positions
  • 3.5% academic affairs positions
  • 43% service and maintenance  staff work on college campus
  • ⅓ campus safety personnel
  •  24% of Latino adults (25 and over) had earned an associate degree or higher VS 46% of White adults (Excelencia in Education, 2020)
  • 64% CA Latinx are US born citizens
  • 36% Foreign born
  • 84% Mexican Origin

Latino Male Success Blueprint for Action

  1. Create awareness: Education & Workforce data
  2. Develop a network of support: Business champions, political and community leaders
  3. Develop a vision & mission statement for further buy for latino male success
  4. Identify short-term & long term measures, goals, & objectives
  1. Develop key benchmarks and track progress
  2. Design research-based programmatic activities to meet objectives
  3. Secure human capital, financial resources, & infrastructure for programmatic planning & execution
  4. Create financial & Non-financial sustainability
  5. Inform stakeholders of policy & practice updates

Saenz & Ponjuan, 2011

Recommendations

  • Emotional Support: foster care & respect through mentoring, peer support, & individual counseling
  • Instrumental Support: offer tangible interventions, such as workshops focused on financial literacy, study skills, and time management
  • Information support: offer valuable information related to academic transition, academic advising, and career choices
  • Appraisal Support: offer ongoing feedback based on student study progress
  • Structural Support: provide formal & informal structures to improve schools culture & climate

State of Latinos In Education (CA)

Latina Females in Education

  • Less than 1% of Latinx Adults have and advanced degree
  • Today, Latinas are paid only 54 cents compared to a White, non-Hispanic man’s one dollar for completing similar work. 
  • On average, Latinas in the U.S. are paid 46% less than white men and 31% less than white women.

Latinx Professors

Latinos make up only 4.1 percent of the professoriate in the United States but 20 percent of the population aged 18-44. Education Writers Association, 2020
“As states continue to pursue their goals to increase the share of adults that have some form of postsecondary credential, it is imperative that states enact policies, interventions, and incentives that will enable more Latino students to successfully navigate the traditional educational pathway to degree completion and help Latino adults — who may have dropped out of college, never enrolled, or grew up outside the United States — find a pathway to completing a college credential or degree” – Ed Trust (2017)