Although these are challenging goals, our students and their families are counting on us to succeed. And so is California, which needs more successful graduates to help power its innovation economy. However, merely decreasing the time to degree completion will not be enough to narrow California’s degree deficit. We must also shift our practices to serve the increasing number of students who have evolved beyond the traditional student profile, otherwise known as post-traditional students¹. This includes the growing Latinx population, as well as low-income students, first-generation college students, adult learners, full-time employees, commuter students and working parents².


¹For more information, visit !Excelencia in Education!, Intentionally Serving Latino and Other Post-Traditional Students, 2020.

² Deborah Santiago, Using a Latino Lens to Reimagine Aid Design and Delivery, Excelencia in Education, March 2013.

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