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California Sets Ambitious 70% College Attainment Goal Amid Persistent Equity Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College Futures Foundation has released a comprehensive report highlighting California's push to achieve 70% postsecondary attainment by 2035, while revealing significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in college completion rates across the state.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Projections say that Latino students will reach parity in engineering enrollment by 2035, Martínez said. One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% of engineering master’s degree recipients in 2021 – from 4.2%

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