PROGRAM GOALS

At the initiative’s end, the enhanced pathway to good jobs will show:

More than a 13-percentage point increase in Latino high school graduates enrolling in college

A 70% college completion rate among the initiative’s cohorts

More than 6,250 Marion County Latino high school students to have received college admissions and financial aid information

2,000 parents will be engaged

48 students (four cohorts of 12 students in each) would be trained and serve as peer leaders at the three institutions

Up to 24 cohort students will have completed degrees and will be gainfully employed, enrolled in graduate school, or transferred to a four-year institution

3 to 5 thriving chapters of Latino professional associations with upwards of 2,000 Latino college students engaged; scores of professional mentors connected

Framework and lessons learned from the initiative will be published

21%

Latino

HOOSIER ADULTS HOLD DEGREES OR CERTIFICATES COMPARED TO 38% OVERALL