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<h3>July 19, 2007</h3>
<h3>Hispanic Enrollment Booms in Texas, but Still Lags Over All, Report Says</h3>
<p>Hispanic students are attending Texas colleges in greater numbers, but, despite substantial enrollment increases, still participate in higher education at a lower rate than any other racial or ethnic group in the state, according to a new report by the
<a href="http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/">Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.</a></p>
<p>The panel reports that about 334,000 Hispanic students were enrolled at public and private colleges in the state during the last academic year — nearly 100,000, or 40 percent, more students than were enrolled six years ago.
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<p>But those students account for just a small share of Texas' fast-growing Hispanic population. Only 3.9 percent of Hispanic residents are enrolled in college, compared with 5.4 percent for blacks and 5.5 percent for whites. That means Hispanic enrollment is lagging behind benchmarks set in the state's higher-education plan,
<a href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i14/14a01301.htm">Closing the Gaps by 2015.</a> The goal for Hispanics is 4.8 percent by 2010 and 5.7 percent by 2015.</p>
<p>"We have some work to do," Raymund A. Paredes, Texas' commissioner of higher education, told the <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4982524.html">Associated Press.</a> <i>—Karin Fischer</i></p><a href="http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2714?=atnb">
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