White House Seeks Advice on Getting Hispanics into College (Miami Herald)
"The question to Miami educators was straight forward: If we want more Hispanics students attending college, what do we need to do?" the Miami Herald reports. "'We want to hear from you directly and ask you what would you tell the president if you could,' Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House's Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, asked during a visit to Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus. 'And more importantly, we need you to sign up and join us to create a national network of folks with a common goal,' he added. Sepulveda, who attended Stanford, Harvard and Oxford, and is only the third Hispanic to be named a Rhodes Scholar, visited MDC as apart of a 'community conversations' tour to get feedback to take back to the administration."
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