Advantages & Opportunities of a “Committee of One”

• Strategic alignment across the IE region
• Relationship-building across affiliates
• Leverage resources collectively, as a group
• Pool our knowledge & expertise
• Capacity-building across institutions, agencies, and groups
• Brand enhancement of the network
• Rank and prioritize the most pressing regional issues

• Deliberate and decide on which of those issues we can agree to work on, and hone, collaboratively
• Provide solutions specific and explicit to the IE (move away from the generic “one size fits all”)
• Bring small successful models “up to scale”, therefore magnifying the positive effects
• “Giving priorities” (the affiliate network acts as a broker and/or external evaluator, advising philanthropists, donors and funding agencies)

The INLAND EMPIRE Regional Affiliate Network must demonstrate the following characteristics:

Results from the Initial Dialogue between Inland Empire Stateholders and the White House Initiatives for Hispanic Excellence in Education, Wednesday September 8, 2010.

Latino Education Across The Inland Empire

General Population: 4.1 Million

                                                                            Riverside County San Bernardino County

Latino Population                                                   36%                     40%
Latino Families Living in Poverty                              50%                     50%
English Language Learner                                       20%+                   20%
Latinos over 25 w/ HS Diploma                                18%                     23%
Latino Student Enrollment K-12                               55%                     55%
Latinos over 25 w/ B.A.                                           10%                    13%

Source: U.S. Census, www.factfinder.census.gov

Latino Education Pipeline Problem, Pre-K to Graduate School

100 Latinos Enter the School System -->
56 Graduate from HS -->
27 Enroll in College -->
10 Earn a BA -->
2 Earn a Graduate Degree

Important Factors

• Pre-K: 66% of Inland Empire children do not have access to pre-K programs.

College Readiness:

• Just 25% of graduating Latino high school students meet A-G requirements in California;
  6% of Latino high school students were eligible for the UC system and 16% for the CSU system
  
  

College Enrollment:

• Most Latino high school graduates enroll in the community college system.
  
• A little more than 20% of CSU-wide student enrollment is Latino; less than 15% of UC-wide student enrollment is Latino.
  
• Projections suggest that the percentage of eligible Latino students who will enter the CSU and UC system will increase by 50% in the next 10 years.
  
• Nationally, 6% of bachelor’s degrees are awarded to Latinos; In California; 20% of all CSU-wide graduates are Latino; 13% of all UC graduates are Latino.

  
  Data Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Public Policy Institute of California; Inland Empire Business Atlas; Chavez, L. (2008). Untapped Potential: Latinos and California Community College. Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley; Moore, C. & Shalock, N (2007). Moving Forward: Increasing Latino Student Enrollment in California’s Public Universities, Institute for Higher Education, Leadership & Policy; Covarrubias, A. (forthcoming April 2011). Quantitative Intersectionality: A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline. Journal of Latinos and Education, 10 (2), forthcoming, April 2011