Latino College Student Success Programs Honored

Latino College Student Success Programs Honored: ...Those visits proved critical in encouraging Torres to enroll in STEP 2—a program at Texas Tech’s College of Education that helps students at South Plains College make the transition from the two-year institution to its four-year college.

The STEP 2 program (STEP is an acronym for Successful Transition to Educator Preparation) is one of three programs honored Tuesday by Excelencia in Education for their success in helping Latino students get to and through college. The ceremony, which was held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, took place during Excelencia’s sixth annual “Celebracion de Excelencia.” Diverse was a co-sponsor of the event, which included attendance by Dr. Martha Kanter, the undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education, and Jon Whitmore, the CEO of ACT.