{"id":10379,"date":"2019-06-07T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10379"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:27:06","slug":"utrgv-a-seal-of-excelencia-finalist-recognized-for-helping-latino-students-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10379","title":{"rendered":"UTRGV, a Seal of Excelencia Finalist, Recognized for Helping Latino Students Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UTRGV has been named one of 20 universities and colleges selected by Excelencia in Education as a finalist for the Seal of Excelencia. Excelencia in Education is the nation\u2019s leading organization dedicated to ensuring and accelerating the success of Latino students. Photo: David Pike\/UTRGV<\/p><\/div>\n

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by Letty Fernandez<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY \u2013<\/strong> UTRGV is one of 20 universities and colleges selected by\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education as a\u00a0finalist for the Seal of\u00a0<\/a>Excelencia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excelencia<\/a>\u00a0in Education<\/a>, the nation\u2019s leading organization dedicated to ensuring and accelerating the success of Latino students, announced the list of institutions after a thorough review process.<\/p>\n

The Seal of\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0is a voluntary certification to recognize institutions intentionally serving Latino students for success based on leadership, evidence-based practices, and the use of data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely excited and honored to have been selected as one of the finalists for the Seal of\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0by\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education,\u201d said Dr. Patricia Alvarez McHatton, UTRGV executive vice president for Academic Affairs, Student Success, and P-16 Integration.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudent success is central to our mission at UTRGV, and the three core areas determined by\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0to more likely lead to Latino student success \u2013 data, practice, and leadership \u2013 align with the work we, collectively, are doing at UTRGV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Luzelma Canales, UTRGV senior associate vice president for Student Success, prepared the 15-page application submitted to\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is exciting to be selected as a finalist,\u201d Canales said.\u00a0\u201cExcelencia\u00a0in\u00a0Education\u00a0has been a longtime partner with our legacy institutions, our community colleges, and now with UTRGV in promoting what it means to serve Latino students. We are proud to work with them on highlighting how we support our Latino students to help them succeed in meeting their educational goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education website, \u201cThe Seal signals that an institution has developed a comprehensive and systemic approach to accelerating Latino student success and seeks to raise the bar by which institutions are evaluated with regard to serving Latino students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intended outcomes listed include significantly increasing the percentage of Latino students who attain degrees by 2030; growing the number of institutions that achieve the Seal by concretely showing improved ability to help Latino students succeed; raising awareness and action to accelerate Latino student success; influencing policy discussions about how to help institutions of higher education better serve Latino students; and building consumer demand within the Latino community to enroll in institutions that demonstrate success in serving Latino students.<\/p>\n

The list of finalists also includes UT System institutions UT El Paso and UT Arlington.<\/p>\n

Institutions receiving the Seal of\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0will be announced June 20\u00a0in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

For the list of instituions selected as finalists visit\u00a0https:\/\/www.edexcelencia.org\/seal-excelencia-finalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To learn most about\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education, visit,\u00a0https:\/\/www.edexcelencia.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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by Letty Fernandez RIO GRANDE VALLEY \u2013 UTRGV is one of 20 universities and colleges selected by\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0in Education as a\u00a0finalist for the Seal of\u00a0Excelencia. Excelencia\u00a0in Education, the nation\u2019s leading organization dedicated to ensuring and accelerating the success of Latino students, announced the list of institutions after a thorough review process. The Seal of\u00a0Excelencia\u00a0is a voluntary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}