Cloaking Inequity

Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success

1–2 minutes

July 29, 2012

English Language Learners, Higher Education Access, Latina/os

Vasquez Heilig, J., Rodriguez, C., & Somers, P. (2011). Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success. Journal of Latinos and Education, 10(2), 106-126.

English learners (ELs) are facing unique issues in higher education that remain largely unexplored. This research focuses on college choice, enrollment and graduation of high-achieving ELs who were eligible for automatic admission to any Texas public higher education institution by graduating in the Top 10% of their high school class. We found large enrollment gains for ELs were not observed until revised Texas DREAM legislation stipulated that immigrant students fulfilling reformulated residency requirements were entitled to in-state tuition rates. The majority of Top 10% ELs enrolled at border institutions, were largely first-generation college students, and experienced generally higher cohort graduation rates at Texas flagship universities.

Vasquez Heilig, J., Rodriguez, C., & Somers, P. (2011). Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success. Journal of Latinos and Education, 10(2), 106-126. English learners (ELs) are facing unique issues in higher education that remain largely unexplored. This research focuses on college choice, enrollment and graduation of high-achieving ELs who were…

2 responses to “Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success”

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April 25, 2016 at 10:47 am

[…] I previously wrote about the enrollment of Latinos, African Americans, and English Learners in the midst of the Top 10% plan in the posts Actuating equity?: Historical and contemporary analyses of African American access to selective higher education from Sweatt to the Top 10% Law and From Jim Crow to the Top 10% Plan: A historical analysis of Latina/o access to a selective flagship university and Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success […]

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Racial Bias in Peer Review? | Cloaking Inequity

October 15, 2012 at 10:03 pm

[…] college, our sample was amiss. Clearly, the reviewer needs to reference, (but not review) the paper I recently co-authored on the DREAM Acts and the common (and wrongheaded) critiques of denying […]

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