Academic and social factors that affect Latino community college students??? ability to transfer to a four-year university

Thesis (M.A., Education (Multicultural Education)) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.The majority of Latinos continue their education by attending a two-year college after high school instead of going directly to a four-year university. Unfortunately, less than twenty percent of these students are able to transfer to a four-year institution (Haro, 2008), statistics that exemplify the fact Latinos are not succeeding in higher education. Education is important and a crucial element in the progression of any community in the United States (Guerrero-Avila, 2001). The effects of undereducated Latinos for California and the United States will be that the nation will have an undereducated population unable to compete with other countries (Abergo, 2008).Education (Multicultural Education