Although affordability and funding is often prescribed as key to getting Latinos through college, a panel of Latino students said Friday there's another challenge — and it's cultural.
Promoting the idea that higher education is worth the investment means changing the mentality in their homes and neighborhoods, they said.
“Traditional Hispanic culture still dictates that you stay at home until you get married or get a job,” Mitzi Torres, a senior at Burbank High School, told the audience at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference at the Museo Alameda.
“Your family wants to protect you, but they have to accept (that) you have a dream and may have to leave, not just home, but the city for a better future,” she said. READ MORE
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