They also help explain why the college completion rate at Western, unlike at most colleges and universities in Oregon and the nation, is higher for Latino students than for their white peers. Nearly 49 percent of the Latino students at Western graduate within six years, compared with 45 percent of white classmates, according to a study last month by the American Enterprise Institute.
The study, which averaged graduation rates from 2005, 2006 and 2007, found that at most colleges and universities, nomatter how selective, Latino completion rates lagged those of their non-Latino white peers. The lag in Oregon ranges from 4 percentage points at the University of Oregon to 15 points at Willamette University, the report found.
Those percentages, however, do not account for students who graduate after transferring from one Institution within the Oregon University System to another, officials
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