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Demographers estimate that by 2050 Latinos will constitute a majority of the state’s population. A recent S.F Chronicle (November 13, 2010) article reported that for the 2009-2010 academic year almost 50.3 percent of California’s public school students identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino, up 1.36 percent from the previous year. Yet, Latinos also have some of the lowest rates of educational attainment in the state, possess lower incomes than other groups, and vote at significantly lower levels than whites or African Americans. If policymakers and policy advocates are going to address these problems, they need rigorous, user-friendly policy information about the Latino community in order to accurately target any proposed solutions. The Center’s goal is to leverage the complexity of the Latino experience in the United States in order to shed light on the myriad factors that affect the distribution of material, social, and political opportunities within U.S. society.
This semester we will focus on Berkeley students. Using the data from SERU, we will look at Chicano(a) /Latina(o) a students on the Berkeley campus using the most recent data. We will also look at the trends and changes across time using data from 2006, 2008 and from 2010.
