In the STEM Fields, How Hispanic Students Pay for Their Education Affects Success

“The report, "Tapping HSI-STEM Funds to Improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM Professions," argues that the Hispanic achievement gaps at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels exist in large part because of finances. ‘A lot of discussion about participation hasn't acknowledged that fact,’ said Lindsey E. Malcom, one of the co-authors and an assistant professor at the University of California at Riverside. “Chronicle of Higher Education  11/9/10 http://chronicle.com/article/In-the-STEM-Fields-How/125318/