Puerto Rican students who live on the island have unique inequitable hurdles to jump in accessing college. Here are some resources dedicated to improving equitable college access for Puerto Rican students on the island.
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Articles
- “Puerto Rican Students are Getting a Lapse Year. That’s Not a Good Thing.” Ileana Rodriguez; Americano News, April 2020.
- In Puerto Rico, the Odds are Against High School Grads Who Want to Go to College – Jon Marcus; Hechinger Report, April 26, 2019
- Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico’s College Admissions Process – Roberto Jimenez Rivera; Medium, Jan 14, 2019
- In Devastated Puerto Rico, Universities Get Just a Fraction of Storm Aid – Greene & Cochran; NY Times, May 1 2018
- How One University Bounced Back From a Hurricane in 17 Days – Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez; Chronicle of Higher Ed, March 2018
- How to Help the University of Puerto Rico – and How Not To – Bonilla, Godreau, Walicek; Chronicle of Higher Ed, Nov 27, 2017
Books
- Aftershocks of Disaster – Bonilla & Lebron; Haymarket Books, Sep 24, 2019
- Island People: The Caribbean and the World – Jelly-Schapiro; Knopf, Nov 22, 2016
- War Against All Puerto Ricans – Dennis; Bold Type Books, Mar 29, 2016
Podcasts
- Puerto Rico Forward
- Fernanda Zamudio Suarez on The Crush
Data and Resources
- Puerto Rico Syllabus dot com “Essential tools for critical thinking about about the Puerto Rican debt crisis”
- This data visualization by Jon Boeckenstedt shows student migration out-of-state to enroll in college. On the right-hand side, select “PR” as the state to walk through the history of Puerto Rican student enrollment by institution from 1986 until 2018. Click on the tab titled “Freshman Migration Patterns” to see the overall history over time.
- Population Loss and School Closures in Puerto Rico – Center for Puerto Rican Studies; Hunter College, May 7, 2019
The College Board in Puerto Rico
- Read a 181-page tome about the history of the College Board in Puerto Rico here
- Prueba de Nivel Avanzado (PNA)
- Prueba de Aptitúd Académica (PAA)
People to follow on Twitter
PR Syllabus
El Nuevo Dia
Marisol Lebron
Yarimar Bonilla
Frances Robles
Carmen Yulín-Cruz
Benjamín Torres Gotay
Roberto Jimenez Rivera
Alana Casanova Burgess