It wasn’t a weekend concert or sports event that brought Vilma and David Martinez to the Cal State L.A. campus on a recent Saturday morning. The numbers at Cal State L.A. are even more challenging: only 11 percent finish in four years and 52 percent in six. Aware of these challenges, some parents attended even though they are veterans of sending children to college. Among them attending the Spanish sessions were William and Damarys Lacayo, immigrants from Nicaragua whose son Elliott is a Cal State L.A. freshman. That is true “whether a parent never attended college or attended college 25 years ago and so much has changed that they need a refresher.”

Source: Los Angeles Times February 03, 2020 13:52 UTC