Excelencia in Education, the nation’s premier authority on efforts accelerating Latino student success in higher education, selected CTN as a national finalist for the 2021 Examples of Excelencia.

Examples of Excelencia was created in 2005 and is the country’s only national effort to identify, aggregate and promote evidence-based practices improving Latino student success in higher education.

This year, Excelencia received 145 program submissions representing 23 states and Puerto Rico. CTN, along with 20 other finalists will be featured online as well as in Excelencia’s Growing What Works Database – the only national online, searchable database for institutional leaders, funders, and policymakers interested in identifying what works for Latino students