sylvia hurtado, who you met before, nicholas hillman, ann-marie nunez. why don't we start at the end and put ann up first.

sylvia hurtado, who you met before, nicholas hillman, ann-marie nunez. why don't we start at the end and put ann up first. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. my particular paper is co-authored with wilda rodriguez who could not be here today. we focused on how the shortcomings of a post secondary ratings system could lead to shortchanging hispanic-serving institutions and their outcomes. so as today's research and other research indicates there are well documented differences in student and institutional characteristics between hsis and nonhsis that would lead hsis to have lower graduation rates on average than nonhsis. and so our analysis at the beginning of this paper -- in the previous session we talked about the possibility of adjusting for some of these student and institutional characteristics. and so in fact at the beginning of our paper, we find that when we account for student characteristics, financial resources of institutions, policies at institutions that might influence completion, whether or not an institution has an open admissio

sylvia hurtado, who you met before, nicholas hillman, ann-marie nunez. so, why don't we start at the end and put ann up first. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. my particular paper is co-authored with wilda rodriguez at the university of michigan who could not be here today. we focused on how the shortcomings of a post secondary ratings system could lead to shortchanging hispanic-serving institutions and their outcomes. so as today's research and other research indicates there are well documented differences in student and institutional characteristics between hsis and non-hsis that would lead hsis to have lower graduation rates on average than non-hsis. and so our analysis at the beginning of this paper -- in the previous session we talked about the possibility of adjusting for some of these student and institutional characteristics. and so in fact at the beginning of our paper, we find that when we account for student characteristics, financial resources of institutions, policies at institutions that might influence completion, whether or not

sylvia hurtado, who you met before, nicholas hillman, ann-marie nunez. why don't we start at the end and put ann up first. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. my particular paper is co-authored with wilda rodriguez who could not be here today. we focused on how the shortcomings of a post secondary ratings system could lead to shortchanging hispanic-serving institutions and their outcomes. so as today's research and other research indicates there are well documented differences in student and institutional characteristics between hsis and nonhsis that would lead hsis to have lower graduation rates on average than nonhsis. and so our analysis at the beginning of this paper -- in the previous session we talked about the possibility of adjusting for some of these student and institutional characteristics. and so in fact at the beginning of our paper, we find that when we account for student characteristics, financial resources of institutions, policies at institutions that might influence completion, whether or not an institution has an open admissio