Workshop aims to show Hispanics way to college - The Boston Globe: "According to a 2003 survey commissioned by Sallie Mae of 2,400 Hispanic parents and college-age youths in seven large cities, three-quarters of young Latino adults who are not in college said they would have been more likely to attend if they had known more about financial aid. Two-thirds of Latino parents surveyed said they did not receive any information on financial aid before their children left high school. More than half of the parents, and 43 percent of young Latino adults, could not name one source of college financial aid.

''It's a huge problem,' said Hugh Rosen, spokesman for the Sallie Mae Fund. ''The Latino population in the United States is exploding, yet at the same time, the rate of college attendance and graduation is lagging far behind.'"