The Higher Education Crisis in Arizona

Maria Rebello-Valdez, MPH
5 min readJul 12, 2019

In the past decades, we have seen an increase in the Latino population in Arizona with the Latino to White ratio increasing from 26:63 to 41:44 from 1980 to 2000 (Latinos, Whites and the Shifting Demography of Arizona, 2010). In the Last U.S census completed in 2010 the Latino population surpassed the White population with Arizona being comprised of 49% Latinos and 37% White, not counting the undocumented population in…

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Maria Rebello-Valdez, MPH

Contributor writer for Medium and former contributor writer for HuffPost. I focus on disparities in education and medicine. #Latina #Hispana #Medicine