The Academic and Social Integration of Hispanic Students into College

Academic and social integration into college is key to persistence in models of student attrition. This study operationally defined academic and social integration to fit a Hispanic 2-year college population and examined psychometric properties of the measures through confirmatory factor analyses. Findings confirmed the importance of appropriate and culturally sensitive operational definitions of academic and social integration when including these constructs in persistence studies of Hispanic students at 2-year institutions.