Roberto RodriguezLeadership & PolicyYou say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NYBRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.July 11, 2007LatinxUC professor wins gender discrimination lawsuit – University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Yolanda Broyles-GonzalezOne day last fall, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Professor Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez woke up and decided she was not going to take it anymore.July 10, 2007StudentsChicano generation gap: method of activism by scholars at center of NACCS schism – includes related article on Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de AztlanSacramento Protesting California’s anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 and the general anti-Latino and anti-immigrant mood of the state and the country, the twenty-fourth annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference kicked off with a rally here late last month at the base of the state capitol.July 10, 2007StudentsAn organization by any other name… – controversial name change of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico to “Centro de la Raza – includes related articleControversy Flares Over University of New Mexico’s Centro de la RazaJuly 4, 2007StudentsLatino movement: a target for harassment? – student movement charges school administrations for deliberate harassmentAlbuquerque–Members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA)–which translates to Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan– say their organization is being unfairly targeted by school administrations across the country. The harassment they are facing, says one student, “is like the 1960s, but with a 1990s twist.”July 4, 2007LatinxStudents vow to oppose Proposition 209 – special report: health sciencesThe weekend after the elections, approximately 1,600 Chicano students met at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) for the regularly scheduled fall statewide MEChA conference.June 23, 2007Native AmericansWired for controversy: symbolic sculpture by Native American rejected by University of New Mexico – BarbedThe University of New Mexico has rejected a sculpture it had commissioned from a Native-American artist because his final product includes barbed wire.June 23, 2007StudentsStudents play a major role at historic Latino march on WashingtonCollege and university students were a major force at the first-ever national civil and human rights rally to concentrate on Latino issues. The two-day event, which included a march and a student conference, was held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Leticia Villareal, a student at Vassar and the administrative chair of East Coast […]June 23, 2007LatinxPresident’s Hispanic education commission releases reportThe long-awaited report by the President’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans was finally released last month with few surprises and a grim picture for both Latinos and the nation.June 22, 2007HomeDismissals spark protests at Texas-Arlington – advisory council of Texas-Arlington UniversityThe firing last month of the director and staff of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Mexican-American Studies continues to draw a barrage of protests front campus and community activists.June 22, 2007Previous PagePage 6 of 8Next Page