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Study: Latin History Teaching Standards Lacking

American schools are doing a poor job of teaching history and culture of Latin America and Mexico, according to a new review of states’ world history teaching standards conducted by the Washington, D.C.,-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

Education Department Issues Criteria for “Rigorous” Curriculum

Students at minority-serving colleges and universities are among the primary targets of a new $4.5-billion financial aid windfall…

Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning

I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed to…

New Mexico State Hopes to Draw Students from Minority-Serving Institutions

New Mexico State University regents, seeking to boost enrollment, have approved three programs involving out-of-state tuition waivers — including a pilot project to analyze the elimination of nonresident tuition.

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Professors’ Salaries at Minority-serving Institutions Lag Counterparts

A recent study, “The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005-06,” found that overall average salaries for professors declined for the second year in a row…

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House Votes to Reauthorize Higher Education Act

After years of partisan bickering, the House of Representatives has passed a measure reauthorizing the Higher Education Act for six years on a 221-199 near-party line vote…

Study Details How U.S. Can Lessen

By taking the right measures, the United States could end its dependence on oil imported from the Middle East by 2025, says a recent study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley…

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was presented with two proposals to boost multicultural research at the university…

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was…

Hispanic Group Claims Olgethorpe University’s Language Policy Discriminatory

The alleged policy targeted three Spanish-speaking housekeepers, according to a motion filed last week by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund…

Faculty & Staff

National Geographic Unveils Ancient Manuscript on Relationship Between Jesus and Judas

For 2,000 years Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient document seeks to tell his side of the story…

New Report Details Enrollment, Graduation Trends

Hispanic-serving institutions have realized significant gains, both in numbers and importance, as a growing Latino population increasingly seeks greater access to higher education…

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