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Experts Determined to Boost Hispanic Business-oriented Ph.D. Attainment

Hispanics remain underrepresented in academe, particularly in terms of business Ph.D. attainment.

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ROBERTA DIAZ BRINTON

ROBERTA DIAZ BRINTON has been appointed director of the UA Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. She is the R. Pete Vanderveen Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development in the School of Pharmacy and a professor of biomedical engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Brinton earned a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Arizona.

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Retention Grant Keeping Dreams Alive at Georgia State

Georgia State UniversityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Panther Retention Grant program is helping students who lack the funds to pay for their last few semesters of school.

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Is Affirmative Action Failing the Students It Was Designed For?

Since the â€œHarvard Revelation,â€ several scholars have noted the changing racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks attending selective higher education institutions.

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Excelencia: Community Colleges Need to Embrace Latino Role

President Sarita Brown said she believes community colleges can play a critical role in assuring Latino studentsâ€™ academic success.

President Sarita Brown said she believes community colleges can play a critical role in assuring Latino students’ academic success.

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Lumina Reports Uptick in College Completion

College completion numbers show incremental improvement from last year, according to the annual Lumina Foundation report, “A Stronger Nation.”

Lumina Foundation President and CEO Jamie P. Merisotis said that, as more employers seek candidates with more postsecondary skills, ??the challenge is that the talent needed to fill those jobs is really in short supply.??

Faculty & Staff

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Historian Cobb Joining Faculty at Columbia University

Dr. William Jelani Cobb, a prolific Black historian and journalist, is joining the faculty of Columbia University??s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Puerto Rico Debt Crisis More Than Just an Economic Issue

Puerto Rico’s debt crisis is a humanitarian crisis impacting the most vulnerable groups on the island, human rights activists and lawyers said at a briefing on Capitol Hill recently.

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Professor Tackles Turbulent History of Latinos and the LAPD

Scholars present research in the growing area of Chicana/o and Latina/o geography, specifically comparative racialization at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion

Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.

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Only Half of U.S. Students Taking ‘College-Ready’ Courses

Only about half of all U.S. high school students actually take the sequence of courses they need to be considered ready for college and careers, according to a new report being released today by the Education Trust.

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