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Minority-serving Institutions Called To Serve as Leaders in Student Retention

The Lumina Foundation for Education is requesting proposals for its Minority-Serving Institutions–Models of Success grant program.

UCLA Launches Largest Mexican, Mexican American Online Archive

The University of California, Los Angeles Chicano Studies Research Center, the UCLA Library, and the Arhoolie Foundation have launched the largest online digital archive of Mexican and Mexican American recordings.

In Tough Economy, MSIs Win Funding Increases

Several minority-serving institutions receive much-needed earmarks.

New Book Exposes Undocumented Students’ Struggles

Undocumented University of California, Los Angeles students share their struggles to help advance the DREAM Act.

Hard-fought MSI Technology Plan Needs Jump Start

After much work to get MSIs more technology funding, advocates face tough budget climate.

What Will It Take To Increase Hispanics in STEM? Money, of Course

The National Science Foundation came to Hispanic-serving institutions for advice Sunday on the best way to tackle the dearth of Latinos in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Help for Part-time Students Among Recommendations Urged To Improve Latino Educational Attainment

Warning of an education crisis for the nation’s burgeoning Latino population, academic researchers and advocates came to Capitol Hill Friday, calling for quick action to avert that crisis.

Obama’s Education Budget Seeks To Restructure Pell Grant

With a goal to expand financial aid and college access, the Obama administration unveiled a 2010 education budget plan Thursday that virtually guarantees future Pell Grant increases while creating a major new initiative on college completion.

LOC Highlights People of Panamanian Islands

The Library of Congress Hispanic Division will convene a symposium this Friday focusing on the culture of a people indigenous to the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama.

Hispanic Channel Photo

Budget Bill Seeks Immediate Education Increases

Last fall, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate decided not to fight with the Bush White House over education spending for fiscal 2009, which began last Oct. 1.

Leadership & Policy

Documentary on Landmark Civil Rights Case Premiers Tonight on PBS

PBS tonight will premier a documentary, “A Class Apart,” that sheds light on a landmark Mexican-American civil rights case handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 1954 – two weeks before the watershed Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

Community Colleges May Soon Start Turning Students Away

Nicole Rodriguez has been waiting a year to get into Pima Community College’s nursing program. But she’s running out of patience.

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