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$2.5 Milllion Grant to Aid Students at Notre Dame de Namur U.

A $2.5 million Title V grant was awarded to Notre Dame de Namur University in California to support programs for Latinx, transfer and first-generation-to-college students, according to university officials. The U.S. Department of Education grant will be dispersed over a course of five years to fund the college’s STARS (Success in Transfer and Retention for Students) […]

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day Observed at Montana State

Montana State University celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Bozeman on Monday, according to a report from KRTV in Great Falls, Montana. More than 100 people attended the celebration, including Bozeman Mayor Cyndy Andrus who said the community should be safe and welcoming for students and others of all backgrounds. The college, which was established 125 […]

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Remembering Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, Champion of Affirmative Action

This past week, I was moved by the memorial for the late Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. The first Asian American to head a major research university, University of California Berkeley, which he led from 1990 to 1997, he was remembered again on the tenth anniversary of the naming of an East Asian Library in his honor.

HACU Leaders Focus on Internationalization, Immigration Reform

Conversations on the importance of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) internationalizing their campuses, advocacy for DREAMers and collaborative partnerships between other minority-serving institutions for Hispanic student success filled the final day of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities’ Annual Conference.

Conference Focuses on Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success

As Latino students enter higher education at increasing rates, ensuring their success through student support and inclusive campus cultures is a growing priority, according to higher education leaders at this year’s Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) 32nd Annual Conference.

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UNC Pembroke Awarded $1.1M to Support American Indian School Administrators

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) School of Education recently received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of American Indian administrators in the state’s public school districts with a large American Indian student population, university officials said. The five-year grant will support the First Americans’ […]

López Cultivates Community in the Heart of Chicago

Dr. Ignacio López, an up-and-coming Hispanic leader in education, knows what it means to be community-minded.

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Mexican-American Professor Aims to Be ‘Agent of Ethnic Mobility’

She was born to a mother who left school after the third grade to work. Her late father attended school in a one-room adobe house in the mountains of Mexico, but never finished.

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San Francisco State President Announces Plan to Retire

Dr. Leslie E. Wong, president of San Francisco State University (SFSU), has announced he will retire on July 30, after the 2018-19 school year has completed. Wong is the institution’s 13th president and during his leadership, the school was titled a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution […]

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Is Higher Ed Responsible for Brett Kavanaugh?

We know Brett Kavanaugh was at the White House days before his hearing on the Dr. Christine Blasey Ford matter. He was prepping for senators’ questions like it was a final exam. And we all saw how he did. How would you grade him?

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Columbia Senate Approves African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department

The University Senate at Columbia University has unanimously voted to establish a department of African-American and African Diaspora studies, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. If approved by the board of trustees, the department will become the first independent department dedicated to African studies in Columbia’s history. Currently, courses on the subject exist only within […]

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Creating an Inclusion Imperative: Advancing Diversity in Medical Education

It is no secret there are incredible gaps in our health care system today. In many major cities, you can go from neighborhood to neighborhood and see the average life expectancy drop by several decades. When you look at the underserved communities hit the hardest by health inequity, many are made up of diverse populations.

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