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Keeping the DREAM Alive

A state reciprocity agreement facilitates in-state tuition for undocumented students in New Mexico and Colorado.

September 30, 2007

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A Historical Omission

Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and colleagues were puzzled to learn of a major World War II documentary to air without the voices of Latino veterans. And then the campaign began.

September 30, 2007

House Votes to Expand Health Insurance for Children Despite Bush Veto Threat

WASHINGTON The House voted Tuesday to expand health insurance for children, but the Democratic-led victory may prove short-lived because the margin was too small to override President Bush’s promised veto.

September 29, 2007

Contractor Sued Over Alleged Harassment of Hispanic Workers

PETALUMA, Calif. A construction contractor was sued based on allegations that a supervisor referred to workers as “stupid Mexicans” and said “Latinos are the slaves of the twenty-first century,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

September 29, 2007

Question Regarding Student Drug Use Returns in FAFSA Debate

Opponents say the provision disproportionately affects low-income, minority students.

September 29, 2007

The Top Hispanic-serving Degree Producers

Each year, when we publish our list of Top 100 undergraduate degree producers, we get calls from Hispanic-serving institutions asking why they didn’t make the list. The answer may surprise you.

September 29, 2007

Getting to Know Melody Rodriguez

When Melody Rodriguez came to the United States from Merida, Venezuela, at the age of 17, she didn’t know she would work in higher education.

September 27, 2007

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Education for a Democracy: Money, Green Card Not Required

Today, in the midst of increasing political measures to deny basic rights and services to immigrants, we must remember that Latina/o students are part of a growing movement for social justice. The U.S. government and America’s schools are doing little to build on these students’ strengths, invest in their futures or ensure their place in institutions of higher education.

September 27, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Gay College President Has Few Peers

When Ralph Hexter assumed the presidency of Hampshire College in western Massachusetts in 2005, his partner of 25 years, Manfred Kollmeir, was officially welcomed with all the trappings of a presidential spouse. Over Labor Day weekend, the couple made it official, exchanging vows in a private ceremony (Massachusetts is the only state allowing gay marriage) and breaking the news last week to the campus community.

September 24, 2007

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Best & Brightest: Community College Grad Competes with the Best

In an auditorium brimming with a sea of the country’s brightest young scholars attending prestigious universities like Georgetown and the University of California, Berkeley, Tiffany Dang recalls looking around, and asking herself, “What am I doing here? Am I really at their level?”

September 23, 2007

Tennessee Universities Take Steps to Recruit More Hispanics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Universities across Tennessee are taking steps to recruit more Hispanics to diversify their student bodies, officials say.

September 23, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Ellen Chaffee says she’s leaving as Valley City State University president

BISMARCK N.D. The president of Valley City State University says she’s stepping down in June.

September 23, 2007

Recording companies sue 12 Tulsa University students

TULSA Okla. A dozen University of Tulsa students are being sued in federal court for copyright infringement by 15 recording companies.

September 23, 2007

Latina women and higher education – making it happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

September 23, 2007

Green MBAs seek to balance profit and planet

OAKLAND Calif. Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would start rolling at the idea of a “green MBA.”

September 22, 2007

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University of Central Arkansas planning Chinese studies program

CONWAY Ark. A Chinese studies program involving several academic fields is planned at the University of Central Arkansas, paid for in part with a federal grant, university officials say.

September 22, 2007

Tennessee universities take steps to recruit more Hispanics

NASHVILLE Tenn. Universities across Tennessee are taking steps to recruit more Hispanics to diversify their student bodies, officials say.

September 22, 2007

Edwards rolls out education policy

DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool.

September 22, 2007