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Section: Demographics
Students
Parents, Community Holds Key to Hispanic Education Achievement
“Parents and family are the No. 1 enablers, and the No. 1 obstacles” to student success, Sara Martinez Tucker, the undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Education, told a group of educators, parents and community organizers at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans on Thursday.
September 11, 2008
Native Americans
What’s Palin’s Record on Native Issues?
With 13 percent of its nearly 670,000 residents considered Native, Alaska has one of the highest percentages of Native people of any state in the country.
September 11, 2008
Native Americans
KU Holds Symposium on U.S.-Indian Relations
The final stop in a three-year series of symposia focusing on diplomatic relations between American Indian tribes and the U.S. government will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, UK announced.
September 9, 2008
Native Americans
UNT and Haskell Nations Collaborate for Environmental Careers
The University of North Texas announced that it will partner with Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to build a diverse workforce that can meet the country’s environmental demands.
September 9, 2008
Students
IU Offers Support for American Indian Group
Indiana University administrators are working to find a new space and director for a support group for American Indian students weeks after student leaders accused IU of not supporting the group.
September 9, 2008
Native Americans
WSU Research to Help Native American Students
Accepting a challenge from the state’s lawmakers, four Washington State University researchers will report on the best ways to help Native American students succeed, the university announced.
September 9, 2008
Native Americans
ECSU Honors Mashantucket Pequot Chairman
Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic conferred an honorary doctorate on Michael Thomas, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation during a Convocation ceremony on Aug. 29, in the Francis E. Geissler Sports Center Gymnasium, officials announced recently.
September 9, 2008
Students
Mazda Foundation Backs Scholarships at UNCP
The Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc., has renewed two four-year scholarships for American Indian students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), the university announced.
September 9, 2008
Students
Students Earn Scholarships Honoring Pioneering Woman
Eight Minnesota students recently received the American Indian Ethel Curry Scholarship for academic excellence, awarded by the Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation (MAEF) in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education, the department announced.
September 9, 2008
Students
Bonds to Faculty Help Keep Latinos in STEM Majors
Latino students who major in math, sciences, and technology have a better academic performance if they also have strong relationships with the faculty, according to a recent study from the University of Southern California.
September 9, 2008
Latinx
Woman’s Mission: Keep Hispanic Youths in School
Maria Gonzalez spends Friday evenings in a church basement, surrounded by 30 teens chattering in a mix of English and Spanish, because she has assigned herself a mission: to improve graduation rates and college attendance of Torrington and Winsted’s Hispanic youth.
September 9, 2008
Latinx
UA Interpreter-Training Center Earns Grant to Grow Program
An interpreter-training program at the University of Arizona center has won a highly selective U.S. Department of Education grant that will allow it to develop an online curriculum for schools around the nation.
September 9, 2008
Latinx
UC Santa Barbara to Honor Poet and Children’s Advocate
The University of California at Santa Barbara has announced that Pat Mora, a poet and author, will receive the 2008 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival on Saturday, September 27.
September 9, 2008
Latinx
Castro’s Daughter to Speak at SIU-Carbondale
Alina Fernandez, daughter of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, is scheduled to speak Sept. 29 at Southern Illinois University’s student center as part of Latino Heritage Month. (National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 – Oct. 15.)
September 9, 2008
Latinx
Nebraska Calls Summit on Latino Education
The Nebraska Department of Education and the state Mexican-American Commission have announced the fifth annual Hispanic/Latino Education Summit to be held Oct 6.
September 9, 2008
Students
Perspectives: Obama’s Election to Undercut Affirmative Action? Not a Chance
The title for this article was selected in response to this writer’s initial and continued uneasiness in relationship to the question posed by the title of a Diverse Online article of July 2, 2008, “Might Obama’s Success Undercut Affirmative Action?”
September 9, 2008
Latinx
Study: Ph.D. Completion Rates Vary By Gender, Race
International students, men and Whites complete their Ph.D. requirements faster than domestic, women and minority students, according to a Council of Graduate Schools study being released today.
September 8, 2008
Native Americans
Elders Work to Save Kenai’s First Language
Elders of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe have been teaching students from around the state their language as a way of preserving it.
September 7, 2008
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