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Students
Sacramento Editor Heads Journalism Program on Mexican Border Issues
Rich Rodriguez, 53, the former editor of the Sacramento Bee has joined the faculty of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to train young journalists to cover Latino and U.S.-Mexico border issues.
February 12, 2008
Latinx
Hispanic Seniors Encouraged to Apply for Heritage Awards by March 14
High school seniors across the nation are being urged to apply for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s (HHF) Youth Awards, which honor academically successful students. The deadline is March 14.
February 12, 2008
Latinx
Obama Says “Yes, We Can!” But Among Hispanic Voters: Can He?
His rallying cry echoes the late César Chávez, the Latino activist who inspired legions with three simple words, “Si, se puede!”
February 11, 2008
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African-American
Perspectives: The Future of Public HBCUs Depends On Exceptional Leadership
HBCUs make up 3 percent of colleges, but 23 percent of Black graduates. Surely, Black institutions add value to American higher education. The question is how can they contribute more?
February 10, 2008
Latinx
HEA Bill Passes, Despite White House Objection Over MSI Funding
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a Higher Education Act bill even as the White House criticized some of its provisions, including two to boost support for minority-serving institutions.
February 7, 2008
African-American
Low Performance of Children Tied to “Ecological Risk”
Living in high-poverty neighborhoods has such a detrimental effect on verbal abilities of Black children that it’s the equivalent to missing a year of school, according to a recent study by sociologists from Harvard and New York universities and the University of Chicago.
February 7, 2008
African-American
Civil Rights Icons Backing Clinton Have Little Company
ATLANTA When Barack Obama was declared the winner of Georgia’s Democratic presidential primary, the Sweet Lowdown restaurant in midtown Atlanta echoed with whoops of glee as dozens of young, Black professionals celebrated his win with raised martini glasses. In other parts of the city, two civil rights icons had more subdued evenings, watching from separate […]
February 6, 2008
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Latinx
President’s Budget ‘Shortchanges’ MSIs
Minority-serving colleges and universities would lose some of last year’s hard-fought funding gains under President Bush’s proposed education budget plan for next year.
February 4, 2008
Leadership & Policy
San Jose State President Bans Campus Blood Drives as Part of Nondiscrimination Policy
San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives in protest of a longstanding government policy that bars gays from donating blood and called the policy discriminatory, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.
February 4, 2008
Students
Dartmouth President To Step Down
Dartmouth College President James Wright will step down next year to spend more time working to help wounded veterans go to college and rededicating himself to his academic field of study.
February 3, 2008
Latinx
Spellings in Alabama, Announces Plan for Reading Program Increase
MONTGOMERY Ala. Educators, legislators and state officials met with U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Friday for a round-table discussion about No Child Left Behind that was at turns critical and complimentary, but always candid. “I thought it was stimulating conversation. I think it was straight from the heart and from professional people who are in […]
February 3, 2008
Sports
Tribe Likely to Vote on UND Nickname
BISMARCK N.D. Members of the Spirit Lake Nation likely will vote on whether to support the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname, the tribe’s leader says. Chairwoman Myra Pearson said Saturday that the tribe has grown tired of the issue. “It’s been something that’s not as important as our health care or housing or […]
February 3, 2008
Native Americans
MSU Program Seeks to Educate American Indian School Administrators
BOZEMAN Mont. A Montana State University program that aims to more than triple the number of American Indians serving as principals and superintendents in the state recently received a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its work, the university said. The program, Indian Leadership and Development or ILEAD, seeks to reduce the administrative turnover at […]
February 3, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Couple Gives $1M to UCLA to Boost Chinese-U.S. Relations
LOS ANGELES Two Bel-Air residents said they will donate $1 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to set up the nation’s first endowed academic chair on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American studies. Walter and Shirley Wang, who own a plastic piping firm, said Friday they want to promote understanding of China in the […]
February 3, 2008
Native Americans
San Francisco State To Become Third California University To Offer Bachelor’s in American Indian Studies
San Francisco State University, home to the only College of Ethnic Studies in the United States, has added a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies this semester.
February 2, 2008
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Students
Pancho, College Bound: Chicano Creator’s Debut Film About University Life is Already a Winner
Recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau state that of the 16.6 million college students enrolled in colleges across country in 2003, 10 percent were Hispanic. Of those 1.6 million Hispanic students, at least one is a student like Pancho, very poor but determined; excited about going to college but unsure of its expectations.
January 31, 2008
Latinx
Just the Stats: U.S. Behind in College Degrees
The United States is quickly falling behind other industrialized nations in terms of adults who hold a college degree, and minority groups are the least likely to attain that level of education, according to a recent report released by higher-education groups examining a state-by state analysis on access and equal opportunity for postsecondary education.
January 30, 2008
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Latinx
Study: Hispanic Freshman Want ‘Helicopter Parents’
The conventional wisdom has it that so-called helicopter parents are annoying their children by hovering over their every move as they apply to college. But it turns out most freshmen are happy with how involved mom and dad were during their college search.
January 30, 2008
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