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Section: Demographics
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
Native Americans
Famed Artist Teaches Shell Carving at Muscogee
Dan Townsend, an internationally known Native American artist, recently spent a month at the College of the Muscogee Nation on Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology’s campus sharing the art of shell carving, the OSU-Okmulgee announced.
September 7, 2008
Native Americans
Tribal College Expanding Campus
United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck is officially marking the start of a campus expansion with a ceremony Friday at a 135-acre tract of land immediately south of the current campus.
September 7, 2008
African-American
Getting to Know Dr. Kofi Lomotey
While Dr. Kofi Lomotey has held appointments at predominately White institutions, he understands the critically important roles that historically Black colleges and universities play in educating Black students.
September 3, 2008
Disabilties
Protecting Voters’ Rights
The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund unveiled a new nonpartisan voter awareness program, Prepared to Vote, to help reveal and address voting barriers in the upcoming November elections such as: voter ID requirements, voter purges, faulty voter rolls, poorly trained election officials and felon disenfranchisement statutes.
September 3, 2008
Latinx
On DiverseEducation.com
VOICES OF DIVERSITY: Tune in to DiverseEducation.com and listen to Diverse’s featured champions of diversity Dr. Roy Jones of the Call Me Mister program and Sarita Brown of Excelencia in Education as they each explain the relevance of their organization’s work and the impact they are making in their spheres of influence.
September 3, 2008
Students
10 Diversity Champions II
Introducing the “Champions of Diversity” in the Academic Kickoff issue proved a timely reminder of the mission of Diverse during the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of Cox, Matthews and Associates, the founder of the former Black Issues in Higher Education and publisher of Diverse.
September 3, 2008
Latinx
Diverse Calendar
Sept. 17-20 National Black MBA Association 30th Annual Conference & Exposition “Catalyst for Change” Convention Center Washington, D.C. Web: www.nbmbaa.org
September 3, 2008
Latinx
Arkansas Project Highlights Migrant Labor History
Arkansas State University is participating in a history research project on the “braceros” guest-worker program that brought Mexican laborers to the United States to address a labor shortage, beginning in World War II.
September 2, 2008
African-American
Leading Chicano Artist to Visit NIU
Malaquias Montoya, one of the nation’s top Chicano artists, will be on hand for the opening reception of an exhibit of his artworks, Northern Illinois University announced.
September 2, 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 1, 2008
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