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Section: Demographics > Latinx
Latinx
$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) […]
October 9, 2018
Latinx
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.
October 8, 2018
Latinx
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.
October 7, 2018
Students
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.
October 3, 2018
Students
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.
October 2, 2018
Latinx
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 […]
October 1, 2018
Latinx
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.
September 28, 2018
Latinx
Wood Uses Scholarship to Promote Advocacy
Growing up in the small town of McCloud, California, Dr. J. Luke Wood became interested in higher education after noticing the lack of diversity in the faculty and administration during his undergraduate years at the California State University, Sacramento.
September 28, 2018
African-American
Scholars Believe Supreme Court Likely to End Affirmative Action with Kavanaugh
Scholars from coast to coast expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh – and they expect him to help end affirmative action by ruling against it in cases that reach the high court.
September 13, 2018
Latinx
Excelencia in Education Report Examines HSI Graduates’ Life Outcomes
Leaders and individuals committed to the success of Latino students in higher education gathered for a collaborative panel discussion following the release of Excelencia in Education and Gallup’s report “Examining Life Outcomes Among Graduates of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).”
September 11, 2018
Latinx
FIU Takes a Holistic Approach to Student Success
Florida International University’s (FIU) commitment to putting students first positions the university as a leader in producing minority degree-holders in various academic fields. With the Student Support Services Program, evidence-based student success strategies and a holistic approach to student success overall for its diverse student population, FIU has improved its four-year graduation rate by 14 […]
August 22, 2018
Latinx
SPJ Recognizes CSUN Journalism Professor
Dr. José Luis Benavides, a professor at California State University, Northridge, received the Society for Professional Journalists’ Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award as a result of his extensive work on building and expanding the Spanish-language journalism program at the university. Through the program, Benavides has trained and mentored aspiring journalists who can report on Spanish-language […]
August 21, 2018
Latinx
Brighid Dwyer: Advancing Diversity and Building Bridges Through Intergroup Dialogue
Dr. Brighid Dwyer specializes in helping people talk to each other. Not at each other or past each other, but across lines of division ranging from age, race and gender to religion, sexual orientation and political views.
August 21, 2018
Latinx
Installing Collaborative Spaces Increased Retention at NMSU Engineering
As we begin another academic year, it is important to remember during the beginning-of-semester excitement that many students will not be returning to campus to complete their studies. Retention can be a problem for universities, specifically for those students who have been traditionally underserved.
August 16, 2018
Latinx
Saint Xavier University Receives First NSF Grant as HSI
Saint Xavier University recently received a $1.46-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), making the award the first NSF grant SXU has received as a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). The funding is also the largest NSF award in the school’s history. As a participating school in the NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program, […]
August 14, 2018
Students
Vanessa Sansone: Determined to Make a Difference
Dr. Vanessa Sansone has used her personal background of being a first-generation college student and growing up in a low-income community as influence for her teachings and research on underrepresented groups.
August 9, 2018
Latinx
Report Details Wide Latino, White College-Attainment Gaps in Colorado
Colorado, the second most-educated state in the nation, has a college-attainment gap between White and Latino residents that is the worst among the nine states with the largest Latino populations.
August 8, 2018
Students
Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color
If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.
July 23, 2018
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