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Beyond brutality – scholars say repeated beatings born in hate and police culture
After an 80-mile chase, the blows to the body began almost immediately. The Riverside, CA, sheriffs repeatedly beat a defenseless Mexican citizen on the side of a freeway in Los Angeles County. The blows continued even after the man was down. Then, the same officer turned his riot stick on a woman passenger. She was dragged from the truck.
June 17, 2007
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Reaching out, but in which direction? – academic outreach programs – includes list of MESA USA members
When early academic outreach programs were first created and took aim at reaching out to students of color, the initial idea was to inspire and motivate students to prepare for college in a general way.
June 16, 2007
Students
Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column
Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.
June 16, 2007
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Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline
Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.
June 16, 2007
Students
Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus
Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”
June 16, 2007
Students
Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done
Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.
June 16, 2007
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A degree of success – Black students raise Scholastic Assessment Test scores, overcoming ‘stereotype vulnerability’ – Recruitment & Retention
`Stereotype Vulnerability’ Being Overcome As Black Students Raise Their SAT Scores And Collect More Degrees.
June 15, 2007
Latinx
Dos culturas, one pedagogy: teaching history from black and Hispanic perspectives – efforts to raise ethnic identity amongst the Mexican and African Americans in Texas – Cover Story
Teaching History From Black and Hispanic Perspectives.
June 15, 2007
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Washington update
22 Black Colleges Risk Losing Student Loan Eligibility Status.
June 15, 2007
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Efforts Underway To Thwart Controversial Upward Bound Changes
Tucked into a U.S. House of Representatives higher education bill this week is a plan to scuttle a controversial evaluation of the Upward Bound program that would require grantees to enroll twice as many students as necessary and then provide no services to some of the youth as part of a research experiment.
June 14, 2007
Latinx
House Committee Approves Increase in Pell Grant, New Funding For Black Colleges
The House education committee on Wednesday approved a higher education bill that would increase Pell Grants, cut lender subsidies and make wide-ranging changes to help low-income students and minority-serving colleges.
June 13, 2007
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MSIs, College Access Programs Gain in House Bill
Advocates for low-income students are hailing a new U.S. House of Representatives agreement that would increase funding for college access programs and minority-serving institutions in 2008.
June 10, 2007
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Low Percentage of Latino Students Transfer From Community Colleges to Four-Year Universities, UCLA Study Shows
LOS ANGELES Although a majority of Latino students in California are enrolled in the community-college system, only a handful transfer to a four-year university, according to a new report by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
May 31, 2007
Latinx
Minority-Serving Institutions Scrambling For Quick Funds
HSIs look for increased federal funding through NSF and farm bills.
May 30, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A One-Stop Shop
Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.
April 18, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
A One-Stop Shop
Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.
April 18, 2007
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Latinx
Hinojosa Keeping the Focus on Access
New chair of House higher education subcommittee says the business community needs to partner with colleges.
April 4, 2007
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Expanding the Literary Canon
Hispanic literature is growing in popularity, and scholars would like to see it better incorporated into high school, college curriculms.
March 28, 2007
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