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Section: Demographics > Latinx
Faculty & Staff
Researchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes
A new report examines racial inequity in education and offers recommendations based off of research which touches on structural barriers that need to be overcome in order to improve educational outcomes for racial groups.
June 25, 2017
Leadership & Policy
SUNY Albany Appoints its First Latino President
The State University of New York at Albany has tapped a prominent Latino administrator to lead the state institution. Dr. Havidán RodrĂguez becomes the first Hispanic president of any SUNY four-year college.
June 21, 2017
Students
Arizona Court Overturns In-state Tuition for DREAMERs
PHOENIX  — The Arizona Court of Appeals says young immigrants granted deferred deportation status under a program started by former President Barack Obama are not eligible for lower in-state college tuition. Tuesday’s ruling says a judge’s 2015 decision that deferred action recipients were considered legally present in the U.S. and therefore qualify for state benefits […]
June 20, 2017
Latinx
Rodriguez: The X in LatinX
This development has happened due to issues relating to the fluidity of gender — a recognition that there is not simply a male-female binary.
June 7, 2017
Students
University of Puerto Rico Reopening as Students End Protest
After more than 50 days of a sustained strike that suspended campus activities altogether, students at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras campus voted to end the protest on Monday. Classes are expected to begin again next week.
June 6, 2017
Students
Rodriguez: Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz Identity
A couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano […]
June 5, 2017
Students
Rodriguez: Arizona Court to Decide What We Can Learn
The long-anticipated trial to determine whether there were racial motivations in terminating Tucson Unified School District’s highly effective Raza Studies Department begins next month.
May 22, 2017
Students
Leaders of Minority-Serving Institutions Ask Congress to Bolster Pell Grant
The presidents and chancellors of 10 minority-serving institutions called on members of Congress to strengthen federal investment in the Pell program, in a letter released on Wednesday afternoon.
May 17, 2017
Students
Title IV Funds Withheld from 5 Campuses in Puerto Rico During Strike
Adding to the University of Puerto Rico’s financial woes, the Department of Education has rescinded the eligibility of five of the system’s 11 campuses for Title IV programs due to the ongoing student strike.
May 17, 2017
Students
Protesting Students in Puerto Rico Committed to Saving Higher Ed Access
Students on strike in the University of Puerto Rico system have settled in for the long haul as the island struggles to come to a resolution regarding its massive debt crisis.
May 15, 2017
Students
Rodriguez: Diaz Epitomizes Education and Responsibility
How time flies. Watching Cynthia Diaz at this year’s Centro Guerrero convocation at the University of Arizona brought back memories of when I first saw her.
May 12, 2017
Students
Puerto Rico’s Financial Crisis Wallops University System
Puerto Rico’s fiscal control board is proposing to cut the university system’s budget by nearly half by 2021. As a result, the stakes are higher than ever for UPR’s future.
May 10, 2017
Students
Eight Steps to Establish Support Systems for Undocumented Students
This current uncertainty of protections afforded under the DACA program underscores the need for university staff, administrators and faculty to create infrastructures to support their undocumented students.
May 8, 2017
Students
Low-income, Minority Students Lag in High School Grad Rates
WASHINGTON — Despite rising national graduation rates, low-income and minority students continue to lag behind their peers in finishing high school, according to a study released Wednesday. While the national graduation rate for the year 2015 was 83.2 percent, it was only 77.8 percent for Hispanic students and 74.6 for Black students, said the […]
May 3, 2017
Latinx
Rodriguez: Teaching, Selling or Consuming Cinco de Mayo
It is a time when we are bombarded by messages to drink and party and wear big sombreros and put on mustaches and emit wimpy shrieks that attempt to pass for genuine celebratory gritos.
May 2, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Hispanic Leadership Pipeline Proving Vital
Programs that prepare Hispanic role models for executive leadership are of increasing importance, especially as Hispanic enrollment in community colleges, now at an all-time high, continues to grow.
April 26, 2017
Students
Rodriguez: Liberation or Social Justice?
The Chicano Movement did not use the term “social justice,” though it was very much a part of its agenda.
April 24, 2017
Students
Education Advocates Uneasily Awaiting Trump Budget
“I’ve been in higher education for a long time, but I’ve not seen this level of uncertainty and unpredictability,” Dr. Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, said Monday.
April 24, 2017
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