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Section: Demographics > Latinx
Latinx
A Leader Among Leaders
Miami Dade President Eduardo PadrĂłn heads presidential advisory panels on Latino education while also serving as chairman of the American Council on Education board of directors.
August 2, 2011
African-American
Texas Higher Education Enrollment Topped 1.5 Million in 2010
Texas is in line to meet the 2015 higher education enrollment goal of 1.65 million students, but the state must work harder to encourage minorities to pursue advanced degrees, according to the state’s higher education commissioner.
July 31, 2011
Latinx
Brazil to Send 100,000 Science Students Abroad
Brazil will grant 100,000 scholarships for university students to study abroad as the rapidly developing nation tries to boost the country’s competitiveness, officials said Tuesday.
July 28, 2011
African-American
Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites, Minorities
The wealth gaps between Whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.
July 26, 2011
Latinx
Forum: Digital Divide Could Leave Latinos Further Behind in Education, Jobs
Panelists at a Tuesday forum held by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) suggested that lack of broadband Internet access could hinder the progress of Latinos living in the U.S.
July 26, 2011
Latinx
Legal Eagle Helps Florida International Law Grads Soar
Law school dean Alex Acosta has not hesitated to call upon some of the many attorneys he knew in his pre-FIU years to ask them to seriously consider his Florida International University students for opportunities.
July 25, 2011
Latinx
Sweeping New Immigration Laws in Georgia and Alabama Impact Migrant Labor Trends
Among findings from Dr. Cesar Escalante’s studies is that as the foreign labor supply, chiefly undocumented Latinos, has declined, 67 percent of surveyed Southern state farmers reported having difficulty finding workers.
July 24, 2011
African-American
Models of Success at Minority-serving Institutions
University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania are identifying best practices for retention at nine minority-serving institutions.
July 24, 2011
Latinx
Births, Not New immigrants, Push U.S. Latino Growth
With immigration slowing, babies born in the U.S. rather than newly arrived Mexican immigrants are now driving most of the fast growth in the Latino population.
July 21, 2011
African-American
N.J. Governor Chris Christie, Education Reformer Geoffrey Canada Announce Partnership
Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone engages community partners to develop a holistic, or comprehensive, approach to K-12 education that emphasizes college graduation as the students’ long-term goal.
July 20, 2011
Students
Study Looks at School Discipline in Texas
Almost 60 percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at least once between seventh and 12th grades, according to a new Texas A&M study.
July 19, 2011
African-American
University of Oregon Program Puts Teens on Course
Sunday marked the first day of 2011’s Oregon Young Scholars Program, a weeklong residential program for “historically underrepresented” high-school-age students from a targeted group of schools in the Portland and Eugene areas.
July 18, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Ethnic Art Falling Out of Favor?
Transnational nature of contemporary art draws in history from around the world, thus requiring the academy to change its teaching strategy.
July 13, 2011
African-American
Puerto Rican Scholar Ricardo Alegria Dies at 90
Dr. Ricardo Alegria, a Puerto Rican scholar known for his pioneering studies of the island’s native Taino culture and who is credited with preserving the capital’s colonial district, died Thursday.
July 12, 2011
Latinx
California Program Grooms Math, Science Teachers for Urban K-12 Schools
Cal Teach, a new University of California-Berkeley program, trains math and science teachers for service in urban schools.
July 5, 2011
Latinx
Kellogg Foundation Pursues College Access Agenda
Tribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions are among beneficiaries of the foundation’s diversity-related efforts in U.S. higher education.
June 29, 2011
Latinx
Obama Administration Officials Take High Profile at Senate Hearing on DREAM Act
A congressional hearing on Tuesday breathed new life into the decade-old and oft-thwarted effort to pass the proposed federal DREAM Act, but Democratic leaders concede there is no clear path to enactment and that one of the main obstacles is lack of Republican support.
June 28, 2011
Students
Scholarship Fund Group Seeks Increased Support for Asian American-focused Minority-Serving Schools
Forthcoming report urges that resources should be targeted to Minority-Serving Institutions with high concentration of low-income students from the often “overlooked and underserved” groups of Asian and Pacific Islander students.
June 27, 2011
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