Florida’s Hispanic population surges; few work as UF faculty

“She remembers the day all too well.

In her final year as an undergraduate student at the University of Florida, Jessica Klahar was asked to name the Hispanic faculty member who’d had the greatest influence on her while she was a student. Klahar, a Miami native and the child of Colombian parents, racked her brain. Then she racked it some more.

Nothing came to her.

After a career at the largest university in the state of Florida, where the Hispanic population is booming, Klahar couldn’t think of a single Hispanic faculty member she’d had in a classroom, much less one she admired for teaching.”

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