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The Marquette University College of Education will host Dr. Alberta M. Gloria, a professor of counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as the Association of Marquette University Women’s ( AMUW ) Chair in Humanistic Studies for 2008-2009.

Gloria brings her expertise in the psychological and socio-cultural factors affecting Hispanic and other racial and ethnic minority students in higher education to the position. The AMUW Chair was established in 1963 as a lectureship and endowed in 1989 to support a year-long appointment. The purpose of the chair is to celebrate the humanities and promote the role of women in higher education through bringing distinguished female scholars to campus.

In addition to her faculty role in the Department of Counseling Psychology at UW, Gloria served as the Director for the Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Program. She also served on the faculty of the University of Utah after receiving a doctorate in counseling psychology from Arizona State University. She is a co-editor of The Latina/o Pathway to the Ph.D.: Abriendo Caminos and is currently co-editing What! No Flan? A Reflection of Latina/o Students in Higher Education. She has also published numerous articles in professional journals. She has received several teaching and research awards, including the 2008 Outstanding Latina/o Faculty in Research/Teaching in Higher Education Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.

Gloria will teach a graduate seminar on Latina/os in higher education in the fall. As the AMUW Chair, she will also be responsible for delivering the Eleanor H. Boheim Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities.

Previous holders of the AMUW Chair have included Mary Burgan, former chair of the English Department at Indiana University and past Executive Secretary of the American Association of University Professors; A. Manette Ansay, a prominent author and professor of creative writing; Janine Geske, a former justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court; Judith Mayotte, an internationally renowned peace activist; and, most recently, Karyn Holm, professor of nursing at DePaul University who specializes in cardiovascular nursing, ethics, and women’s health.

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Scholarship Sponsored by Verizon, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional
Verizon will partner with Hermandad Mexicana Nacional to contribute nearly $10,000 to the Latino Angelino Scholarship Fund.
The Latino Angelino Scholarships are open to applicants of Latino descent and will be awarded based on financial need and academic achievement. The $1,000 scholarships are for high school graduates and community college students who plan to attend an accredited four-year institution.
“Education is key to the high-skill, high-paying jobs of tomorrow,” said Elva Lima, vice president - strategic programs, Verizon. “These scholarships are an investment in a brighter tomorrow for our communities.”
Applications must be delivered or postmarked by August 11 to Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, 7915 Van Nuys Boulevard, Panorama City, CA 91402. Complete requirements and rules are available by calling Esmerelda Chaires at 818-989-3019.
The winners will be announced during Celebracion Angelina 2008 con Pablo Montero at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles August 15.
About Celebracion Angelina 2008 con Pablo Montero
Tickets for “Celebracion Angelina 2008 con Pablo Montero” are available at Ritmo Latino locations throughout Southern California and at the Ford Amphitheatre Box Office, located at 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East in Hollywood or by calling 323-GO-1-FORD (323-461-3673). For online ticket purchasing, log on to www.FordTheatres.org. Tickets are $55 in advance or $60 at the door the day of the event. A $5 ticket discount can also be received when purchasing a concert ticket at the Ford Box Office when taking Metro (Bus #163 or #656 /Metro Red Line). For more information, mass transit commuters can log on to www.metro.net or call (800) COMMUTE. “

A new television web channel has just emerged. It is Lingus.tv (www.lingus.tv), a channel dedicated to teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Lingus.tv is fundamentally distinguished for basing its teaching method on a sitcom, its own production, making the core issues of its teaching model funny, entertaining and amusing.

“Our aim is to promote interest in studying Spanish in a pleasant, attractive way, based on the concept of leisure,” affirms Sergio Gazeau (www.lasbuenaslenguas.com), founder of Lingus.tv. “The Internet has become the principal leisure tool of society, especially among young people, and our challenge is to have fun whilst learning”, he adds.

Following the trend marked by Internet, the Lingus.tv teaching system is based on a philosophy of self-service, where the users have a video library of contents available classified in levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) labeled depending on the themes they cover and the linguistic skills they teach. Among these themes we can find chapters like “Mi rutina” or “Pacocinando”, where one of its characters, Paco, shows the user how to cook a typical Spanish dish: the Spanish potato omelette, all marked in a frame of humour.

Each episode of the series will come with its Spanish sub-titles and will last approximately two minutes. Video is the core to the education process and includes its respective teaching material: complete transcript of the script, English translation and a selection of notes that introduce grammatical and cultural concepts.

In the words of its founder, “The project, that is filmed in different parts of Spain, aims at being something more than just teaching Spanish, become a true window display of the culture and life style in Spain.” With this twofold objective, the chapters that appear on the web “will gradually not only introduce grammatical or semantic concepts, but also sayings, proverbs and cultural elements specific to our country. We want foreigners to learn man-in-the-street Spanish and make them gradually assimilate our culture and form of communicating with one another,” he concludes.

Lingus.tv broadcasts new episodes of its sitcom every Tuesday and Thursday and in the next few months, it will extend its offer of contents to include new programmes on its programming grid.

For more information, please consult our web site, www.lingus.tv, or contact us on:

LingusTV — Communication Dept.

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