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March 10, 2010

Health Disparities Among State’s Hispanic Community Focus of March 24 Lecture at The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Greivis Vasquez had a choice last summer: stay in the NBA draft, or return to help Maryland to its best season during his tenure. – Terrapins fans can thank Vasquez’s mother, Ivis. The rest of the ACC can blame her.

Univision comes to University of Arizona – The “Es El Momento” campaign (which translates to “The Moment is Now”)

St. Norbert College recently held “Para un Futuro Mejor” (For a Better Future) to give Hispanic and Latino high school juniors and seniors a taste of college life.

March 9, 2010

Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation Partners with Hispanic College Fund to Prepare Future Hispanic Professionals – $125,000 Donation Will Support HCF’s Professional Development Pipeline

40th anniversary of Northeastern Illinois University’s El Centro campus

Creative non-fiction taught by Latina artist & educator Elizabeth Marino – Northeastern Illinois University

Javier Gonzales, chairman of the New Mexico Democratic Party, spoke to UNM students – encouraging Latinos to pursue Ph.D.s

California State University system Campaign Looks to Increase Latino Enrollment

Higher ed gender gap seems stable–except for Hispanics – The percentage of male Hispanic undergraduates aged 24 or younger fell from 45%in 1999–2000 to 42% in 2007–08.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien spoke during West Virginia University’s Festival of Ideas Lecture on Monday night.

March 8, 2010

Elias Provencio-Vasquez, RN, PhD, has been appointed dean of The University of Texas at El Paso School of Nursing.

Latino Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) Update – University of California-San Bernardino

March 5, 2010

National Latino Children’s Literature Conference: Connecting Culture & Celebrating Cuentos – Alabama – April 23rd and 24th, 2010

Immigration law, reform focus of campus event – Ohio State

Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) announced today that the Wolfpack Sports Network and ESPN Deportes 1550 AM have teamed up to offer Triangle listeners the first ever Spanish broadcast of a North Carolina State University sporting event. The Wolfpack will host Boston College at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, and the game will be broadcast live across the Triangle on (WCLY) 1550 AM ESPN Deportes.

March 3, 2010

Arizona State University Professor Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, will be honored by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) with its Outstanding Support of Hispanic Issues in Higher Education Award.

Hispanic Scholars Honored for Dissertations

Cabarrus College of Health Sciences is extending a special invitation to prospective Latino students and their families for the Tuesday, March 23 Open House from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – North Carolina

Washington University, along with Saint Louis University (SLU), University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and other local universities, is working to form the St. Louis Coalition for Latino Research

Dalton State gets grant for Hispanic students – $500,000 grant from the Atlanta-based Goizueta Foundation

9th annual Latina Connection Conference to empower Latina students at Cal State Long Beach

Attorney Antonio Arocho Donates Book Collection to Esperanza College

March 2, 2010

Independent filmmaker Paul Espinosa, an Arizona State University professor, will receive the Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Fine or Performing Arts from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE).

March 1, 2010

The Social and Economic Integration of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles – Presented by Rafael Alarcón and Luis Escala-Rabadán on March 2 at 2:00 PM @ Univesity of California, San Diego

Coach Martin brings top Latino talent to Kansas State

The University of Texas at Arlington Department of History and the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies will present the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures March 10 and 11. The series is titled “The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940.”

Loyola Marymount University recognized for exemplary leadership in addressing Latino students’ needs

February 25, 2010

Chicana scholars to celebrate Women’s History Month at UTSA

Jimmy Smits chats with acting students, Latino students at Cornell Univesity

February 22, 2010

Liberty University Strengthens Ties with Hispanic Evangelicals, Adds Online Academy to its Agreement

Stetson Law Excels Nationwide Among Law Schools Graduating Hispanic Students

February 18, 2010

Registration is open for the 2010 ¡Soy Única! ¡Soy Latina! Rally slated for March 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the University of Rochester’s River Campus – NY

Español is the new recruiting tool for colleges and universities

University of Florida Spanish-language radio program will launch tonight – Noticias WUFT

Higher Education for Latinos: Financing a College Education

$2.9 Million National Science Foundation Grant Attracts Minorities to STEM Fields – UTEP

SACNAS partners with largest scientific society to increase the diversity of U.S. chemists

February 17, 2010

Harvard Considers Putting Out Admissions Materials in Spanish

Members of an Inland Latino coalition will meet with UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy White next month to ask him to appoint a new education-school dean who will make the needs of English language learners and ethnic minority students a priority.

February 16, 2010

The lack of black and Hispanic professors, highlighted in two recent reports critical of the faculty makeup at MIT and Emerson College, is a problem shared by the most prominent universities in the Boston area, a Globe survey reveals.

February 15, 2010

Rutgers-Newark Community to Honor the Life of Late Professor – Professor Hilda Hidalgo

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities will bring its nationwide HACU on the Road tour to San Antonio on Feb. 18.

Aida Hurtado has been appointed as the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies’s new chair at UCSB and has also received the honor being appointed to the Luis Leal Endowed Chair

New Program Aims to Bring Culture, Folklore of Latin America to Ithaca – Cornell

NCLR and Pepsico Foundation Create Pathways to College and Careers for Latino Youth

More Latino students are going away to college – Many find it difficult to break from cultural traditions, but they and their families can see benefits

Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia recently received a $450,000 grant from the Goizueta Foundation – will be used to provide need-based scholarship assistance to Hispanic students and hire a bilingual Hispanic student enrollment counselor.

ImmigrationProf Blog: Immigrant of the Day: Jorge Gutierrez (Mexico) a sophomore on the University of California basketball team.

February 12, 2010

“Justice and Power: A Dialogue” 13th Annual Harvard Latino Law and Policy Conference March 5 -7, 2010

February 11, 2010

UC Berkeley may be missing out on opportunities for federal funding due to the campus’s low population of Hispanic students.

Educating Latinos for Kentucky’s Future, a group dedicated to informing Latinos about post-secondary educational opportunities, is holding its first conference on the campus of Northern Kentucky University

The School of Rural Public Health was recently honored by the Latino Leaders Magazine when Dean Ciro V. Sumaya was named one of the “101 Most Influential Leaders in the Hispanic Community” – Texas A&M

February 10, 2010

Palm Beach State College commended for Hispanic outreach

Lipscomb University is helping sponsor a conference Friday for Latino college and high school students – TN

Latino GLBT group forms for campus support at Indiana University

February 8, 2010

U.S. Colleges Court Hispanic Families Using Espanol

February 2, 2010

Lecturer speaks on Mexican migration at Michigan State University

February 1, 2010

2010 Applications Now Being Accepted for the Lopez Negrete Hispanic Marketing Education Fund Scholarship

CHCI & Walmart Partner to Create Year-Round Internships for Latino Undergraduates

January 29, 2010

After some discussion, the Minnesota State Student Association decided to table a motion regarding their recomendation on the controversial Latino Center.

Brown University’s U.S. Latino Studies program recently received a $125,000 endowment through the Rodriguez ’83 U.S. Latino Studies Challenge, spearheaded by Carmen Rodriguez ’83 and her husband as well as other alumni donors.

Latino students protest for immigrant rights at Rutgers

Luis Leal dies at 102; scholar of Mexican, Chicano and Latin American literature

January 28, 2010

Indiana University, Ivy Tech to Co-Sponsor Indiana Latino Conference Feb. 27, 2010

Latino Student Union protests Student Senate; asks for removal of SG President – University of Toledo

January 26, 2010

More men are attending college and graduating with a bachelor’s degree, reversing the tendency of female undergraduates to outnumber men and outperform them academically, according to a new report out Tuesday. – One notable exception is young Hispanic men – especially new immigrants – who are falling further behind Hispanic women.

DREAM Act Summit in Sacramento – February 3, 2010

January 25, 2010

Fewer Mexican Americans were admitted to law schools in 2008 than in 1993

News that Maria Ferrier has been named the sole finalist to head Texas A&M University-San Antonio brings to four the number of Hispanics leading institutions of higher learning in San Antonio.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Partners with CollegeWeekLive to Help High School Students Gain Access to Higher Education

Latino Community outreach conference brings students to Washington State University

Birth Rates and Border Crossings: The Demographic Push Behind Emigration in the Americas – University of California, San Diego

High school seniors and college students interested in transferring will get to tour Bay Path College with their families during an open house geared toward Latina students. – MA

The first ambassadors of the Hispanic Leadership Institute graduated from Saginaw Valley State University Thursday.

University of Kansas unveils Spanish-language version of Web site

January 22, 2010

SEI students represent Texas A&M Engineering at Houston Hispanic Forum

January 20, 2010

UTEP’s Bracero Project Wins National Recognition – Mexican Worker Program Addressed Agriculture Labor Shortage During WW2, UTEP Preserves its History

January 19, 2010

M&T Bank Offers Hispanic College Fund Scholarship

January 14, 2010

National report names A&M-Kingsville effective in Latino STEM Education

MIT lags in hiring, promoting black, Hispanic faculty, internal report says

Dr. Manuel Pina Jr., with the Texas A&M University department of agricultural leadership, education and communication, received a 2009 Vice Chancellor’s Award of Excellence in the area of system academic partnership

Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) has been recognized nationally as one of 25 universities in the country with effective practices for increasing the number of Hispanic students earnings degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

University of Texas trails state demographics with minority, low-income students – between 2003 and 2008 the number of undergraduate Hispanic students enrolled rose from 5,478 to 6,980

January 12, 2010

The University of Texas at San Antonio ranked third in the nation among Hispanic Serving Institutions in the number of math and science degrees awarded to Hispanic students.

Newly introduced bill to help students with illegal immigrant status – Georgia

New Jersey legislature denies in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

A new study carried out by the Urban Education Center of the University of South California, considered TAMIU as one of the top 25 universities in the nation for the education of Latino students.

List of Courses of interest to Hispanics y Latinos – St. Louis University College

January 11, 2010

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and the U.S. Army Sign Education Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

January 7, 2010

New Jersey bill on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants advances

The administration, staff and students of the University of Guadalajara are asking the Mexican Attorney General’s Office to investigate violence and threats directed against members of the university community in the western city.

Law School Admissions Lag Among Minorities – “What’s happening, as the American population becomes more diverse, is that the lawyer corps and judges are remaining predominantly white”

January 5, 2010

Minority students growing in number at some college campuses – Minnesota

An Undocumented Princetonian – (a good read)

January 4, 2010

Latino numbers surge at public universities through – Latinos are the fastest growing minority group on the campuses of ISU, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa, as they are in Iowa and the nation.

December 18, 2009

Juarez violence sparks Sun Bowl fears for University of Oklahoma fans

December 17, 2009

Video: Assumption College freshman Carolina Correa becomes 1st Latina to be Boys and Girls Clubs of America Youth of the Year

Eduardo Padrón, Floridian of the Year – A relentless advocate for community colleges, the Miami Dade College president gained the ear of President Obama and helped change the way the United States views community colleges.

UTSA Mexico Center admitted to Inter-University Program for Latino Research

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