Higher Education + Essentials Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
Deporting undocumented students affects the chances for legal return if Congress doesn’t address it in immigration reform bill
November 16, 2009
Oregon universities try to recruit more Latino students – In 2007, Latinos made up nearly 12% of the 12th-grade class and less than 6% of freshmen in the university system. About 20% of first-graders that year were Latino.
November 5, 2009
A top Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) official confirmed that officers were conducting a training exercise at CSUN that involved members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) earlier this semester. – Members said they were targeted and profiled by LAPD officers during their first meeting on Sept. 2. & that they were followed, harassed and intimidated by “undercover police officers” during a ceremony to welcome first-time freshmen to their organization.
October 29, 2009
Moving Beyond Borders from University of Illinois Press – examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies
October 12, 2009
Berklee music school reaches out to Latin America – the school has launched an even more aggressive effort to recruit more and be a dominant force in music education in Spanish-speaking countries.
September 22, 2009
White House seeks advice on getting Hispanics into college
Juan Sepulveda came to Miami on Monday to ask local educators for guidance in how to get more Hispanic students into college
August 24, 2009
Arizona State University’s freshman class of more than 9,200 will include a record 118 National Hispanic Scholars, bringing the total to around 335. ASU has perhaps the highest number of National Hispanic Scholars in the country, up from only 75 in 2002.
Study: Immigration judge as stressed out as emergency room doctors, prison wardens
July 31, 2009
Hispanic enrollment at colleges and universities in Texas would need to almost double by 2015 to meet the state’s higher education goals – Poverty, lack of health insurance, other social ills complicate the challenge.
July 13, 2009
Undocumented people live in a shadowy world of high fear and stress — fear of deportation and stress brought on lack of economic, linguistic and educational resources. – study from UCLA
June 24, 2009
IMMIGRANT YOUTH AND SUPPORTERS URGE CONGRESS TO APPROVE “DREAM ACT” AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO COLLEGE
June 23, 2009
Quartet of Latina professors at Cal State San Bernardino file grievance – Maria Balderrama, Nena Torrez, Barbara Flores & Lynne Diaz-Rico
College enrollment for Hispanic students at Georgia’s public and private schools grew by almost 150 percent, or about 7,700 students, from 1997-2007
June 15, 2009
The president of Texas A&M has resigned — the day before a meeting of school regents to discuss her job. Elsa Murano, the school’s first female and first Hispanic president, announced her resignation in a statement Sunday
June 5, 2009
New & first Hispanic president of Texas A&M University Elsa Murano not getting good grades/reviews
March 4, 2009
The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border
December 22, 2008
A generous donor has offered to match every donation made to the Hispanic College Fund before the end of the year $3-to-$1.
December 10, 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will give nearly $70 million in grants to aid Hispanic education efforts concentrating in New York City, New Mexico and California.
December 5, 2008
Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on a 23-member commission charged with exploring options for creating a national museum dedicated to American Latinos.
November 19, 2008
Joining President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team – Mario Molina, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSD, will help spearhead a group looking at the nation’s science and technology policies. Molina won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research examining the threat posed by chlorofluorocarbon gases, or CFCs, to the Earth’s ozone layer.
November 7, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has looked to South Texas where he selected University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College President Juliet V. Garcia to join his transition team
October 17, 2008
Income gap between whites, Latinos has grown at universities – Advancing in Higher Education: A Portrait Of Latina/o College Freshmen At Four Year Institutions, 1975–2006
September 18, 2008
A state appellate court ruled on Monday that a state law granting subsidized in-state tuition rates to undocumented California college students conflicts with federal law.
September 16, 2008
Arkansas’ colleges and universities can admit illegal immigrants, the Arkansas attorney general’s office says.
September 3, 2008
Professor Shows Relationship Between Lower Wages and Poor English is Larger than Previously Shown – Arthur H. Goldsmith, Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics at W&L, has co-authored an article on “Measuring the Wage Costs of Limited English”
August 17, 2008
North Carolina’s community colleges will remain closed to illegal immigrants, at least until officials can review how other states handle the issue.
July 29, 2008
Many African-American and Latino Families in Danger of Falling Out of Middle Class, According To New Report – 80% of Latino middle-class families are on shaky financial ground
July 28, 2008
North Carolina colleges can admit illegal immigrants, Homeland Security tells state’s Attorney General
June 30, 2008
Border fence would cut through Texas university
June 19, 2008
Successful Practices at 12 Top-Ranked Hispanic-Serving Institutions Provide Lessons On What U.S. Colleges and Universities Can Do To Bolster Results for Latino Students
June 11, 2008
Children in non-English-speaking households experience multiple health disparities, researcher concludes – Dr. Glenn Flores
May 29, 2008
There’s lots to celebrate at Chicano graduation – Cal State Bakersfield
May 22, 2008
Tuition aid to illegal immigrants falters – Massachusetts’ Gov Patrick declines to act on behalf of graduates
The Education Trust’s Web-based tool that compares the graduation rates of different student groups within American four-year colleges and universities is updated with new data
May 21, 2008
“New Center to Study Immigrant Integration” – Mayor Villaraigosa attends a conference featuring the announcement by USC College and the School of Policy, Planning and Develop
May 15, 2008
Illegal immigrant ban a first – State’s move has shaken up the academic world – North Carolina’s community colleges ban on illegal immigrants
April 15, 2008
Did You Know? The University of California system admitted 12,432 students of Hispanic descent – that’s 1,717 or 16% more than last year
