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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.

Raymund Paredes

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.

Aloizio Mercadante

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Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites, Minorities

The wealth gaps between Whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.

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.

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.

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.

Cesar Escalante

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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.

Marybeth Gasman

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.

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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.

Geoffrey Canada

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.

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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.

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.

Dr. Patricia Hills

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