Tag: Hispanics/Latino: Page 20

Latinx

Purdue Latinos celebrate Cordova presidency

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. Sophomore Elizabeth Gutierrez sometimes felt out of place at Purdue University. That was before she became active in its Latino Cultural Center and the school hired its first Hispanic president, France Cordova.

September 16, 2007

Latinx

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

September 5, 2007

Latinx

HACU Seeks Answers From Presidential Candidates

In its first large-scale effort to draw attention from the highest level of government to Hispanic higher education issues, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) this summer asked all of the announced presidential candidates what they would do to provide greater higher education opportunities for Hispanics. Three Democratic candidates have responded so far.

August 18, 2007

Latinx

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

Latinx

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

African-American

Kmart launches multicultural doll brands as popularity of ethnic toys grows

CHICAGO Toy store aisles are getting a multicultural makeover.

August 12, 2007

Latinx

Setting the Record Straight About Latino Images

Heritage presumes records — tales captured for retrieval. This nation’s most relentless archive is the media — but not for Hispanic women and youth. Their images are absent.

July 14, 2007

Students

Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn

AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.

July 12, 2007

Latinx

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny

As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the implications of the treaty which ended the war, and its political relevance and meaning to modern Mexico-U.S. relations.

July 12, 2007

Latinx

Academic turf war at East Los Angeles: move to include course on Central Americans in Chicano Studies Department meets resistance – East Lost Angeles College

Monterey Park, Calif. East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is the site of a controversy that many people have seen coming for a long time. It revolves around what appears to be an academic battle over turf.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access

Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

Making It Happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

June 27, 2007