Tag: Latino Fraternity/Sorority: Page 20

Faculty & Staff

900 Jackson State Students Getting iPads

Nine hundred Jackson State University students are taking part in a program in which they will receive iPads for school work.

September 4, 2012

Latinx

Veteran Educator Leads John Jay College’s Prison Re-Entry Institute

For roughly 40 years, Ann Jacobs has been helping the formerly incarcerated navigate a post-prison world.

September 18, 2011

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.

July 13, 2011

African-American

Puerto Rican Scholar Ricardo Alegria Dies at 90

Dr. Ricardo Alegria, a Puerto Rican scholar known for his pioneering studies of the island’s native Taino culture and who is credited with preserving the capital’s colonial district, died Thursday.

July 12, 2011

Asian American Pacific Islander

Latinos, Asians Fuel Calif.’s Population Growth

In the period from 2000 to 2010, the state’s Latino population grew by 28 percent, to 14 million in the nation’s most populous state, while Asian numbers grew by 31 percent, to 4.8 million.

March 10, 2011

Latinx

Undocumented “Dreamwalkers” Ponder Next Moves For DREAM Act, Immigration Reform Activism

Young Latinos, such as the four ‘Dreamwalkers’ who walked from Miami to Washington to bring attention to undocumented students, have become increasingly engaged in immigration reform activism.

May 13, 2010

Disabilties

Road to the Battle

Despite financial difficulties, the Virginia State University Trojan Explosion Marching Band cranks it up as they prepare for their trip to the ultimate HBCU showcase, the Honda Battle of the Bands. Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be the best musical ensemble in the country–heart, dedication, and lots of practice.

March 1, 2010

Latinx

UT-Austin Professor Works To Close Latino Gender Gap in Higher Ed

Dr. Victor Saenz, an assistant professor of higher education administration at The University of Texas at Austin, has been at the forefront of the Latino male student achievement issue and on a crusade to move policymakers to action before it’s too late.

February 28, 2010

African-American

Dispelling HIV/AIDS Myths in Black Community

Claudia Pryor’s documentary explores the attitudes and awareness among Black youth in Pittsburgh about HIV/AIDS that will be the basis of a new curricula to dispel the myths surrounding Blacks with the disease

December 13, 2009

Students

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Tribal Nations Conference

Duncan addresses reasons why students struggle and proposes ways to help Native American students, starting at the preschool level.

November 10, 2009

Latinx

Mexican students to be recognized Friday

The California-Mexico Project (CMP), headed by CSULB Chicano/Latino Studies professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Mexico’s National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES) arranged the study abroad program. Dr. Ana Uribe of Mexico’s University of Colima directed the program and its research component.  According to the Daily 49er.com, among them are seven undergraduates from three […]

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Battle It Out

Highlights from the 2008 Honda Battle of the Bands, held in Atlanta. Music from North Carolina Central University’s marching band, Sound Machine, directed by Jorim E. Reid, is featured in the slide show.

July 28, 2009