Tag: Hispanic/Chicano/Latino Studies: Page 7

Students

An Ethnic Studies Evolution

As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso…

November 29, 2006

Students

HACU Receives $8 Million Scholarship for Study Abroad Students

SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities has received an $8 million scholarship grant from Global Learning Semesters, Inc. as part of an effort to send more Hispanic students abroad to study.

October 30, 2006

Latinx

Systemic Change in Higher Ed Needed to Achieve Truly Diverse Academy

PHILADELPHIA Higher education needs systemic institutional change in order for colleges and universities to become truly diverse and multicultural.

October 23, 2006

Latinx

Study: Latin History Teaching Standards Lacking

American schools are doing a poor job of teaching history and culture of Latin America and Mexico, according to a new review of states’ world history teaching standards conducted by the Washington, D.C.,-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

June 5, 2006

Latinx

Study Details How U.S. Can Lessen

By taking the right measures, the United States could end its dependence on oil imported from the Middle East by 2025, says a recent study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley…

May 3, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was presented with two proposals to boost multicultural research at the university…

April 19, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was…

April 18, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies a Deal Breaker for Some Harvard Faculty

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was presented with two proposals to…

March 26, 2006

Latinx

Educational System Fails Chicano Students at Every Level, Says Report

Educators, policy makers, community leaders and other stakeholders must do more to combat the dismal high school and college graduation rates of Chicano students…

March 23, 2006

African-American

Cornell Study Says Upstate Mexicans Largely Invisible

A new study by Cornell University finds more Mexican farmworkers are settling in rural upstate New York…

January 25, 2006

Latinx

Neither Enemies Nor Friends

In Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos, the 15 contributing authors explore relationships between Blacks, Latinos and Afro-Latinos, and point out both the striking similarities and differences in the racial politics of the Americas…

November 30, 2005

Latinx

Neither Enemies Nor Friends

In Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos, the 15 contributing authors…

November 30, 2005