Higher Education + Top Stories Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

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

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 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

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 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”

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

June 9, 2008

Denver promise of free college is breaking some hearts – Illegal immigrants graduating from high school find that the 2004 pledge won’t cover out-of-state tuition, and they’re not entitled to Colorado resident prices.

April 28, 2008

New study builds on old one to track Mexican American progress – After finding questionnaires from a 1965 survey in a UCLA basement, two professors followed up with about 700 of the participants and their children. The news is good and bad.

April 8, 2008

National Hispanic University debate team notches another big prize

March 24, 2008

Provost-pilot has high hopes for National Hispanic University

March 18, 2008

The University of Uncertainty – Virginia Children of Illegal Immigrants Lack In-State Status – (students – US Citizens – have to prove that parents are in this country legally – wtf!)

February 27, 2008

State’s economy needs more college-educated Latinos – California

February 20, 2008

Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility

February 19, 2008

RIP Catalina Garcia – a Northern Illinois University student from Cicero, Illinois

February 14, 2008

University of California-Berkeley study shows strong support for cross-border health insurance between the U.S. and Mexico

January 9, 2008

Relatives of Rich Rodriguez have been harassed and threatened in the three weeks since his resignation as West Virginia football coach.

January 8, 2008

Over 200 Arizona State University students couldn’t prove legal status – charged out-of-state tuition

December 11, 2007

Dr. Elsa Murano tapped to be President of Nation’s 6th largest University

December 9, 2007

Texs A&M set to name first female and Hispanic president – Elsa Murano sole finalist for job vacated by Robert Gates.

December 6, 2007

Panel: Undocumented students should pay in-state tuition – Oregon

November 27, 2007

Lawyer: Community colleges must admit eligible illegal immigrants – North Carolina

October 25, 2007

Michigan State University to receive $2.3 million to help seasonal, migrant farm youths

October 23, 2007

Senators consider help for immigrants’ kids – Dream Act

Environmental Laws Waived to Press Work on Border Fence

October 15, 2007

Immigrant gardeners provide seed money for college scholarships – Bay Area Gardeners Foundation

October 9, 2007

New Report: College Readiness of Latino Students Improving (except in reading)

September 26, 2007

$17.2 Million Awarded in Grants to Help Hispanic-Serving Institutions

September 20, 2007

Measure Would Offer Legal Status to Illegal Immigrant Students – The Dream Act

September 19, 2007

Comic Puts Newspaper Editor On Hot Seat – Central Connecticut State University’s student paper

August 2, 2007

Merced to use foto-novelas to lure Latino men to college

July 23, 2007

Hispanic college enrollment increases but participation rate lags – Texas

July 15, 2007

Hispanic athletes learn life skills from West Palm professor – Dr. Lynette Nadal

June 26, 2007

Rell vetoes in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant kids – Connecticut

May 10, 2007

Latino group criticizes University of Delaware honor fraternity’s party as offensive

May 9, 2007

Former tenured Spanish professor sues Clemson

May 8, 2007

UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova Named Purdue University President

April 23, 2007

Debate over tuition for illegal immigrants heating up – Massachusetts

March 27, 2007

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Say They’re Being Overlooked For Federal Funds

March 26, 2007

Why so few Latinos pursuing science?

March 20, 2007

GOP group angers Latinos with food stamp drawing – Idaho

March 9, 2007

Few Hispanics in law school

March 8, 2007

“South of the Border” Party Changes Latina’s View of University

March 6, 2007

Research offers insight about Hispanic students

February 16, 2007

Hispanic students perform better in colleges with larger Hispanic communities, UF study finds

February 12, 2007

Barriers to college for Mexican-Americans

January 30, 2007

University of Texas at El Paso graduation rate among lowest in nation

January 29, 2007

Students fear repeal of the in-state tuition perk – Utah

January 26, 2007

Colleges Regroup After Voters Ban Race Preferences – Michigan

January 17, 2007

La Voz Latina sings new song – Latino group changes its name to fight falling membership – University of Michigan

Many Hispanic students enroll at Armstrong Atlantic, but very few graduate – Georgia

January 16, 2007

Rediscovering Latin America at HBS – Club Latino Americano – Harvard Business School

January 8, 2007

I have met this enemy and they really are us

December 18, 2006

Bill to aid illegal immigrants is on track – DREAM Act

December 17, 2006

Illegals to lose in-state tuition – Georgia