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Sep 08, 2008; López-Isa, Suzanne ... The fake diploma mill saga continues. Valerie Strauss of The Washington Post reported that the feds have the names of 9,612 people believed to have at least inquired about a phony degree offered by fake schools that the government was investigating. It has released the list to state attorneys ...
Our Troubled and Maligned President
Sep 08, 2008; Conde, Carlos D ... President Bush has about five months left in his second term, and if things keep going the way they are now, there are a lot of Americans ready to rank him among the worst presidents ever. I don't know if it's fair. There are a lot of different criteria in rating a president because ...
As Presidents Retire, Will Institutions Dip into the Rich Untapped Pool of Candidates?
Sep 08, 2008; DiMaria, Frank E ... Change is inevitable; and the world of higher education is not immune to it. In the coming decade, as the first baby boomers enter into retirement, higher education will experience a major change in presidential leadership. In 2007, the American Council on Education (ACE) released its ...
Language Wars: Diversity and the English Only Movement
Sep 08, 2008; Rodríguez, Tomás D; Sundman, Ashley ... Miami, Fla., is home to what many would consider the most important multilingual and multicultural experience in the history of the United States. For some urban sociologists, "Miami has become the nation's first full-fledged experiment in bicultural living in the contemporary era." The degree ...
Community Colleges Using Data to Get Results
Sep 08, 2008; Gilroy, Marilyn ... Community colleges are stepping up efforts to use institutional research to nprove student success. Many two-year schools are engaging in sophiscated strategic planning that is based on collecting and analyzing data to pinpoint problems, identify solutions and improve programs and ...
Scholars' Corner
Sep 08, 2008; López, Francisco A ... I am a graduate student in a doctoral program in counseling psychology at the University at Buffalo, with a focus on chronic illness and health-related quality of life among individuals and their families. My graduate mentor, Dr. James P. Donnelly, introduced me to the American Association of ...
Hispanic Direction for the Election
Sep 08, 2008; Jenkins, A Francesca ... Hispanics are expected to vote in record numbers in the presidential election this year. According to fresh data gathered by the William C. Velásquez Institute (WCVI), a national public policy and research institute, more than one million new Latinos registered to vote in 2008, with more than ...
MSU Launches First Ph.D. in Chicano/Latino Studies in Midwest, Second in Nation
Sep 08, 2008; Gardner, Sandra ... There's a niño nuevo (new kid) on the campus in Midwest academia. Michigan State University (MSU) launched the first doctoral program in Chicano/Latino studies (CLS) in the Midwest, and it's only the second in the nation. (The first program, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program that trains ...
Report Describes Proven Pathways to Success for Minority Students
Sep 08, 2008; McGlynn, Angela Provitera ... What if our nation were able to solve a major problem in our society, namely, the college graduation gap between Whites and many minority and low-income students? Not only would this positively affect the lives of low-income students, minority students and students who are the first in their ...
Teaching Teachers
Sep 08, 2008; Orchowski, Peggy Sands ... Its a curious fact of many comprehensive reform studies that when they are over, the results often find that the solution is something everyone already knows - intuitively. So it is with decades of research on educational success. The "duh" result: "It's the teacher that makes the difference ....
Building Resilience
Sep 08, 2008; Rivera, Miquela ... Some things in life are easier than others, but the hard times stick out in our minds. For many people, the hard times - and the ability to get beyond them - define who they are. Why are some people able to adapt to change readily? Why do others buckle under pressure? Resilience ...
Nogales Takes on Bias, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes and the Media
Sep 08, 2008; Jenkins, A Francesca ... Alex Nogales has been educating the media for years, taking it to task for its failure to adequately represent Latinos and pressuring it to hire more Latinos. As president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), a nonprofit media advocacy organization that Nogales helped ...
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Sep 08, 2008; Orchowski, Peggy Sands ... VETS GET COLLEGE BENEFITS - AND THEIR KIDS, HUGE DEBT - It was a bill that seemed absolutely impossible for anyone to oppose: providing educational benefits to our Iraq war veterans when they leave the military. Who wouldn't want to reward them for their liferisking volunteer service by ...
TRPI Report Links Minority Gaps in Critical Fields to Decline of Affirmative Action
Sep 08, 2008; Jenkins, A Francesca ... A report released recently by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI), African-American and Latino Enrollment Trends among Medicine, Law, Business and Public Affairs Graduate Programs, gives an overview of action policy and cases in the courts and analyzes the relationship between affirmative ...
Diversity Exemplified throughout Texas A&M Health Science Center
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... Nearly a decade into the 21st century, racial and ethnic minority populations continue climbing steadily, bringing together varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds to make the United States the "melting pot" it is today. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...
USHCC Helps Guide Bill Promoting a Better Trained Labor Force
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... WASHINGTON, D.C. (PR Newswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE) - The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the national representative for 2.5 million Hispanic-owned businesses, applauds Sen. Biliary Clinton and Reps. Mike Honda, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rubén Hinojosa for introducing the Strengthening ...
Actualizing Its Demographic Destiny: Challenges and Opportunities for Hispanic America
Sep 08, 2008; Acevedo, Baltazar Arispe y Jr ... The inordinate growth of the Hispanic population in the United States from 22.4 million in 1990 to 35.3 million in 2000 could be seen as a baseline to gauge this community's development. Now the largest ethnic community in the United States, surpassing the African-American, some Hispanics see ...
TRPI Report Reveals Lack of Disaster Preparedness for Immigrant and Limited-English Communities
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... LOS ANGELES. Calif. The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) recently released a joint study that finds that immigrant and limited-Englishproficient populations are not fully incorporated in disaster preparedness and emergency response ...
1,000 Top Students of Color Start College in Fall as Gates Millennium Scholars
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... FAIRFAX. Va. This fall, one thousand highly talented students of color will begin their college experience as Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS). The 2008 class of Gates Millennium Scholars graduated from more than 800 high schools, represents 47 states and American territories, and will ...
Observing 30th Anniversary of Bakke, MALDEF Continues to Fight for Equal Access and Diversity in Higher Education
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... LOS ANGELES. Calit Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). The ruling struck down a University of California-Davis Medical School admissions program that set aside a specified number of seats for racial ...