The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education back issues from January 2008:
Esquina Editorial
Jan 07, 2008; ... Welcome to our 2007 Year in Review Issue, which offers the "Best Of columnists Carlos Conde and Peggy Orchowski, our feature articles, Book Reviews and ¡Punto Final! essays. It was not a Best Year for higher education, marred by scandals over student loans, heated debate over No Child Left ...
Hispanics in High School and College
Jan 07, 2008; ... Are the educational experiences of Hispanic high school students different from those of other students? Researcher Richard Fry has studied the issue and thinks they definitely are - in a number of ways. None of them are particularly advantageous to Hispanics. A step further up the ...
Political Beat
Jan 07, 2008; ... Mexico's Democracy Hirns Rowdy Winston Churchill, at the House of Commons in 1947, said, "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to ...
Challenges Faced in 2007 ... A Year in Review
Jan 07, 2008; ... Each year, The Hispanic Outlook does a review of the important topics and issues of the preceding 12 months. And while there are varying degrees of progress and lack of progress for challenges facing Hispanics in higher education, those same challenges crop up year after year in our reporting ....
Congress Tackles the Wrenching Problem: How to Pay for a College Education
Jan 07, 2008; ... Who says Congress can't be relevant? In early May, the House Education and Labor Commi-ttee's Subcommittee on Higher Education under, the chairmanship of Rubén Hinojosa, D-Texas, conducted a three-hour hearing on one of the most wrenching problems facing American families today - paying for a ...
Womens' Studies: Past, Present, Future
Jan 07, 2008; ... "You've come a long way, baby." So went the 1970s cigarette advertisement for Virginia Slims, trying to appeal to the new, liberated woman with a cigarette to call her own. In the educational realm, the women's liberation movement sparked the second wave of feminism and spotlighted the ...
Census Realities
Jan 07, 2008; ... It's a rainy Sunday afternoon. Good as he is, John Grisham begins to repeat himself. A judicious flicking of the remote control proves there is nothing worthwhile on television. So I pick up a random copy of a Census report. (Yes, I read almanacs as well.) Actually, I don't have a single ...
Where Are the Black and Latino M.B.A.s?
Jan 07, 2008; ... VVhy there tnere stil so few Hispanics and African-Americans in M.B.A. programs? According to business education experts, some of the reasons are: the atmosphere at business schools, swings in the economy, the recent bad rap of the corporate world, the socially conscious attitude of the ...
Making Campuses Safer
Jan 07, 2008; ... These days, parents worry about where their children will get into college and how to pay for it. But there is another concern looming on the horizon when families get ready to send their sons and daughters off to campus: How safe is the place where their children will be spending the next few ...
Potential Engineers Benefit from Mentoring
Jan 07, 2008; ... As distinguished engineer María Azúa described some of the reasons why women and Americans in general shy away from engineering as a career, she turned her attention to television. "People watch TV about how cool doctors and lawyers are, but they don't see programs that say how cool programmers ...
Concerns Aired at 20 House Immigration Hearings
Jan 07, 2008; ... From April 19 until June 19, 2007, the House Judiciary Sub-Committee on Immigration a something that the Senate, which was considering an omnibus immigration bill at the same time, never did. It conducted more than 100 hours of hearings on important immigration issues to determine how a ...
Measuring Up and Other Reports Spot Problems
Jan 07, 2008; ... Not only has the U.S. fallen behind other nations in educating young adults and workers, but college affordability has continued to deteriorate for most American students and their families, according to Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education, from the National Center ...
Minority Students & College Success: Real Challenges/Real Solutions
Jan 07, 2008; ... "In terms of opportunities for college, our society is not a level playing field," says David T. Conley, Ph.D., professor and director of the research center for educational policy, University of Oregon. "Middle and upper classes have far more access to the right information than ...
TEN BEST OF UNCENSORED
Jan 07, 2008; ... Not Enough Ed Debt? - Some U.S. educational experts (who shall remain unnamed) recently expressed concern about Latino parents' spending habits. They are noticing that Latinos tend to save their money! They live frugally. They sacrifice to send money back to their homelands. And they seem to be ...
Minority Representation in Graduate Schools Increases, Says CGS
Jan 07, 2008; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has reported that the proportion of students in American graduate schools who were members of a racial/ethnic minority group rose to 28 percent in 2006, from 26 percent in 2005. The survey report Graduate Enrollment and ...
Campus Visits Significant to Recruiting First-Generation Students: Eduventures
Jan 07, 2008; ... BOSTON, Mass. Colleges and universities looking to successfully recruit first-generation students and students from low-socioeconomic-status (SES) backgrounds need to increase efforts to bring them to their campuses, according to Eduventures' latest report, Building the Low-SES and ...
Open Doors Report Shows a Rebound in International Student Enrollment
Jan 07, 2008; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. The number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States increased by 3 percent to a total of 582,984 in the 2006-07 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). The organization's Open Doors report is ...
College Board Rallies Members to Help Low-Income Students Get College Degrees
Jan 07, 2008; ... NEW YORK, N.Y. In one of its boldest advocacy programs ever, the College Board is launching the CollegeKeys Compact to support middle and high school students from low-income famiUes as they work toward preparing for, getting into, and succeeding in college. The program will mobilize the ...
2007 MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS, APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
Jan 07, 2008; ... People & Places NASA's Ordóñez Named Woman of the Year (1-29-07) The Worldwide Association of Mexicans Abroad, helping to build an international network of Hispanic business owners, has recognized NASA employee Elia Ordóñez as the 2006 National Hispanic Woman of the Year for ...
2007 - A Good Year for ¡PUNTO FINAL!
Jan 07, 2008; ... The iPunto Final! column, one of which appears on the hack cover of all but this January issue, offers a window into 20-some minds and worlds each year - succincdy, and often, persuasively. The 2007 roundup includes essays by 13 women and 10 men. Thirteen were previously, or are ...
STRATEGY, PASSION, INSPIRATION: EXCERPTS FROM ¡PUNTO FINAL! 2007
Jan 07, 2008; ... Shall the Moral Values We Teach Be Exclusive or Inclusive? David Brooks writes in the June 27 New York Times that "American schools are awash in moral instruction - on sex, multiculturalism, environmental awareness, and so on - and basically none of it works." His argument is clearly ...
Highlights of 2007 Book Reviews
Jan 07, 2008; ... In the Feb. 12, 2007, issue, Alberto Huerta, University of San Francisco, reviewed Gavin Menzies' 1421, The Year China Discovered America and highlighted the reception that met Menzies' claim that the Chinese had made landfall on the Latin American coast centuries before any ...
Hispanic Students: A Statistical Overview
Jan 07, 2008; ... The following is a statistical overview focusing on the status of Hispanic students enrolled in institutions of higher learning in the U.S. The information gleaned is from various sources: the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Hispanic ...
Forecast for 2008 - NCLB and Title IX Will Make News This Year
Jan 07, 2008; ... Hispanic and higher education issues will be fiercely debated in 2008 as Americans decide who should be the next president of the United States. Not surprisingly, candidates running for office in 2008 have zeroed in on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and women's rights in ...
New Reports from ACT(TM) Chart Improvements and Shortfalls
Jan 07, 2008; ... The 2007 ACT College Readiness Report contains positive and encouraging news regarding America's high school students' readiness for college, but it also raises concerns in certain areas. One of those positives is the ACT composite score. For the third time in the past five years, the ...
Are Our Colleges Failing Our Students?
Jan 07, 2008; ... A recent survey of whether colleges were increasing their students' basic knowledge of America's history and institutions claims a strange correlation. It seems, to the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), that how much coUege students at American colleges know about American ...
The Shifting State of Admissions
Jan 07, 2008; ... Colleges and universities around the country have progressively raised their undergraduate admissions standards as standardized test scores, and grade point averages have steadily risen. For high school seniors, this means that it is becoming progressively more difficult to get into the ...
Esquina Editorial
Jan 28, 2008; ... Bless you, NAICU, for your heartening update on what private colleges are doing to address the high cost of higher ed. It's a welcome relief from continuing reports of mismanagement, questionable practices by those issuing student loans, and now - hints that the shameful subprime mortgage crisis ...
"The Tethered Generation"
Jan 28, 2008; ... By Kathryn Tyler, HR Magazine, May 2007 Imagine a professor being called into the office of the department chair and informed of a student's parents' complaint that their daughter felt intimidated upon being told that the professor expects hard work and sacrifice from the ...
It's About Dollars and Cents - My Cents, Their Dollars
Jan 28, 2008; ... After you read this, if I tell you how much I get for writing this column, you might think I was desperate. If I added that I do it, in part, as we Latinos say, "'por amor at arte," you would probably say I was nuts. This came to mind late one night while I was scanning the newspapers ...
20 Tips on Getting the Most Financial Aid
Jan 28, 2008; ... According to an October 2007 survey by the College Board, the cost of a college education is rising at 6 percent a year, double the rate of inflation. The average annual tuition at a four-year public college is $6,185, and that does not include books and room and board; and the average tuition ...
Making College Affordable: One Man's Savvy Plan
Jan 28, 2008; ... With rising tuition and expenses, financing an education can seem overwhelming. Parents worry about how to afford it, but want to give their kids a chance they might not have had. Money, or lack of it, should not determine whether a child goes on to college, says financial consultant ...
Big News for Hispanics in ACE and NCES Reports
Jan 28, 2008; ... More minorities are enrolling in college and sticking with it towards a degree, although their numbers still lag behind Whites, according to recent reports from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of ...
Not Everything Is Black & White in Higher Education
Jan 28, 2008; ... I probably sound like a broken record. And some of you may say, "Here she goes again." But the situation is dire, so I have to keep talking. It's about the public schools in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. I have to keep bringing this up because we are dealing with a long-troubled school ...
Trends in College Pricing
Jan 28, 2008; ... Students and parents must weigh many factors when choosing a college: location, majors offered, tuition and more. One factor that might be overlooked is a student's day-to-day living expenses, once enrolled. For the affluent student, living expenses rarely get a second thought. But for those ...
IHEP Studies the College Dreams of Middle School Parents
Jan 28, 2008; ... The institute of Higher Education Policy (IHEP) recently conducted the IHEP Survey of Middle School Parents, a study that explored parents' levels of aspiration and preparedness for their children's college education. IHEP is a nonprofit organization whose focus, around me world, is "access and ...
Congress Seeks Accountability and Transparency in College Costs
Jan 28, 2008; ... Over the past few years, the focus of congressional committee hearings on higher education has been on helping America's college students pay for college. It is called "access." This year, Congress passed a bill, which President Bush signed into law, granting larger loans at lower rates of ...
Scholars' Corner
Jan 28, 2008; ... After graduating from my undergraduate institution and working in corporate marketing for two years, I made a conscious decision to leave California to pursue a master's degree in student affairs administration at Michigan State University. Leaving my community and famliy was difficult, as it ...
Balancing Budgets through Differential Tuition and Higher Fees
Jan 28, 2008; ... Tuition is no longer a one-sizefits-all proposition. Differential tuition - the idea of charging more for certain majors has caught on, especiaUy at big pubUc universities. Paying by degree has become a strategy for underwriting the high cost of star professors in majors, such as ...
MIT'S XO Laptop & the Online Classroom
Jan 28, 2008; ... Its seems education increasingly is becoming an online activity. Everyone is getting wired and connected, from preschool and primary schoolchildren to busy graduate students who attend seminars and submit aU their work online. Now, in addition, onhne learning has become a heartthrobbing quest in ...
Berea: A Radical Vision in Appalachia
Jan 28, 2008; ... Located in Kentucky's southern Appalachia, Berea College has consistently been ahead of its times. This small liberai arts college was founded in 1855 as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South. Equally unique, it provides all students with four years of free ...
Experts Weigh in on Hispanics' College Readiness
Jan 28, 2008; ... "The ACT reports, like all the reports, shows that Hispanic students don't do as well as other students." So says Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr., Ph.D., research professor at the Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University. De los Santos is talking about recent reports of shifts in ...
Closing the Minority Achievement Gap
Jan 28, 2008; ... First came the report on the minority achievement gap, then came the conference. The Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to improving liberal arts education in college, sponsored a November 2006 report on Eliminating Racial and Ethnie Disparities in College Completion and Achievement: Current ...
Architects of Our Destiny
Jan 28, 2008; ... "Tu eres el arquitecto de tu propio destino." Yes, it is true, as the quote above states, "We arc the architects of our own destiny." Many students of Hispanic heritage know that a good education can lead to a better life, one that maybe their parents were not able to attain. Many of ...
Manhattanville College Poll Sheds Light on Race-Relation Trends in Suburbia
Jan 28, 2008; ... A Manhattanville College poll conducted early in November 2007 has shed light on the state of race relations in a northeastern suburb that might reflect trends elsewhere. The survey reveals critical differences in the way Blacks, Hispanics and Whites feel they are treated by the criminal justice ...
MLA Survey Shows Significant Increases in Foreign-Language Study
Jan 28, 2008; ... NEW YORK, N.Y. Interest in language study at American colleges and universities has increased broadly and significantly since 2002, according to a comprehensive survey, Enrollments in Languages Other than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2006, released by ...
Campus Compact: Research Universities Deepen Commitment to Civic and Community Engagement
Jan 28, 2008; ... PROVIDENCE, R.I. A growing network of leading research universities is working to advance campusbased civic and community engagement among a group of institutions that are often thought of as defining the "ivory tower." The network, which has doubled in size in the past year, has ...
Pew Reports on Latino Immigrants' Attachment to Their Native Country
Jan 28, 2008; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. According to a recent Pew Research Center report, most Latino immigrants maintain connection to their native country by sending remittances, traveling back or telephoning relatives, but the extent of their attachment varies considerably. Only one in 10 does all three of ...
USA Funds Awards $400,000 to National Scholarship Groups
Jan 28, 2008; ... INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. USA Funds, a national education-loan guarantor, has announced the award of $400,000 in contributions to five national scholarship organizations that promote access to higher education for minority students. For the sixth consecutive year, USA Funds has given funds to ...
PEOPLE, PLACES, PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Jan 28, 2008; ... People & Places Nova Southeastern Awarded $2.8 Million to Help Hispanic Students Nova Southeastern University (Fla.) was awarded a $2.8 million Title V Developing Hispanic Serving Institution grant from the U.S. Department of Education for its Fischler School of Education and ...
AMENDMENT
Jan 28, 2008; ... CUNY Law School wants readers to know that data in our Dec. 3 issue on its first year ...
Mama Fela's Girls: A Novel
Jan 28, 2008; ... Mama Fela's Girls: A Novel, by Ana Baca. 328 pages. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. ISBN 9780-8263-4023-8. $24.95 cloth. Ana Baca's debut novel about a Mexican-American family in a small northeastern New Mexico town has the elements one would expect - the warmth, ...
THE ENLACE MOVEMENT IN FLORIDA
Jan 28, 2008; ... Latinas/os are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in Florida. Florida's Hispanic population is projected to increase from 2.6 million in 2000 to 6.3 million in 2030, when Latina/os will account for 25 percent of the state's population. Miami-Dade County already has a majority ...