The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education back issues from February 2009:
Esquina Editorial
Feb 09, 2009; ... "Tax Cuts for Teachers." That's the title of Thomas Friedman's Jan. 10 column in TheNew York Times. Friedman writes that even before the current fiscal breakdown, the U.S. was in a "deep competitive hole" brought on by years of folks "making money from money ... flipping houses or flipping ...
In Illinois, It's Tainted if It Ain't Mine
Feb 09, 2009; ... Abe Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, was called "Honest Abe" because he was known to be as honest as the day is long. He was the personification of virtue and beneficence. Stories about these attributes were legion, even after he went into politics - in the state of Illinois, no ...
Obama Pledges Schools Upgrade in Stimulus Plan
Feb 09, 2009; ... WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Barack Obama probably cannot fix every leaky roof and busted boiler in the nation's schools. But educators say his sweeping school modernization program - if he spends enough - could jumpstart student achievement. More kids than ever are crammed into aging, ...
SHPE Conference Inspires and Rewards Hispanic Engineers
Feb 09, 2009; ... More than 6,000 college and K- 12 students, teachers and professionals attended the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Annual Conference held Nov. 12-16 in Phoenix, Ariz. The annual conference - the largest technical conference for Hispanics - is an opportunity for participants to ...
Class of 2010 Panel Study Aims to Help Students Transition
Feb 09, 2009; ... The New England Consortium on Assessment and Student learning (NFCASl.) is in ils third year of an importan! stuck involving students at seven northeastern colleges Wellesley, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury, Smith and Trinity. Lee Cuba, sociology professor at Wellesley College ...
Two Presidents Talk about Leadership
Feb 09, 2009; ... I first met Dr. Elsa Nuñez and Dr. Dario Cortés in late summer of 1985. We were staying in a resort in the middle of nowhere in Florida, participating in the first seminar of the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows program, class of 1985. Although there were other minorities, we ...
Delay of Gratification
Feb 09, 2009; ... "If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. " -Jesse Jackson Who said Latinos can't or don't practice delay of gratification and therefore can't advance academically? Have you ever met a Hispanic youngster who waited a long time for a coveted bike or gadget? Or ...
Virginia Gears Up to Support Hispanics in Higher Education
Feb 09, 2009; ... Representatives from Virginia's higher education community, public schools, state agencies, and nonprofit groups have joined together to support the Virginia Latino Higher Education Network (VALHEN). VALHEN is creating an infrastructure to enhance recruitment and retention of Latino students, ...
Ushering in a New Era, with Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education
Feb 09, 2009; ... While the nation's attention was riveted on Illinois, where an impeachment process was being launched against that state's governor, then-President-Elect Barack Obama took the opportunity to propose Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, as the next U.S. secretary of education. Like ...
MIAMI'S CHANGING ETHNIC AND POLITICAL CHARACTER
Feb 09, 2009; ... Metropolitan Miami is well known for its beautiful beaches, economic prosperity, high-profile residents and tourists, and of course, for its strong Latin connections. The story of how Miami was transformed in four decades from a predominantly Anglo city to a largely Hispanic one is a story of ...
The CIC/CLA Consortium Moves Ahead with Accountability
Feb 09, 2009; ... Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), and Stephen Pelletier, in their 2008 paper Assessing Student Learning - A Work in Progress, wrote about using the CLA, Collegiate Learning Assessment, to measure "how the college experience helps students develop such ...
UNCENSORED
Feb 09, 2009; ... KENNEDY'S PRIORITIES - The 111th Congress is in its first 100 days, and the world is watching to see what big changes the now dominant Democratic legislature and administration will achieve. A key to their success is Sen. Edward Kennedy. He will be a strong historic presence in the 111th for ...
Bridging the Gap for At-Risk and High-Risk Students
Feb 09, 2009; ... An innovative approach to keeping at risk and high-risk students in school, the Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, Calif., benefits not only its own students but has expanded beyond the borders of the campus to help other students as well. Conceived, researched ...
Thomas Edison State College and FEA Partner to Boost Ranks of Trained School Leaders
Feb 09, 2009; ... Anew partnership between Thomas Edison State CoUege and the nonprofit Foundation for Educational Administration (FEA) wiU address the critical lack of trained school leaders across the state of New Jersey with a graduate onhne program that wiU expand opportunities for them. Districts across the ...
Experts Report on the ELLs Achievement Gap
Feb 09, 2009; ... ETS, along with its co-sponsor, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group in America, held its eighth Achievement Gap Symposium in January 2008 and published ETS Policy Notes last summer - Addressing Achievement Gaps: The Language ...
More Hispanics Take ACT, Scores Hold Steady, Gaps Remain
Feb 09, 2009; ... If the most recent ACT scores revealed anything in 2008, it was that more Hispanics than ever before are taking the ACT test and increasingly setting their eyes on higher education. "First and foremost, we have seen a large jump in Hispanic students taking the ACT compared to the last ...
Seton Hall Law School Raises More than $18.5 Million in First Year of the "Seton Hall Law Rising" Campaign
Feb 09, 2009; ... NEWARK, N.J. (PRNewswire) - Seton Hall University School of Law has raised $18.5 million, reaching 74 percent of its $25 million goal, in the first year of its Seton Hall Law Rising fundraising campaign. Of that amount, $2 million has been pledged to create more than 20 new scholarships; and ...
Study Finds Link with Grades, Bad Health Habits
Feb 09, 2009; ... MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) - New research from the University of Minnesota's Boynton Health Service finds that students with bad health habits tend to earn lower grades. Researchers surveyed more than 9,000 students and found that low grades were more common among undergraduates who didn't ...
Educators at Ed Trust Convention Pledge to Close Achievement Gap
Feb 09, 2009; ... Talk about taking responsibility! "It's Up to Us to Go the Distance to Close Gaps and Raise Achievement for All," agreed hundreds of teachers and school administrators from throughout the nation during a workshoppacked three-day national conference of the Education Trust in Arlington, Va., in ...
Scholars' Corner
Feb 09, 2009; ... As a Chicana born and raised in South Texas, my early schooling experiences were at times isolating and discouraging. The everyday discriminations that I faced did help me develop a resilience and self-determination that allowed me to be the first in my family to go to college. Since my father ...
Gates Foundation Initiative Aims to Help Low-Income Students Earn Postsecondary Degrees
Feb 09, 2009; ... SEATTLE. Wash. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced grants totaling $698 million to organizations working to improve college enrollment and completion rates in the U.S., including grants to organizations in New York City, New Mexico and California that primarily ...
Preparation by Eighth Grade Critical to College/Career Readiness: ACT
Feb 09, 2009; ... IOWA CITY. Iowa Students who aren't on track for college and career readiness by eighth grade are unlikely to attain that level of readiness by high school graduation, according to The Forgotten Middle, a new research report by ACT Inc. The findings suggest the level of academic ...
Where Hispanics Live in U.S. May Change over Time, Finds Study on Residential Patterns
Feb 09, 2009; ... UNIVERSITY PARK. Pa. A study of residential patterns in America suggests that White and Black Hispanics born in the U.S. are more likely to share neighborhoods with native non-Hispanic Whites and African-Americans, compared to foreignborn Hispanics - a pattern consistent with immigrant ...
COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY: THE GREATEST BARRIER TO ACCESS
Feb 09, 2009; ... iPUNTO FINAL! In the Measuring Up 2008 report, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education gave 49 of 50 states a grade of F in the category of college affordability California, which allocates financial aid solely on the basis of need, received the highest mark for ...
Colleges and Universities Increasingly Rely on Underpaid Contingent Faculty, Says AFT
Feb 09, 2009; ... WASHINGTON. D.C. More than half of the undergraduate courses at U.S. public colleges and universities are taught by "contingent" faculty and graduate instructors rather than full-time tenured faculty, resulting in an unstable and financially exploited work force, according to a report ...
PEOPLE, PLACES, PUBLICATIONS
Feb 09, 2009; ... People & Places Hispanics on the Move HACU Lauds Appointment of Garcia to Obama Transition Team Dr. Antonio Flores, president and CEO, Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities, lauded the appointment of Dr. Juliet V. Garcia (pictured), president, the ...
Pancho Villa and Black Jack Pershing: The Punitive Expedition in México
Feb 09, 2009; ... Pancho Villa and Black Jack Pershing: The Punitive Expedition in México, by James W. Hurst. 219 pages. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. ISBN 9780-313-35004-7. $39-95 cloth. History, it has been said, "should not be written during its present timeframe." Time has to pass ...
Esquina Editorial
Feb 23, 2009; ... Welcome to our annual Women's Issue, celebrating accomplished Latinas in and of academia. Things seem to be looking up for American women of all hues. For instance, both the Senate and House recently passed the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act. Lilly's the woman who filed an EEOC claim against her ...
"Walk the Line"
Feb 23, 2009; ... By Carlos Miller, Barry Magazine, Fall 2008 Dr. Charles Southerland is the founder of Barry University's Yucatán Crippled Children's Project, which treats children with foot and leg deformities in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. Southerland, a professor of podiatric ...
In Obama We Trust
Feb 23, 2009; ... The inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th president must have been a bittersweet occasion for some of this country's Latino community. Joyous and buoyant, supposedly, since Latinos overwhelmingly voted for Obama and expectations are high after their unrequited flirtations with ...
Latinas Overcome Cultural and Economic Barriers to Grow their Higher Education Numbers
Feb 23, 2009; ... Today's Hispanic women in higher education and in the workplace have a similar set of challenges as they strive to overcome economic and social barriers to get an education and excel in the professional work force. But the baby boomer generation could be what boosts Latinas into management and ...
Dr. Inés Cifuentes: Not Your Ordinary Scientist
Feb 23, 2009; ... Dr. Inés Cifuentes had a childhood far from the ordinary. By the time she was 12, she had lived in London, Ecuador, Paraguay, Chile, Guatemala and the U.S. Born to an Ecuadorian father and Jewish-American mother who worked as economists for the United Nations, she and her brother learned ...
Dr. Laura Rendón: Helping Campuses Increase Latina Success
Feb 23, 2009; ... Dr. Laura Rendón is on a mission. Her goal is to transform college campuses into a setting for Latino success and the success of all students. Rendón, who is professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University's College of Human Sciences, ...
The Status of Latinas at the Five Sisters
Feb 23, 2009; ... Once upon a time there were seven sisters, private women's colleges. Then Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which refused to merge with Yale University, went co-ed in 1969, and Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass., merged with Harvard University. The five remaining sisters, all in the ...
The Creative Careers of Deborah Franco
Feb 23, 2009; ... Even in 2009, you could be forgiven for assuming a man directed the ads for the United States Naval Academy's new "Fulfill Your Destiny" campaign. The spots burst with macho images of zooming planes, sweaty football players and hulking submarines, all glorifying life in the service, and that's ...
Why Comprehensive Immigration Reform Won't Happen until After 2010
Feb 23, 2009; ... The 11th Congress is now some four weeks into its first 100 legislative days. The expectations for it to pass key legislation have been building for months. Since the November elections, Latino activists have been asking themselves one question: will comprehensive immigration reform now be ...
AAUW Research Shows Income Trumps Gender as Factor in Testing
Feb 23, 2009; ... A recent report by the American Association of University Women investigating the status of girls in education reveals that the true issue is no longer related to gender but to income level and race. Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Education, published in May 2008, ...
The Many Lives of Mirta Ojito
Feb 23, 2009; ... We are often challenged to see the complexities of a life behind a façade. All too often, we see what we wish to see and avoid seeing what we don't want to experience. By her own account, journalist Mirta Ojito has always been curious, always wanted to probe behind the obvious and the ...
Saint Mary's College Offers Quality College Education Worth the Sacrifice, Even in Tough Economy
Feb 23, 2009; ... News reports are filled with stories about the economy. It is the main topic of conversation at every sort of meeting and gathering. Many of these reports and articles address higher education and its response to the current state of affairs. Will families be able to afford to send their ...
Latinas and the 2008 Presidential Election
Feb 23, 2009; ... In this most recent presidential election, perhaps the most historicallly significant ever, Latinas had the option of voting for women candidates on both sides of the aisle. On Feb. 5, "Super Tuesday," when 24 states held their major party primaries, Latinas made up 56 percent, more than half of ...
Latino Leaders Celebrate Inauguration, Power of Vote
Feb 23, 2009; ... Celebrating 'the power of the Latino vote' a day before the inauguration of President Barack Obama, three of the largest Latino advocacy organizations in the country hosted a half-day conference on legislative priorities, as well as a star-studded Inaugural Gala just steps from the U.S ....
U.S. in Danger of Risking World Standing: College Board Report
Feb 23, 2009; ... NEW YORK. N.Y. The United States must take immediate action to reverse its fall from the top ranks of countries with a college-educated work force. If postsecondary success is not made a national priority, our country's economic and social health will continue to weaken. This is the ...
Lumina Foundation Awards Grants to 11 States
Feb 23, 2009; ... INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. At a time when state economies are reeling and educators and policymakers are anticipating significant cuts to public higher education, Lumina Foundation for Education has announced grants to 1 1 states to help develop and implement policy changes that promote ...
NAICU Survey Examines Economic Concerns of Private College and University Leaders
Feb 23, 2009; ... WASHINGTON. IM . A new survey of private college and university presidents finds that fundraising, endowments, the availability of student aid, institutional debt and student enrollment led the list of campus economic concerns as the fall 2008 semester ended. The survey was conducted ...
Higher Ed Plan Calls for Additional Student Aid, Investment in University Infrastructure
Feb 23, 2009; ... WASHINGTON. D.C. A coalition of 30 higher education associations has been calling on Congress to make higher education a critical part of an economic stimulus package. The group has proposed a series of federal investments in student aid and campus infrastructure that will not only ...
PEOPLE, PLACES, PUBLICATIONS
Feb 23, 2009; ... People & Places Hispanics on the Move Torres Named Director of Gastón Institute Dr. María Idalí Torres, medical anthropologist and associate professor of public health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massa- chusetts-Amherst, has been named ...
Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Feb 23, 2009; ... Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, by Jorge G. Castañeda. 240 pgs. New York, N.Y.: The New Press, 2007. ISBN 978-59558-163-1, $24.95. Jorge Castañeda has written a first-rate treatise on the sweeping issues of immigration, for laymen and a U.S. audience. Ex-Mex offers a sound and ...
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF "CONTROLLING IMAGES," POWER AND INEQUALITY
Feb 23, 2009; ... "Why don't you make your father happy; get married and have a baby," a Latino college professor suggested 20 years ago when I told him that my father was awaiting a heart transplant. His words stung. I hear similar stories from today's students and am reminded that negative perceptions ...