Latin@ high school students are rising to protest hateful SB 4 law in Texas.
Texas High Schoolers Rise Against Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Law
By Viri Sanchez and Karla Quinones (2.5 minute read) Four months ago, on February 16, thousands of high school students across Texas joined in a collective effort to stand up […]
Top 100 colleges and Universities for Latinos
*Check it out. My alma mater ranked 8th in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinos. Where does yours rank? VL By Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Each year […]
Closed Doors: Black and Latino Students Are Excluded from Top Public Universities
By Elizabeth Baylor, Center for American Progress (12.5 minute read) In the fall of 2014, 297,000 African American and Latino students enrolled in America’s top public research universities. While access […]
Why Colleges in Appalachia Are Recruiting Latinos
*An interesting statistic in this piece, kinda geeky. But, six of the 10 states with the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the country are in the Appalachian South. We’re everywhere. VL […]
Barefoot Triqui Indian Basketball Players Tour Los Angeles
By Sam Quiñones, A reporter’s Blog The barefoot Triqui Indian basketball team, from the mountains of Oaxaca, is in Los Angeles for a couple weeks. The team of 10 and […]
Insider’s Guide for Incoming Latino College Students
By Christine Killion and Samantha Madera, Al Día News You made it. You’ve struggled through twelve or more years of furious concentrating, reading until your eyes were sore, and scribbling until […]
Why STEM Education & Minority Achievement are Interlinked
By Hope Gillette, Voxxi Economists agree – science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is critical to the future success of the United States. Yet even at the K-12 level, […]
Focus Needed on Increasing Latinos in Higher Ed
By Latinovations Deborah Santiago, Co-Founder and Vice President for Policy Research at Excelencia in Education, is saying that there needs to be a greater focus to get more Latinos involved with […]
Latinos With College Degrees Rises By 80 Percent
3.8 million Latinos in the U.S. now have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to the Census Bureau, showing an 80% increase between 2001 and 2011. “This is an important […]
Undocumented Student Ran For Texas A&M Student Body President
Jose Luis Zelaya, 24, is a Honduran immigrant, graduate student in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, expert crocheter, and aspiring teacher, who ran for student […]
