The Kennedy School at Harvard University announced a new fellowship for students, specifically student leaders who are “committed to the Latino community” to honor a deceased chief diversity officer.
Topic: Latinos
Princeton University Held Hispanics-Only Graduation Ceremony
Princeton held a Hispanics-only graduation for graduates of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.
Anti-Latino Graffiti was… a Hoax
From The College Fix: “Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista” the whiteboard message read, and as you’d expect it led to immediate fierce denunciations from staff and students alike upon its discovery on Thursday. Professor…
We Want a Bigger Safe Space, Demands Latino Student Group at North Carolina
A specific meeting place for Latino students is the main demand of a Latino student group at the University of North Carolina: “Latinx” students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) demonstrated…
George Washington University Student Group Boots Latino for Pointing Out Hypocrisy
Calling out inconsistencies means that you’ll be booted from a student group: This month, incoming George Washington University freshman Diego Rebollar was kicked out of an online “students of color” GroupMe created to offer support…
MLA Stylebook: Capitalism Punishes the Disabled Poor
Capitalism discriminates against the poor and disabled, one professor said during a panel entitled, “Disability and the Global South” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. This year, it was held in Austin, Texas, hardly…
Federal Reserve Study: College Degrees for Minorities No Guarantee of Raising Income
Campus Reform with more on the study: The report released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis poses the question, “Why didn’t higher education protect Hispanic and black wealth?” in response to…
More Latinos in Community Colleges than Others, Report finds
Other findings were that 18% of Latino students were learning English as a second language and made strides in earning an associate’s degree via community colleges.
Upside Down Academics
The divide between academics’view of the world and actual events on planet earth is a wide one. “The United States is beset by acute foreign policy crises, from the Middle East to Russia to its…