Diverse StaffStudentsMazda Foundation Backs Scholarships at UNCPThe Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc., has renewed two four-year scholarships for American Indian students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), the university announced.September 9, 2008StudentsStudents Earn Scholarships Honoring Pioneering WomanEight Minnesota students recently received the American Indian Ethel Curry Scholarship for academic excellence, awarded by the Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation (MAEF) in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education, the department announced.September 9, 2008LatinxUA Interpreter-Training Center Earns Grant to Grow ProgramAn interpreter-training program at the University of Arizona center has won a highly selective U.S. Department of Education grant that will allow it to develop an online curriculum for schools around the nation.September 9, 2008LatinxUC Santa Barbara to Honor Poet and Children’s AdvocateThe University of California at Santa Barbara has announced that Pat Mora, a poet and author, will receive the 2008 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival on Saturday, September 27.September 9, 2008LatinxCastro’s Daughter to Speak at SIU-CarbondaleAlina Fernandez, daughter of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, is scheduled to speak Sept. 29 at Southern Illinois University’s student center as part of Latino Heritage Month. (National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 – Oct. 15.)September 9, 2008LatinxNebraska Calls Summit on Latino EducationThe Nebraska Department of Education and the state Mexican-American Commission have announced the fifth annual Hispanic/Latino Education Summit to be held Oct 6.September 9, 2008LatinxStudy: Ph.D. Completion Rates Vary By Gender, RaceInternational students, men and Whites complete their Ph.D. requirements faster than domestic, women and minority students, according to a Council of Graduate Schools study being released today.September 8, 2008Native AmericansElders Work to Save Kenai’s First LanguageElders of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe have been teaching students from around the state their language as a way of preserving it.September 7, 2008Native AmericansFamed Artist Teaches Shell Carving at MuscogeeDan Townsend, an internationally known Native American artist, recently spent a month at the College of the Muscogee Nation on Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology’s campus sharing the art of shell carving, the OSU-Okmulgee announced.September 7, 2008DisabiltiesProtecting Voters’ RightsThe NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund unveiled a new nonpartisan voter awareness program, Prepared to Vote, to help reveal and address voting barriers in the upcoming November elections such as: voter ID requirements, voter purges, faulty voter rolls, poorly trained election officials and felon disenfranchisement statutes.September 3, 2008Previous PagePage 75 of 115Next Page
