RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated PressStudentsUniversity of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student ProtectionsALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]November 20, 2016LatinxUniversity of New Mexico Starts Chicano Studies Online PlanALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ― Facing a growing Latino student population and pressure to increase its graduation rates, the University of New Mexico is launching an online degree program in Chicana and Chicano Studies beginning this fall just as ethnic studies programs are facing challenges in neighboring Arizona. Officials say the online classes will allow nontraditional students […]June 29, 2016Campus ClimateUniversity of Kansas, Student Newspaper Resolve LawsuitLAWRENCE, Kan. ― A lawsuit alleging that administrators at the University of Kansas allowed the Student Senate to illegally slash the student newspaper’s funding has been dismissed after the reductions were reversed. Both parties stated that the case had been resolved to “their satisfaction” in a document filed Monday in federal court, the Lawrence Journal-World […]June 29, 2016Leadership & Policy‘Forgotten’ Latino Scholar Finally Gets Hometown RecognitionYears after leaving New Mexico in disgrace, a noted Mexican American scholar and civil rights advocate whose name graces educational institutions in Texas and California but until recently was virtually unknown in his hometown of Albuquerque finally will be honored in his birth city.February 19, 2015African-American1963 March on Washington Inspired Latinos in Civil Rights FightAfter seeing the heavily Black throngs gathered around the Lincoln Memorial, Latinos learned some lessons from that show of political force, historians say.August 27, 2013LatinxImmigrant Students Give Blood To Show CitizenshipAs Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.December 5, 2010LatinxLone Latina Senator in Mass. Defends Tuition PlanMassachusetts’ only Latina state senator defended a state proposal last week to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and accused critics of the plan of spreading “fiction.”November 21, 2010Faculty & StaffMass. Minority Professor Program Marks 20th YearThe Phillips Academy Institute for Recruitment of Teachers in Andover, Mass., is celebrating its 20th year, this month.July 18, 2010StudentsUndocumented Students Hold D.C. ‘Teach-In’ to Push DREAM ActA coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California on Wednesday launched a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the “teach-ins” of the 1960s, to encourage a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants through college enrollment.July 15, 2010LatinxOfficials: Harvard Student Will Not Be DeportedAn undocumented Harvard University student is no longer facing deportation to Mexico after being detained nearly two weeks ago by immigration authorities at a Texas airport.June 20, 2010Page 1 of 2Next Page
