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SoCal students launch hunger strike to back immigrant citizenship

GARDEN GROVE Calif. Three dozen Southern California high school and college students launched a hunger strike to advocate a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant students.

July 2, 2007

Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Supported by Almost Half of Southern California Residents, According to UCLA Survey

Nearly half of Southern California residents support providing illegal immigrants with a path to citizenship, according to a new UCLA survey.

July 2, 2007

Attorney: LSU has paid settlement money

BATON ROUGE La. LSU has paid former women’s basketball coach Pokey Chatman the $160,000 owed her as a result of a recent contract settlement following her resignation.

June 26, 2007

Rell vetoes in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant kids

HARTFORD Conn. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have extended favorable in-state tuition rates at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities to children of illegal immigrants.

June 26, 2007

Students play a major role at historic Latino march on Washington

College and university students were a major force at the first-ever national civil and human rights rally to concentrate on Latino issues. The two-day event, which included a march and a student conference, was held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Leticia Villareal, a student at Vassar and the administrative chair of East Coast […]

June 23, 2007

Community Colleges

The journey towards a better life requires an educational passport

A few weeks ago, more than 800 new Americans took their oath of citizenship on the campus of North Harris College in l this stirring ceremony has been reenacted here some 15 times in the past three years swearing in 13,000 new citizens.

June 22, 2007

Blacks graduating from high school at same rate as whites – but Hispanics still lag behind

WASHINGTON The high school completion rate for Blacks between the ages of 25 and 29 rose to nearly 87 percent last year, reaching about the same level as whites for the first time.

June 22, 2007

… 3,000 and counting – educational aid to underrepresented students

Several years ago, a number of educators, after deciding there were not enough Latinos enrolled in graduate schools around the country, created a program called “Helping 500 U.S. Hispanic Students into Graduate Schools.”

June 19, 2007

Beyond brutality – scholars say repeated beatings born in hate and police culture

After an 80-mile chase, the blows to the body began almost immediately. The Riverside, CA, sheriffs repeatedly beat a defenseless Mexican citizen on the side of a freeway in Los Angeles County. The blows continued even after the man was down. Then, the same officer turned his riot stick on a woman passenger. She was dragged from the truck.

June 17, 2007

Community Colleges

Education, history and the State of the Union

Here we go again. George Bush described himself as the “education president” a few years back, and now President Bill Clinton seeks to top him at his game. During the 1997 State of the Union address, Clinton forwarded a number of education proposals, all which have special implications for those who could be described as “educationally disadvantaged.” At the same time, the light-touch federal approach that Mr. Clinton has suggested may mean that some states will embrace his educational reforms with more fervor than others.

June 16, 2007

Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus

Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”

June 16, 2007

The early years – the portrayal of minorities in Hollywood film industry

Even now Hollywood continues to weigh in with racial stereotypes on the silver screen that leave sensitive patrons breathless with fury. But in 1926, Ramon Novarro stood tall in the chariot in the title role in MGM’s silent epic, “Ben Hur.”

June 15, 2007

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