The American Council of Learned Societies Awards 14 Project Development Grants
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Program Provides Vital Support to Faculty at Teaching-Intensive Schools Enabling Them To Advance Promising Research In the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
ACLS is proud to support faculty at these schools who remain committed to work in their classrooms, as well as contributing scholarly excellence to the academy. NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 24, 2021 The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce 14 new awardees for its Project Development Grants program.
Now in its fourth year, this ACLS program offers flexible support to faculty at teaching-intensive colleges and universities whose research projects will significantly advance humanistic studies and interpretive social sciences. The program targets faculty teaching a greater number of courses per year than their colleagues at more research
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The only times that I an American of Mexican descent remember learning about Mexican history in school are during discussions of ancient civilizations and science (the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula). I don’t know if things have changed since then. However, given that Mexico is one of our two closest neighbors, that Mexican Americans are by far the largest group of Latinx people living in the U.S. (nearly 37 million as of 2018),
and that 2021 marks 200 years since the end of the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821), it never hurts to learn a little more with Mexican history books!
that you re supposed to have later on. i m doing this because i want to world and this country to be a better place for them and for other children like them and their children. also i get back to san antonio. i m trying to get disciplined to make sure i spend time at home. it s one thing to go out and campaign but you can t forget your priorities. you have such good training to be active because of your mom. that s true. your mom is a legend in your hometown. talk to us about that. i grew up with my grandmother who had come over from mexico and my mother. my mother had been a hell raiser when she was young. she was involved in mexican-american civil rights movement. when we growing up, she would drag us to rallies and speeches and marches. mostly what i took from that is there was a value in
mexican/american civil rights movement. my brother and i went into public service so that we could help make opportunity more possible for folks coming behind us. and i hope for young people, for this generation, that they will continue the kind of activism that we ve seen with these march for our lives activists and others to try and keep pushing back against leadership, especially in the white house, that is absolutely determined to take us back ward. you said that you re likely to run. are you going to run? i m going to make a decision after november. there are two things that i still need to do. one of them is personal. of course my family and i have talked about the idea of me running. but my wife, erica and i, have not had the long, drawn out, everything on the table conversation that we need to have as a family. secondly, i m spending the time between now and november campaigning for folks who are actually on the ballot on november 6th because that s the
that isn t just the few months before an election. but constant to register and turn them out. it has to be frustrating. one is the 23rd. it touches part of san antonio. let s talk about the new book coming out. unlikely jour nee. waking up from my american dream. does it mean something different than it has to previous generations? each generation defines it in its own way. why d you say waking up from? the book tells a story of my family starting with my grandmother from mexico. when she was 7 years old with her younger sister. her parents died. each generation of my family found out it wasn t enough to work hard. you needed to press the country the society to get better. my mother was a active in the mexican american civil rights