The University at Albany is partnering with
Excelencia in Education for the release of its new report on “25 Years of Hispanic Serving Institutions.” The analysis, which was briefed at UAlbany Thursday, aims to inform lawmakers and school administrators how best to serve Latino/Latina students in higher education. UAlbany President Havidán Rodríguez spoke with WAMC’s Jesse King about the report.
For those who don t know, what is a Hispanic Serving Institution?
A Hispanic Serving Institution is a federally designated institution which has an enrollment of about 25 percent or more of Latino/Latina/Hispanic students. Roughly speaking, today about 15 percent of our students are classified as Latino or Latina, about 17.6 percent of our undergraduate students fall in that classification, and about 8.4 percent of our graduate students fall under the classification of Latino/Latina/Hispanic. And so we are considered an
CSU System economic study shows impact on talent retention, jobs, revenue 09 Feb, 2021
The three Colorado State University System campuses – and the out-of-state students they attract – fuel nearly 23,000 Colorado jobs and more than $237.74 million in state income and sales tax revenue annually.
In its first-ever Systemwide economic impact study, a team of economists quantified the CSU System’s unique contributions to the Colorado economy in terms of jobs, research, and the contributions of the System’s more than 112,250 living alumni who are currently working in Colorado. Highlights and a full report are available online at: https://csusystem.edu/economic-impact/.
Among the report’s key findings: the CSU System is an important factor in Colorado’s workforce talent retention. About 50% of the students who moved to Colorado to attend a CSU campus since 2005 have stayed here after graduating. And 86% of Colorado residents who attended CSU institutions are still
When it comes to leadership and giving back to her community, there is not much that Teresa Martinez has not done.
Arriving in Polk County in the early 1970s as an exile from the oppressive communist regime in Cuba, Martinez has made her mark on our county in numerous ways. After 12 years as a language teacher with the public school system, she founded the Institute of Spanish Communication Inc. in 1989. ISC is the publisher of the ¡Viva Polk! Magazine, the only print Spanish media published and distributed throughout the county.
She is the author of “Success in Exile – Five Decades of Cuban Stories, a bilingual short story book about the lives of 25 Cuban families and their struggles to flee the island. Martinez is the producer and host of “Hablemos” (Let’s Talk) on WQXM RITMO 99.9 FM and 1460 AM. She is one of the founders and directors of the Lakeland Institute for Learning, a school dedicated to special-needs students that opened its doors in July 2015.
Contexts by Rebecca A. London | January 26, 2021
Photo by Caniceus (Source: Pixabay).
As the world moved to remote teaching and learning this past spring, I taught a designed-for-the-moment undergraduate course in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) called
Coronavirus and Community. My goal was to create an opportunity for undergraduates, many of whom had moved back in with their parents, to go deep into an issue they cared about and how the pandemic has affected it. As I was designing the course,
Contexts serendipitously issued its March 15, 2020 call for papers on the global impacts of coronavirus. I used that call as a jumping off point and designed a research project based course so that students could see what “real” sociologists do and participate in the knowledge production process during this unprecedented and deeply distressing time. In this piece, I describe