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Santiago Targets Achievement Gap as CEO of Hispanic College Fund Jamaal abdul-alimn

As an accomplished university leader who helped boost revenue and enrollment at one of the largest universities in the Midwest, Dr. Carlos Santiago anticipated there would be questions about his recent decision to leave the world of academia.

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Jamaal Abdul-Alimn

Arts and Media April 2011 Premium

ASU Professor a Prizewinning Documentarian of Chicano History

Paul Espinosa grew up in America among a wealth of family members whose ancestors settled in the western region of the United States centuries ago. From family members, he gained inspiration and a drive to pursue whatever career he chose. For six years, he’s been a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Transborder Studies.

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Diana Saenger

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U. of California-Riverside Devises a Successful Latino Graduation Strategy by Gary M. Stern

The University of California (UC)-Riverside, a large institution with 20,746 undergraduates that is 35 percent Latino, takes graduating Hispanics very seriously. It relies on several success strategies, including first-year learning communities, creating Hispanic academic programs, developing an early-warning academic alert, and using data to retain and graduate larger number of Latino students than the norm.

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Gary M. Stern

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

Anthropologist Michael Vásquez - Digging into the Future Clay Latimer

When Michael Vásquez began visiting the Hopi Indians 20 years ago, the Northern Arizona University (NAU) anthropology professor ran into a serious obstacle: generations of anthropologists before him had thoroughly alienated the tribe. “Anthropologists published books, got tenure, while native communities haven’t gotten anything,” he says.

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Clay Latimer

Technology April 2011 Premium

A New Textbook Publishing Model for the Internet Age by Frank DiMaria

“The biggest barrier to learning on scale is access to information. If we don’t solve that problem, then on scale we are never going to educate the number of people who want to be educated and who are not only capable of excelling but in many ways need that education to improve their quality of life.” --Eric Frank, Co-Founder, Flat World Knowledge

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Frank DiMaria

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

The Peace Corps: Making Love, Not War by Carlos D. Conde

The United States has always been about liberty and justice for all. So says our Pledge of Allegiance. But it occurs to me that we Americans have taken this pledge beyond our borders in a pugilistic manner, with the U.S. perennially engaged in war and conflicts all over the world in pursuit of these ideals.

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Carlos D. Conde

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

New Report Confirms that Higher Education Benefits Students and Society

Sandra Baum, Jennifer Ma and Kathleen Payea of the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center released a document in September titled Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society as part of the center’s Trends in Higher Education Series.

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Angela Provitera McGlynn

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