Hispanic Community July 2018

WPUNJ And Radio Station In Puerto Rico Form Partnership Following University’s Humanitarian Outreach [On A Positive Note In Education]

William Paterson University of New Jersey’s radio station, 88.7 WPSC-FM Brave New Radio, recently established a sister-station relationship with WVQR 90.1 FM Radio Vieques in Puerto Rico. The university’s radio station will be creating original content for both stations that is designed for a bilingual audience.

Financing July 2018

UC Merced Receives Grant To Expand Biology Curriculum [Education News]

University of California, Merced has received their first Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) grant. The grant’s purpose is to make science education specifically STEM more inclusive. UC Merced is one of 33 schools to join the HHMI Inclusive Excellence initiative. They will receive $1 million over the course of the next five years to test a new undergraduate biological sciences curriculum.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Dozens Of Immigrant Children Will Be Reunited With Parents [Beyond Education]

Dozens of immigrant children will be released from detention centers and reunited with their parents Tuesday. A government lawyer said Monday at least 54 children under the age of 5 would join their parents by a court-ordered deadline, only about half the 100 or so children covered by the order. The Trump administration was working on final background checks for another five children ahead of Tuesday's deadline.

Global July 2018

Daring Rescue Saves All 12 Boys, Soccer Coach From Thai Cave [Beyond Education]

All 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the Thai navy SEALs said Tuesday, ending an 18-day ordeal that riveted people around the world. The SEALs, who were central to the rescue effort, said on their Facebook page that the remaining four boys and their 25-year-old coach were all brought out safely Tuesday.

Financing July 2018

New Game Show Will Pay Up To 100 Percent Of Student Loan Debt [Education News]

TruTV Network is premiering a new game show called “Paid Off.” The contestants have all been affected by student loan debt. Each episode three contestants mostly in their late 20s or early 30s square off to answer a variety of trivia questions, including categories with an education-related twist on questions with “ology” or surveys about the best job you can have in college.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Reunited Immigrant Children Scooped Up Into Parents' Arms [Beyond Education]

Lugging little backpacks, smiling immigrant children were scooped up into their parents' arms Tuesday as the Trump administration scrambled to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families at the border. The Justice Department said more than 50 children under age 5 could be back in the arms of their parents by the deadline at the end of the day.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Protesters Targeting Northeastern U Over $2.7M ICE Contract [Education News]

Northeastern University students and community activists are demanding the school cancel a multimillion-dollar research contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Federal spending data show that Northeastern has received $2.7 million from ICE over the last two years. Northeastern says the grant isn't funding research that has anything to do with immigration enforcement.

Legal July 2018

Texas Professors Seek To Revive Campus Carry Law Challenge [Education News]

Attorneys for three University of Texas professors were set to ask a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive their lawsuit against a law allowing people with concealed-handgun licenses to carry weapons on public campuses. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was hearing the arguments.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Medical Experts Worry About Testing DNA To Reunite Families [Beyond Education]

The Trump administration's use of DNA testing to match migrant children separated from their parents is justifiable as a last resort, medical experts say, but raises a host of ethical problems. That includes the risk of damaging the family fabric by revealing that an adult thought to be the biological parent really is not.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Exhausted And Subdued, Reunited Families Return To Guatemala [Beyond Education]

Chartered flights full of deportees from the United States regularly arrive in the Central American country, but Tuesday's flight was among the first containing families separated at the border under President Donald Trump's contentious zero-tolerance policy. More than 2,300 children were separated from their families before a June 20 order stopping the practice.

Financing July 2018

University Of South Carolina Raises Tuition Nearly 3 Percent [Education News]

The University of South Carolina is raising undergraduate tuition costs for the coming year nearly 3 percent. The school's board of trustees approved the increase Wednesday. The school said in a news release that in addition to the 2.9 percent tuition increase, there will also be a 3.5 percent increase in food service and about a 4 percent increase in housing costs, depending on the dorm.

Global July 2018

This Week’s Top 5 Trending Headlines In Education And Beyond

Every Friday Hispanic Outlook features the headlines that received the most views on our Facebook page in a special regular feature on our website. These headlines can include breaking news stories, as well as articles related to the field of education and/or the Hispanic community.

Global July 2018

This Week’s Top 5 Trending Headlines In Education And Beyond

Every Friday Hispanic Outlook features the headlines that received the most views on our Facebook page in a special regular feature on our website. These headlines can include breaking news stories, as well as articles related to the field of education and/or the Hispanic community.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now A Billion-Dollar Industry [Beyond Education]

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017.

Hispanic Community July 2018

Pompeo Travels To Mexico To Meet New Leftist President-Elect [Beyond Education]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lead a Cabinet-level delegation to Mexico on Friday on the heels of a sea-change election there that could offer a chance for the neighbors to repair strained relations — or make them worse. U.S.-Mexico ties have deteriorated significantly under President Donald Trump, who campaigned on building a border wall and who has repeatedly blamed Mexico for economic and social problems in the United States.