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School Library January 2018 Issue

D. H. Figueredo’s journey to his life today was not an easy one. Referring to himself in an interview once as “a child of the Cuban Revolution,” Figueredo grew up in Cuba and then lived in New Jersey since he was a teenager.

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Finding Inspiration and Encouragement on My Academic Path

Written by Oscar Medina Doctoral Candidate Social and Comparative Studies Administration and Policy Studies University of Pittsburgh

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Tearing Down Excellence and Promoting Mediocrity <b> Miquela Rivera </b>

Recognizing and Overcoming Familia-based Nerd Bullying

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Miquela Rivera

Hispanic Community January 2018

$1.9M in Mellon Foundation Grants Aid Higher Education Institution Latino Humanities Studies

The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $1.9 million to expand undergraduate research in the humanities and to aid doctoral candidates in Latino humanities studies. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants include $1 million as part of the Engage Humanities Initiative over 4 ½ years.

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Higher Education Student in US Illegally Free after Weeks in Custody

A University of California, Berkeley student has been released after nearly three weeks in an immigration facility near the U.S.-Mexico border. His attorney says Luis Mora was released unconditionally from the Otay Mesa Detention Facility on Wednesday. Officials say Mora overstayed his visa while visiting the U.S. from Colombia as a child and is not authorized to be in the country.

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Pope Wraps up Chile Stop with Visit to Migrants, on to Peru [Beyond Education]

Pope Francis wraps up his Chile visit Thursday by meeting with members of the South American nation's booming immigrant community, who are flocking to the region's strongest and most stable economy but are increasingly the focus of political and social discontent. Francis is going to the northern city of Iquique before heading to Peru for the final leg of his two-nation trip.

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Trump Insists His Views on a Border Wall Have Not 'Evolved' [Beyond Education]

President Donald Trump insisted Thursday his views on a border wall with Mexico have not evolved, pushing back against his own chief of staff's comments to lawmakers. Some Democrats who met with White House chief of staff John Kelly on Wednesday say Kelly told them parts of the border don't need a wall — and that Trump didn't know that when making campaign promises.

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Pope Recalls Dictatorship, Indigenous Cause in Symbolic Mass in Chile [Beyond Education]

Pope Francis traveled to the heart of Chile's centuries-old conflict with indigenous peoples Wednesday, celebrating Mass at a former military base that not only lies on contested Mapuche land but also was a former detention center used during Chile's brutal dictatorship, which took place from 1973 to 1990.

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Upcoming UT-Austin Symposium Will Address the “Vanishing” Hispanic Male by <b>Jeff Simmons</b>

In just a few weeks, education and community leaders will gather at the University of Texas (UT)-Austin with hope of addressing a troubling trend on campuses across the nation: the vanishing numbers of Hispanic males in higher education.

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Jeff Simmons

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Scholars’ Corner by <b>Irene I. Vega</b>

My experience with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) began in the summer of 2005. I was living in Washington, D.C., completing the last couple of weeks of a fellowship with the Bert Corona Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides civic education and political empowerment programs for immigrant and migrant youth.

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Irene I. Vega

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Young Latino Realities by <b>Gustavo A. Mellander</b>

There is something perverse in human nature that glories in and feasts on disaster, lingers on negativity. We focus on sensational news, not good news. The more bizarre, the better. Most of us are guilty. Even if we only glance fleetingly at tabloids at supermarkets, our eyes do indeed drift over.

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Gustavo A. Mellander

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Graduate School Realities and College Evolution of Latinas in the U.S. by <b>Gustavo A. Mellander</b>

This issue of HO is dedicated to graduate education. That level of specialized education used to be the domain of the highly intelligent and privileged in our society. Sometimes being privileged, financially secure, was more important than academic superiority. The Ph.D. has long been the pinnacle of graduate education. We also value the university evolution of Latinas.

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Gustavo A. Mellander