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Hispanic Community October 2024

Riverland Community College: A Beacon of Opportunity and Growth in Southeastern Minnesota

Riverland Community College, founded in 1996, plays a vital role in southeastern Minnesota’s workforce development and education. With campuses in Austin, Albert Lea, and Owatonna, it offers diverse programs and was recognized as an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in 2024. The college is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, supporting all students, especially its growing Hispanic population.

Kenneth A. Reid

Hispanic Community April 2026 Premium

Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in Latin America, Part II

Earth’s unique biodiversity faces severe human-driven threats. The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve exemplifies both rich natural and cultural heritage and ongoing challenges, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable conservation, community involvement, and greater awareness to protect ecosystems for future generations.

Hispanic Community March 2026 Premium

Did you know? Sor Juana’s Fearless Words

A leading intellectual voice of the seventeenth century, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz defended women’s right to knowledge and justice. In A los hombres, she criticizes the hypocrisy and double standards with which society judges women.

Hispanic Community January 2026

Did you know? 2026 Calendar of Events in the U.S. and Latin America

As the year gets underway, Hispanic Outlook brings readers a calendar highlighting national holidays and key electoral, cultural, and international events scheduled for 2026 in Latin America.

Hispanic Community January 2018

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.

Hispanic Community February 2011 Premium

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

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.

Jeff Simmons

Hispanic Community March 2011 Premium

Scholars’ Corner by Irene I. Vega

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.

Irene I. Vega

Hispanic Community March 2011 Premium

Young Latino Realities by Gustavo A. Mellander

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.

Gustavo A. Mellander

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

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

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.

Gustavo A. Mellander

Hispanic Community October 2016 Premium

A New Goal for a New Year by Gustavo A. Mellander

A new academic year has begun. And although nobody knows for sure, the actual number of Hispanics enrolled at our colleges will be, I predict, another bumper crop.

Gustavo A. Mellander

Hispanic Community December 2016 Premium

Graduate Degrees and Jobs by Gustavo A. Mellander

More Hispanic students are pursuing graduate studies. Some graduate degrees lead to enhanced employment opportunities at significantly higher salaries; some don’t. I report on both.

Gustavo A. Mellander

Hispanic Community July 2017 Premium

Hispanic Household Income Hsis and Bad Loans by Gustavo A. Mellander

There is some good news about Hispanic reality in this country and some lingering bad news. So I begin.

Gustavo A. Mellander

Hispanic Community January 2011 Premium

15 Tips for Minority Students to Get Accepted into Ivy League and Elite Colleges by Gary M. Stern

Pam Proctor adds that elite colleges are looking for a three-legged stool: top SAT scores; high GPAs; and one attribute, skill or experience that sets a student apart from the others.

Gary M. Stern

Hispanic Community June 2017 Premium

The USC Center for Urban Education: Using Data and Scorecards to Achieve Equity and Improve Graduation Rates by Gary M. Stern

"Students of color are more likely to engage with material when they see its relevance to their community and lives." Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux, associate director for research and policy for the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California

Gary M. Stern

Hispanic Community February 2015 Premium

Diversity Initiatives Multifaceted and Productive at UT-Austin by Frank DiMaria

When students returned to the University of Texas (UT)- Austin last fall they found that, for the first time in the school’s history, fewer than half of the fall semester’s first time freshmen were White students. The number of first-time freshmen who identified their ethnicity/ race as “White” on admissions information totaled 47.6 percent.

Frank DiMaria

Hispanic Community January 2017 Premium

"Students Reach Higher” With Apps Designed to Put Them on a Career Path

"Students can use Hats and Ladders on their own, however, they’ll find greater value if they learn how to use it from a guidance counselor or a teacher. Hats and Ladders helps counselors and teachers restore the wide-eyed optimism students had as youngsters."

Frank DiMaria

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