Global March 2017 Premium

Discovery Education And 3m Search For America’s 2017 Top Young Scientist; Chance For $25,000 And One-Of-A-Kind Summer Mentorship With 3m Scientist

Discovery Education and 3M are proud to announce the opening of the 10th annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier science competition for students in grades 5-8. This program, offers young inventors the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be mentored by a 3M Scientist Mentor, compete for $25,000, and earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

Global February 2017 Premium

SERVING SAC’S BACKYARD A Look at How San Antonio College Is Addressing Issues of Access, Persistence and Completion

Founded in 1925 under the auspices of the University of Texas, SAC, then named “University Junior College,” was the first public institution in San Antonio and one of the first community colleges in the state of Texas.

Global January 2017 Premium

CHILDREN OF FOREIGN-BORN PARENTS More Likely to Be College-educated Than Their Parents, Census Bureau Reports

Native-born children of a foreign-born parent, also known as the second-generation, were more likely to be college-educated and have higher incomes than their parents’ generation, according to a first-ever report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Additionally, this second-generation group surpasses education and income levels of the generations that follow them.

Global January 2017 Premium

NASA REMEMBERS AMERICAN LEGEND JOHN GLENN

Throughout 2016, Americans were consumed with the “soap opera” that was the presidential election. The intensity and drama of the contest crowded out most other news of the day – particularly in the area of science and technology, a major emphasis in higher education for the 21st century, as well as a field replete with Hispanic success stories.

Global December 2016 Premium

The PhD Project Announces 2016 Inductees to Hall of Fame

The PhD Project, an award-winning program to increase diversity in management, announced the 2016 inductees into its PhD Project Hall of Fame.

Global November 2016 Premium

LOOKING FORWARD TO LJFF IN 2021

With LJFF’s first class of Akron I PROMISE Network students now in eighth grade, the I PROMISE Institute is currently conducting research on resources and support programs around the country to determine the best tactics and procedures to have in place by the time its students arrive on The University of Akron campus in 2021.

Global November 2016 Premium

LEBRON JAMES FOUNDATION Opens Institute to Aid College Students

LeBron James isn’t just helping kids afford college. He wants them to stay there and leave with diplomas.

Global November 2016 Premium

PUBLISHER’S PICKS

Each year The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine gives a shout out to schools that have distinguished themselves for their commitment to diversity and providing students with the best possible education outcomes. Here’s a list of schools we think meets those standards.

Global September 2016

Cooke Foundation Recommends Actions Top Colleges Should Take to Increase Enrollment of Low-Income Students

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has released an issue brief recommending actions that top colleges and universities should take to increase campus diversity by enrolling greater numbers of academically qualified low-income students. The issue brief comes a day after a U.S. Supreme decision rejecting a challenge to race-conscious affirmative action admissions in the case of Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin.

Global September 2016 Premium

Hispanic-Serving State Colleges and Universities Aim to Boost Political, Civic Engagement

The “Walk 2 Vote” event is just a part of the school’s nonpartisan efforts to increase political engagement, giving the UHD a 50 percent student voter rate in 2012. It’s a notable achievement on an overwhelmingly racially diverse and non-traditional student campus; 71 percent of registered students voted in that election.

Global May 2016 Premium

My Brother’s Keeper Having Positive Impact in Communities of Color

The NoVo Foundation’s efforts to assist young women comes at a time when My Brother’s Keeper, an Obama White House initiative aimed at young men is touting his own successes.

Global May 2016 Premium

Babson Study Distance Education Enrollment Growth Continues, Courtesy of the Babson Survey Research Group

The 2015 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group in partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), Pearson, WCET, StudyPortals and Tyton Partners and released this year reveals the number of higher education students taking at least one distance education course in 2015 is up 3.9 percent over the previous year. Growth, however, was uneven; private non-profit institutions grew by 11.3 percent while private for-profit institutions saw their distance enrollments decline by 2.8 percent. These and other findings were published in a report titled, “Online Report Card: Tracking Online Education in the United States.”