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Project upGRADS Addresses Academic Barriers for Latinx Graduate Students

Photos courtesy of CSU Fullerton Cal State Fullerton’s federally funded Project upGRADS enhances Latinx and underrepresented students’ access to graduate education through advising, mentorship, scholarships, and cultural awareness initiatives, significantly improving enrollment, retention, and graduation rates while fostering community and institutional transformation.

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Katherine Powers & Volker Janssen

Financing January 2025 Premium

Retirement Distress and Financial Wellness

Hispanics face retirement challenges due to low financial literacy, limited savings, and distrust of financial institutions. Improved education, proactive planning, and investment in diverse assets like real estate and mutual funds can help bridge wealth gaps and ensure financial security.

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Gustavo A. Mellander

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Hispanic Community March 2011 Premium

University of Illinois at Chicago’s Luis Alberto Urrea: From Despair to Acclaim, <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was February 1982 and Luis Alberto Urrea, 26-year-old University of California- San Diego graduate, was doing full-time relief work with shanty dwellers in Tijuana’s wretched city dump. Surrounded by surreal squalor during the day, Urrea slept on relatives’ couches in Southern California at night, broke and depressed and worried about his future. Desperate to start over, Urrea wrote Lowry Pei, his college writing instructor who was now at Harvard, and asked for help.

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Clay Latimer

Administration March 2011 Premium

Baby Doc’s Second Act by <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Youheard the one about the three biggest lies in the world? “Of course, I’ll still love you in the morning.” “The check is in the mail.” “I’m from the federal government and I’m here to help.” That last one can be applied in a somewhat similar context to Jean- Claude Duvalier, the former president of Haiti who showed up unexpectedly in Port-au-Prince in January saying he was so moved by the current plight of his countrymen that he had to come home to help them.

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Carlos D. Conde

Arts and Media February 2011 Premium

Patricia Zavella: Exceptional Teacher, First-Rate Scholar, Committed Activist <b> Clay Latimer </b>

As chair of Latin American and Latino studies, Professor Patricia Zavella is charged with making things run smoothly in her department at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC). But her job doesn’t end on the picturesque campus, nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking Monterey Bay. Zavella spends much of her time in another part of the county – another world, really – the migrant labor neighborhoods in nearby Watsonville. For a decade, the acclaimed cultural anthropologist interviewed and observed migrant people for her forthcoming book, I’m Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty.

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Clay Latimer

Arts and Media February 2011 Premium

Literature an Enduring Passion for Professor Ester González <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was an ordinary day for most students at Johns Hopkins University. Classes, exams, meetings – the routine routine. But there was nothing mundane about it for Ester Gimbernat González, a young, ambitious literature student from Argentina. Filled with anticipation, she stepped for the first time into the campus library, a vast place where every section was lined with books she wanted to read or catch up on. “When the doors opened, I was so happy, I couldn’t leave,” she said. “I was in heaven.”

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Clay Latimer

Administration February 2011 Premium

No More Pencils, No More Books

Fewer than 50 percent of the students at Virginia State University (VSU) have the means to purchase the textbooks needed for their courses. Even with the odds stacked against them, some complete their courses, albeit with great difficulty.

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Frank DiMaria

Administration February 2011 Premium

The System Is Broken, Ad Nauseam <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

There’s a fruit vendor in my border hometown in Texas who sells fresh fruit from his truck. He’s a popular figure because he’s good with the “pilon,” the baker’s dozen giving, let’s say, 15 oranges for the price of a dozen. His wife was a coveted seamstress until an immigration patrol picked her up and sent her back to Mexico. She was gone a few months, probably took the time to visit relatives, and now she’s back again to her routine, probably still illegal.

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Carlos D. Conde

Hispanic Community February 2011 Premium

For Brazil, the Future Has Arrived <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

In1941, so the story goes, Austrian author Stephan Zweig migrated to Brazil and, being so enamored with his new homeland and its potential, praised it in a book as the “country of the future” and then committed suicide. Not that these frustrations were to blame, but it supposedly gave rise to one of the most hackneyed references to this South American colossal – “the country of the future and always will be.”

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Carlos D. Conde

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