Excelencia In Education, in cooperation with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, released Taking Stock: Higher Education and Latinos. The brief summarizes current data on Latinos in higher education and synthesizes the views of elected officials, service providers, and Latino students. ...
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Students earn academic credit to work closely with a graduate student mentor and faculty supervisor to create an internship experience aimed at exploring their chosen field of study. Encouraged to tap personal passions and commitment to community, Latino students make up the largest group of int...
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The Texas-Mexico border region extends from El Paso to the southern most point in Brownsville and includes some of the pooerst counties in the nation. The eight Texas colleges and universities in this region not only lead the nation in enrolling and graduating Hispanic students in the United Stat...
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Gregory Vincent, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, speaks about the nomination process for Excelencia in Education’s "Examples of Excelencia" initiative.
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Carolina is a native of Ecuador. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 10 with her mother and younger brother, and attended a private high school in Maryland on a need-based scholarship, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. She is 21, single, bilingual, a U.S. citizen, and lives with her family. Caroli...
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Ivelisse Estrada’s video address to the 2007 Examples of Excelencia Celebraci?n and Symposium. Ms. Estrada is Senior Vice President of Corporate and Community Relations for Univision Communications Inc. and served as co-chairs for this year?s host committee. Ivelisse Estrada's video address to th...
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An initiative by Excelencia in Education and the Walmart Foundation, giving twenty (20) $50,000 grants to selected institutions to replicate promising programs on their campuses in 2009-2010. The acronym for Seeding Educational Models that Impact and Leverage Latino Academic Success is SEMILLAS,...
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In June 2007, Excelencia invited to Washington, DC, selected Latino students from programs sponsored by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and the Hispanic College Fund. Students participated in a focus group on higher education capacity and affordability and the following day, in a town hall styl...
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With Jeannine La Prad. Even in today’s economy, strategic partnerships between business, community colleges and community based organizations that engage and train younger Hispanic immigrants, boosts productivity and strengthens this important proportion of the U.S. workforce. Excelencia i...
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The Voces town hall meeting featured a panel of Latino college students who discussed how they and their families view college costs, ... all ? affordabilty and opportunity. Anchored by current data on today?s Latino college-going students, this event gave voice to Latino students and will serve...
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