For decades, colleges and universities have combated a history of exclusion of racial minorities and established an array of programs
Category: Higher Education
“The Chicano Voice is Shouting to be Heard!”: The University of Minnesota’s 1971 Midwest Higher Education Institute
In 1969, Chicano[i] students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UM-Twin Cities) organized a student group called Latin Liberation Front
Essential Latinx Educators: Teaching in a Time of Pandemic
COVID-19 continues to take a disproportionate toll on Latinxs because many have low-paying jobs that require them to interact with
Compassionate Pedagogies in a Pandemic: Reflections from Latina Scholars
In the midst of the current global pandemic, we have read wide-ranging advice about how to maintain our professionalism in
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two
It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One
What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender
Strategies for Negotiating Power and Privilege in Academia
A year ago, a former student, Ishman Anderson, a young Black man currently a doctoral candidate in the San Francisco
Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future
I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.
Building the First Latinx Educational Midwest Conference at the University of Iowa
The first University of Iowa College of Education Latinx Educational Excellence in the Midwest Conference was held October 20 –