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Bullying In School, You Gotta Nip It In The Bud

Mary Mata October 4, 2011

When I was in sixth grade, there was a girl in school that decided I was someone she could pick on. My parents had moved my sisters and I to […]

Latino Students Missing From Alabama Schools

Mary Mata October 3, 2011

It Begins: Children Missing From Alabama Schools

Mary Mata September 30, 2011

Today Is The First National Day Of Spanish

Mary Mata

Buenos días, bienvenidos al primer Día de Español. If you recall Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez  had the idea for the day as part of a movement to stand in “support and […]

Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Fight Is Simply About Hate

Mary Mata September 29, 2011

By Salomón Baldenegro, Retired Asst. Dean of Students & Instructor at the University of Arizona Our fight to save ethnic studies (a misnomer: only the Mexican-American studies curriculum is under […]

Latino Childhood Poverty Sets Record

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The headline across the top of a Pew Hispanic Center press release is ominous: The Toll of the Great Recession. The body of the story doesn’t get any better. More Latino […]

Cultural Competency, New Media Vital To Young Latino Success

Mary Mata September 28, 2011

Every year I endeavor to advance the capabilities of a strategic sector of undergraduate students by providing leadership training, exposure to new Latino-based research findings and a multidimensional model for […]