Latino Grads Suffered More During Recession

Latino Grads Suffered More During Recession

Mary Mata June 13, 2011

Latino college graduates suffered much more than their white counterparts when the economy began a downturn over the past few years, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center. […]

Mother’s Legal Status Used To Deny Financial Aid

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A New Jersey high school student finds herself in the unlikely position of suing the government for an opportunity to go to college. According to a report in the Huffington […]

Latinas, Not Latinos, Hold The Future In Their Hands

Mary Mata June 9, 2011

As we are already aware, the first wave of U.S. Latino baby boomers are now exiting exceptional positions of power and influence. During the era when the eldest members of […]

Less Than 6 Million Latino Adults Have A College Degree

Mary Mata June 7, 2011

Recently I was perusing Census data to determine, exactly, how many Latinos in this country have college degrees. Given that Latinos are a fast growing portion of the U.S. population, […]

Bien Hecho: Latinitas Inspires Girls With Media, Tech

Mary Mata

Latinitas Magazine started off in 2002 as a way to help empower young Latinas with media and technology. By allowing young women to participate in school programs, teen internships, Saturday and […]

Learning To Live Life En El Subjuntivo

Mary Mata June 2, 2011

My first encounter with el subjuntivo — that’s subjunctive, that crazy verb mood that causes Spanish students everywhere to tense up — was curious, confusing and somewhat embarrassing. Because we’ve all […]

Volunteerism Essential To The Success Of Latino Youth

Mary Mata

If you’re reading this, it’s likely you form part of  the massive cluster of former beneficiaries of student initiatives and scholarships that were developed by community-based Latino organizations such as […]

Multitasking, Reduced Alzheimer’s, More Bilingualism Pluses

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

Being bilingual — really bilingual, where you constantly use both languages — has all kinds of positive benefits for people. The New York Times had a conversation with cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen […]

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Talks Benefits Of Immigration

Mary Mata May 30, 2011

U.S. Secretary of Labor, Hilda L. Solis is accustomed to highlighting issues that, for others, are easily forgotten. At a town hall at East Los Angeles College Friday, Solis participated […]

New Museum Opens In East LA

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

A new museum has opened on the East Los Angeles College campus, courtesy actor Vincent Price, who donated 2,000 works of art to the recently opened Vincent Price Museum of Art […]