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Johanna Windon, an immigrant from Bogotá, Colombia, faced challenges as a child due to her limited English skills. However, she persevered and became the first in her family to attend college, eventually becoming a teacher. Windon and her husband, James, now own a chain of fry restaurants called Buena Papa. Windon's background as a teacher has provided her with valuable skills that she applies to the restaurant business, such as dedication, determination, and community education. The Windons appeared on Shark Tank and struck a deal with Robert Herjavec, who was also an immigrant. Windon attributes their success to their shared immigrant background and her experience as a teacher. [Extracted from the article]

Lester Rápalo, the president of Rockland Community College (RCC), is focused on increasing enrollment and boosting the school's reputation. RCC, located in Suffern, NY, is an HSI with a diverse student body, including students from various Hispanic cultures. Rápalo, who is the first Latino president in RCC's history, has a track record of success in higher education leadership, including increasing graduation rates and winning awards. He is committed to promoting diversity, workforce development, and investing in the school's human capital to ensure upward mobility for students. [Extracted from the article]

President Jose Fierro of Cerritos Community College in Norwalk, California, is dedicated to empowering student success by addressing external barriers that prevent low-income students from thriving in college. With a high Latinx enrollment, Cerritos College provides resources such as a basic needs center called the Falcon's Nest, which offers free food and clothing to students in need. Additionally, the college is working on housing projects to support homeless and home insecure students. Under President Fierro's leadership, Cerritos College has seen improvements in completion rates and the success of student programs. [Extracted from the article]

With nothing more than a suitcase and a coat, Brenda Thames hopped off a Greyhound bus in downtown Oakland bound for UC Berkley, where she was enrolled. Although some CTE areas offer students with associate degrees high-paying jobs, an associate's degree can't be a terminal degree in today's economy, says Dr. Thames. [Extracted from the article]

To assist digitally challenged students, each of SDCCE's seven campuses has a digital navigator, a tech-savvy individual who supports students on SDCCE's various platforms. San Diego College of Continuing Education (SDCCE), an HSI with 37 percent of its students identifying as Hispanic, served about 17,000 students in 2021-22, and averaged almost 36,000 students in the three years leading up to the pandemic. Administration At twenty-two years of age, Tina M. King was teaching in the Beverly Hills Unified School District. [Extracted from the article]

Dr. Salvador Hector Ochoa, president of Texas A&M-San Antonio, has dedicated his career to supporting Hispanic students and ensuring their success. He has conducted research on bilingual psychoeducational assessment and educational programming for Latino students, focusing on meeting students where they are and addressing any gaps in curriculum alignment. Dr. Ochoa has also prioritized partnerships with community colleges to create seamless pathways for students to transfer to four-year schools. At A&M-San Antonio, he actively engages with first-generation students and their families, providing support and empowering them to advocate for their children. Dr. Ochoa's leadership style is informed by his educational background and research, and he emphasizes the importance of creating change at a pace that is both effective and sustainable. He is currently facing the challenge of managing the rapid growth of the institution and ensuring that the infrastructure keeps up with the increasing enrollment. [Extracted from the article]

It's hard for human beings living on planet Earth to navigate the world without encountering various forms of AI countless times throughout their day. Teachers have a responsibility to talk about the ethics of AI and engage their students in conversations about AI. Teaching Students Foundational Skills Huckaby encourages teachers to view AI as a tool and find ways to help students use it as a thought partner rather than using it to just write an essay. [Extracted from the article]

HCCC's demographics are the polar opposite of the school Dr. Reber led just before coming to Jersey City. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Dr. Reber served as president of the Community College of Beaver County before his appointment at HCCC. With 25 years as president of HCCC, Glen Gabert, Dr. Reber's predecessor, gained significant respect. [Extracted from the article]

Showcasing Artists from Emerging-Communities Early in the process of establishing the museum, Santalo cultivated a professional relationship with Gianni D'Alerta, who Santalo calls "the first friend of the NFT Museum." Since the Lynn Museum opened its doors, universities have been reaching out to Santalo for guidance on creating NFT museums and seeking partnerships within the NFT space. Art aficionados who want to view the Mona Lisa in all its glory must travel to Paris and visit the Louvre. [Extracted from the article]

"The center provides mentoring and academic support in a learning-centered space for students to connect with faculty, staff, and peers in order to grow personal-ly and excel academically", says Yang. Although he's UCSB's chancellor, Dr. Yang's first love is teaching, and each year he teaches an undergraduate course in mechanical engineering while guiding Ph.D. candidates to their degrees. Born abroad and coming to the US to further his engineering education, Dr. Yang identifies with those Hispanic students who are excited about STEM and are the first of their families to walk onto a college campus and navigate a higher education system that can seem intimidating. [Extracted from the article]

Using ChatGPT to Reimagine Education Despite its shortcomings and its ability to tempt students to plagiarize, professors and teachers still may want to integrate ChatGPT into their curriculum. The document was developed and issued so NYU students know where their professors stand on the use of these technologies, and faculty doesn't presume their students know whether ChatGPT is or isn't allowed. [Extracted from the article]

Complete this phrase: Achilles_____. If your answer was tendon, you're obviously a good student of athletics. But if your answer was heel, you're already well on your way to understanding [...]

With numbers like this, it's easy to understand why two-year schools are using a variety of strategies to recruit Hispanic students, help them pay for school, and persist to a certificate or degree. It's almost become a cliche to say that the COVID 19 pandemic has changed the way Americans work, play, and go to school. [Extracted from the article]

IN 1913 THOMAS Edison declared that motion pictures were going to revolutionize education, estimating that individuals only absorb 2 percent of the material they read but 100 percent of what [...]

Hector Balderas, President of Northern New Mexico College, shares his personal story of growing up in poverty and overcoming challenges to achieve success. He emphasizes the importance of using his own experiences to motivate and inspire at-risk families. As New Mexico's Attorney General, Balderas sought to transform the culture of his office to prioritize the needs of families and victims. He also worked on student loan reform and advocated for under-served students in higher education funding. Balderas believes in eliminating labels and building coalitions to address issues facing Latino families, and he is focused on transforming Northern New Mexico College into a highly effective organization that supports and empowers its students. [Extracted from the article]

They can, however, afford tuition at public liberal arts colleges, usually a fraction of those at private liberal arts colleges. Nere, who spent time at a private liberal arts college, says that although the privates have funding routes for students, they can't bridge the financial gap as well as the public liberal arts colleges. Private liberal arts colleges and public liberal arts colleges offer similar programs and thus attract the same type of student. [Extracted from the article]

According to authors Katie Davis and Howard Gardner, today's students view their lives as a string of ordered apps. Does this mindset help or hurt their ability to think creatively? [...]

"People tend to see health as an individual thing… The pandemic has made it clear that we need to worry about the health of entire communities because anyone's health can very rapidly become everyone's health", says Dr. Cauce. When Dr. Cauce launched a population health initiative at Washington some years back, she had difficulty convincing stakeholders that community health was interconnected. "If they had the talent and the drive to make it to college, income and the cost of college wasn't going to be a factor", says Dr. Cauce. [Extracted from the article]

We're going to have programs at CSUMB to start trying to reach students early on to see the value of a degree", says Dr. Quiñones. "You're going to have family units where the mom is the person who went to college and is the doctor, the professor, the nurse", says Dr. Quiñones. As a neuroscientist and physiologist, Dr. Vanya Quiñones began studying the human brain in the early 1980s to understand gene expression and how it controls behaviors. [Extracted from the article]

"The goal is not just to get back to where they were before the pandemic, like those low wage jobs, but to get into better jobs, and better paying jobs", says Hegewisch. Latinas who are searching for equal pay to white men are going to be waiting a long time. If that's not discouraging enough, Latinas have seen little progress in equal pay over the past decade and, according to the US Department of Labor, experience the largest wage gap of any major racial or ethnic group. [Extracted from the article]

Dr. Bergad calls CLACLS a dynamic research center dedicated to serving the Latino population and Latino students of the New York Metropolitan area. If it fails to financially support Latino doctoral candidates, higher education will get caught in a never-ending cycle in which only sons and daughters of PhDs will pursue PhDs, stacking the odds even higher against first-generation, immigrant students. Gathering and Disseminating Better Data Founded in 2001, CUNY's Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) is a research center that encourages Latino students to enroll in CUNY's graduate center. [Extracted from the article]

To ensure more individuals earn a certificate or degree, Alamo college offers the PROMISE program, which helps Alamo students finance their degree. Mike Flores recalls sitting in the back of college classrooms as a young boy growing up in the 1970s, having been brought there by his mother, who, despite limited childcare options, was determined to earn a college degree. "Malcolm Baldrige provided us with a model and a protocol to stand up and pilot things that we were able to bring to scale across the whole district, and not only positively impact students at one college, but be able to positively impact students at all five colleges", says Flores. [Extracted from the article]

A bilingual program needs teachers who can deliver instruction in the native language of the learners, and those teachers need rigorous course materials. Native English speakers learning Spanish, however, not held to that same standard, garnering praise from teachers for speaking language with errors or without reading or writing it proficiently. Years ago, educators ill-advisedly assumed Spanish speakers who associated with native English speakers in classrooms would learn English through osmosis, treating them like Pavlov's dog. [Extracted from the article]

"It's the constitution of the student body that changes the culture of the campus, not necessarily the designation or whether the school is an emerging HSI or a current HSI", says Bitar. Bitar is eager to study current HSIs to determine which ones apply their funding to current student success initiatives as opposed to creating intentional and specific student support for Latinos. Although HSIs, eHSIs, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), HSIs and eHSIs don't share a history with HBCUs. [Extracted from the article]

Dr. Davis agrees with Dr. Rich and says that students who write their notes are more engaged in the learning process. It's easy to take notes on a laptop while someone is dictating, says Dr. Rich, but then students are just stenographers. [Extracted from the article]

Impressed by Garcia's accomplishments at Colorado State, John Hickenlooper, Colorado's gubernatorial hopeful, asked Garcia to run on his ticket for Lieutenant Governor. As an undergraduate at the University of Colorado and a member of the United Mexican-American Students group and the Chicano Business Student Association, Joe Garcia grew concerned about equity in higher education. [Extracted from the article]