LATINO EDUCATORS FOR FREE TRADE AND EDUCATION
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Signing the trade deal into law is a rare legislative achievement for the president going into his reelection campaign. By: Sabrina Rodriguez, Politico – Jan. 29, 2020 President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed his signature trade deal with Mexico and Canada into law, sealing a big bipartisan win for him ...
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By CELINA TEBOR, Los Angeles Times – SEP. 30, 2019 SAN DIEGO — Kelly Lytle Hernández was in between meetings at UCLA when she got the call that she had received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Her head was spinning. She was speechless. It had never crossed ...
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By Alvaro Huerta, Inside Higher Education ~ June 14, 2019 I have been practicing academic mentorship since I was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles (many moons ago). Once accepted into UCLA, I started to mentor high school students and my siblings in East Los Angeles ...
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Exclusive Op-Ed for El Magonista By Professor Gonzalo Santos, June 1, 2019 North America is, and has been for decades now, a thoroughly integrated economic zone. Intra-regional trade between Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. dwarfs all other trade the U.S. has with the rest of the world. Recently, with the ...
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Irene Sotelo has seen many changes in her life and overcome many obstacles. Sotelo has gone from drugs, prison and homelessness to getting her degree from CSULB in criminology and now pursuing her master degree in Long Beach on Tuesday, November. 20, 2018. She has also founded the Rising Scholars ...
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On Saturday, June 10, 2017, the South County Labor (SCL) union honored Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos with the Consuelo Nieto Patriotic Activism Award for his leadership and advocacy for Dreamers at the 17th Annual Orange County Celebration of our Flag.
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Por: Jaime Valls Esponda, El Universal ~ Junio 6, 2017 La educación superior sirve como punto de encuentro, donde las fronteras no existen y la colaboración académica funge como un puente que conecta a distintas instituciones del mundo. En este contexto, la semana pasada, una delegación de instituciones de educación ...
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By: Earl Anthony Wayne and Sergio M. Alcocer, The Conversation ~ May 29, 2017 Last week, officials from the U.S. and Mexico revitalized their commitment to fight cross-border smuggling of drugs, arms and money. U.S. officials recognized America’s demand for drugs as “the magnet” that feeds drug smuggling, and Mexico committed to tackle jointly the ...
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Monica Gallardo, The Daily 49er ~ November 6, 2016 http://www.daily49er.com/news/2016/11/06/educational-opportunity-program-celebrates-50-years/ Approximately 200 former students of the Educational Opportunity Program reminisced about their academic experience during the program’s 50th anniversary celebration Friday morning at The Pointe inside the Walter Pyramid. Invited guests and their families watched as various speakers discussed the ...
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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times ~ September 28, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-foshay-has-most-usc-freshmen-20160926-snap-story.html Lilly Diaz was in second grade when she first stepped onto the campus of USC for a Halloween carnival organized by undergraduates. By the time she returned to the campus as a freshman this fall, she found nothing especially scary about it. ...