By JESSICA GELT, LOS ANGELES TIMES – JAN. 11, 2021 A Diego Rivera mural estimated to be worth $50 million has sparked outcry from artist Catherine Opie and others who worry that its owner, the financially troubled San Francisco Art Institute, might sell the work to keep its doors open. The ...

La Universidad Estatal de Mississippi nominó a la maestra salvadoreña Karina Zelaya para recibir un prestigioso premio que entrega una universidad alemana. Por Susana Joma, ElSalvador.com – Enero 3, 2021 Tras migrar a California, Estados Unidos, cuando tenía 13 años, la salvadoreña Karina Zelaya logró cursar estudios universitarios mediante becas. ...

By: Salvador Rivera, Border Report – Dec 22, 2020 SAN DIEGO — San Diego State University has agreed to set up a foundation for an upcoming partnership between the university and the government of Mexico. The school, which was founded in 1897, already has professors, individual colleges, and departments that ...

"We have overcome tremendous obstacles and unbelievable hurdles to get to this historic moment," said Sen. Bob Menendez, who co-sponsored the measure. By Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News – Dec. 21, 2020 Congress approved legislation Monday to start the process of creating a national Latino museum as part of a $900 ...

California State University chancellor Timothy White sought to tie his own story to those of the system and its students. That meant putting off retirement this year as the system sought stability amid the pandemic. By: Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher-Ed – Dec. 18, 2020 Timothy White, the chancellor of the ...

Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/7bce6da83f52/celebrating-our-10th-year-anniversary-and-first-winter-2020-advance-parole-approval ______________________________________________________________________ The CMSC is celebrating our 10th year anniversary and the first Advance Parole application approved for our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) celebrates this month our 10th year anniversary as an educational and cultural 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to ...

Originally published on: sdsualumni.org San Diego State University has entered into an agreement with the government of Mexico that paves the way for the expansion of binational cooperation across a wide range of initiatives. The non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) between SDSU, the Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico and ...

By: Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Ed – December 8, 2020 More than 40 Hispanic civil rights and policy groups, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, are urging President-elect Biden to pick a former National Education Association president, Lily Eskelsen García, as education secretary. “Eskelsen García is the ideal candidate to ...

By: Max Lubin, Cal Matters – Dec. 3, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden won the election with the most ambitious education agenda in the modern era. From tripling Title 1 funding for low-income schools to eliminating tuition for most families, his plans will need an Education Secretary with the savvy to ...

By Nora Neus, CNN – Nov. 26, 2020 In second grade, Santiago Potes walked into Marina Esteva's gifted and talented classroom at Sweetwater Elementary School in Miami, Florida, for the first time. He was an undocumented immigrant from Colombia who entered the country when he was 4 years old. Esteva ...