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Who will teach Ethnic Studies?
California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place. By Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher-Ed – Nov. 24, 2020 Months after California State University’s new ethnic studies requirement was signed into law, the debate ... -
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana: “El impacto Histórico de la Revolución Mexicana para el Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos” El viernes 20 de Noviembre de 2020 a partir de las 5 PM hora Estándar del Pacífico (PST), el Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, Profesor Emérito y Líder ... -
Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Fundraising Initiative
The CMSC is launching a new fundrive initiative from November 1 to December 31, 2020 to solicit sponsors and grants in support of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, which will allow 85 DACA recipients to travel to Mexico with DACA’s Advance Parole permit, immerse in a unique U.S.-Mexico national security study ... -
CSU graduation rates continue to climb, but equity gaps continue
By NINA AGRAWAL, Los Angeles Times – OCT. 23, 2020 Halfway through a 10-year initiative to increase the share of students who graduate, the nation’s largest public university continues to make steady progress on improving overall graduation rates but remains stymied by stubborn equity gaps and faces the threat of backsliding ... -
Racial equality back on the ballot in Proposition 16
By PHIL WILLON, LOS ANGELES TIMES – OCT. 18, 2020 SACRAMENTO — The end of affirmative action in California came almost a quarter-century ago, a time when people took to the streets in Los Angeles and San Francisco to protest racial inequality and as a presidential election stoked deep divisions in ... -
12 de octubre: China pudo haber “descubierto” América antes que Colón
Por: BBC News Mundo , La Opinión – 09 de Octubre 2020 Algunos autores plantean otras alternativas que ponen a China a la vanguardia de los viajes de exploración por América mucho antes que Cristóbal Colón. Cuando Cristóbal Colón se lanzó a atravesar los grandes espacios vacíos al oeste de ... -
Gov. Newsom vetoes Ethnic Studies Bill AB-331
By NINA AGRAWAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES – SEP. 30, 2020 A bid to make a one-semester ethnic studies course a high school graduation requirement was vetoed late Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who cited the ongoing controversy over the appropriate curriculum in his message on the legislation. “I value the role ... -
Meet the new Chancellor of the Cal State system
Friday: Joseph Castro will be the first Californian and the first Mexican-American to lead the nation’s biggest four-year public university system. By Jill Cowan, New York Times – Sep. 25, 2020 Good morning. Earlier this week, the California State University announced its next leader: Joseph Castro, who has served as ... -
CSU gets its first chancellor of color: Fresno State president Joseph I. Castro
By NINA AGRAWAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES – SEP. 23, 2020 Joseph I. Castro, the grandson of farmworkers and a first-generation college student who rose during a career in higher education to lead Cal State Fresno, has been named chancellor of California State University, the largest four-year system in the nation, trustees ... -
Fidel Castro’s fateful New York visit 60 years later
BY ANDREW DOWNIE, AMERICAS QUARTERLY – SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Simon Hall’s "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" recounts how a brief trip put the Cuban leader on the world stage. When Fidel Castro arrived in New York to address the UN General Assembly in ...
