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Soy de aquí, soy de allá: DACAmented homecomings and implications for identity and belonging
By: Alissa Ruth. Emir Estrada. Stefanie Martinez‑Fuentes. Armando Vazquez‑Ramos. – Latino Studies – 22 July 2019 Abstract This article is based on in-depth interviews with deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries from California and Arizona who traveled to Mexico, their country of origin, for the first time since they ... -
Cal State Chancellor Timothy P. White, who aimed for ambitious reforms, announces retirement
By NINA AGRAWAL, Los Angeles Times – OCT. 22, 2019 California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White, who undertook ambitious reforms to improve student achievement but was criticized at times for budget and policy decisions at the nation’s largest public university system, announced Tuesday that he will retire next year. White, ... -
UCLA professor wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
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 ... -
El Legado e importancia de Estudios Chicanos para México y los Mexicanos
By: Prof. Armando Vázquez-Ramos Los Latinos son la minoría étnica más grande en Estados Unidos, acorde a la oficina del Censo de aquel país, casi 60 millones de personas son Latinas, de las cuales el 63 por ciento son de origen mexicanoamericano (United States Census Bureau, 2016). Es una población ... -
Require ethnic studies for California students. But first, rewrite the curriculum
By GEORGE SKELTON, Los Angeles Times ~ AUG. 29, 2019 There’s a legislative move to require all high school students to take an ethnic studies course or they can’t graduate. And that raises three serious questions: — Should ethnic studies be forced on every California student or remain an elective as ... -
Ethnic studies bill delayed in California amid controversy
By HOWARD BLUME, NINA AGRAWAL ~ Los Angeles Times, AUG. 22, 2019 A proposed law that would require all California high school students take an ethnic studies course is on hold for this year after the draft curriculum prompted weeks of escalating controversy from diverse groups whose members said they were misrepresented ... -
Expansion would hobble California’s ethnic studies curriculum
By ALEX WIGGLESWORTH , Los Angeles Times ~ AUG. 21, 2019 A broad coalition of educators and student groups is defending California’s draft ethnic studies curriculum and expressed concern that substantial revisions could weaken the integrity of the academic discipline. State education leaders said last week that the draft curriculum “falls short and ... -
Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell
By Dana Goldstein, New York Times ~ Aug. 15, 2019 Discuss a recent instance of police brutality in your community. Read op-eds arguing for and against legal status for unauthorized immigrants. Compare and contrast border conditions in the Palestinian territories and Mexico. Those are some of the lesson plans suggested in ... -
The Way of Leo: 5 Lessons on Academic Mentorship
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 ...
