All Blog Posts Tagged 'college' (66)

McDonald's and LULAC are inviting young students to participate in their webinar.It's the 3rd episode of this series and it helps students to apply and get ready for college.If you have any questions about college,financial aid,scholarships or tuition ou can join the webinar Next Wednesday the only thing you need is Internet access! interested check out the discription below or visit :…

Are you a Latina mother? If you are one and you are attending school this opportunity is for you!!! The Hispanic Scholarship Fund and Clorox is giving out six scholarships each worth 10,000 for Latina ,o,s in colleges here are the requirements:



Hispanic Scholarship Fund /Clorox Sueña Sin Límites Mothers Scholarships for Latina moms in college.

Six (6) awards - $10,000 each - for 2013-2014.

Deadline: Dec. 21!

Applicants must be -

- a Latina legally in the U.S.…

Are you interested in Public Policy,Public Administration or International Affairs?

the PPIA (Public Policy & International Junior Summer Institute is offering Fellowships to Juniors in college who are interest in the field. This program helps students achieve a Masters Degree or a joint degree.They have an alumni network that provides opportunites to connect with indivuals in the field of Public Policy. There are PPIA Junior Summer Institutes at: UC Berkeley, Michigan, Carnegie…

GE Foundation/LULAC Scholarship for minority students who are majoring in business or engineering AND will be sophomores in fall 2012.

$5,000 scholarship! 

Deadline: August 17!

Applicants must be:

• Minority student majoring in business or engineering and pursuing full-time studies leading to a…

I'll admit there's certain girls my age that I look up to. At the age of 20, so many of us are exploring life in different ways and making sure there's record on Facebook and Twitter of every step we take.…

FREE Webinar in English & Spanish: "On the Track to College" at 10:30a/EST Friday, June 29, for students and families with kids who want to go to college.

FREE & open to the public!

Register…

This past May, my older brother graduated from college and already secured a job as a high school math teacher. This week, two of my younger cousins are graduating from high school. In the Fall 2012 semester, my younger brother will be in eighth grade. As for me, I will be a junior in college. Needless to say, I'm feeling incredibly old.

It's cliche to say, but I feel like it was just yesterday when I didn't have a younger brother and my older brother and I were four- and…

Even though I have lived in El Paso for most of my life, my body has yet to grow accustomed to the scorching heat and arid air. The effects of the desert climate are exacerbated ten times over after  I come back from my comfortably humid little college town of Ithaca, New York and am forced to weather the 100 degree, Sun City weather. Being back compels me back into habits I have neglected to keep up. For instance, water intake. Up in Ithaca, which is surrounded by lakes and waterfalls, and…

Growing up, I was never aware of my family's financial struggles. I can honestly say I was never in want, but then again my parent's never allowed us to be dissatisfied. We weren't allowed to complain about eating leftovers, hand-me-down clothes or opting for the generic brand over our "pricey" favorites. For me, every American family lived this way. This was normal.

Looking back, I don't think I grew up disadvantaged or poor, but rather blessed. I don't remember times being hard.…

As I closed the dorm room door on parents in the summer of August 2011 I knew what I had done was irreversible. I was now completely alone in the big city of Austin, Texas. 

Those first weeks at The University of Texas at Austin were some of the hardest times of my life. I had never known anything but El Paso. The heat and humidity in Austin was unbearable for me. I became convinced that my hair would never be anything but a frizzy afro. Real Mexican…

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An interesting article written by Anne-Marie Nuñez and Elizabeth Murakami-Ramalho on improving educational standards of Latino students, encouraging students, and empowering them to become successful in their professions. Article heavily focuses on faculty involvement. Here's an excerpt:



While concerns about Latino educational access may not be of interest to everyone in this anti-immigrant climate, the positive economic…

Call for Papers for Special Session at the 2013 MLA Convention (Boston, Jan 3-6) Theorizing Indigenous Literatures in the Americas:



We seek papers that discuss the theoretical considerations of working with indigenous literatures in the Americas (North/South). What are salient analytical tools / methods / lenses for reading and researching indigenous texts? How does language (native or non-native) intervene…

I was cleaning my bookshelf this morning -- by cleaning I really mean moving the books around to make it look "less" cluttered. I know, I know, I am terrible, but over the years I have accumulated too many books to the point where I have forbidden myself from purchasing any unless I absolutely need them, or if they're available for the Kindle or Nook -- yes, I have both .... but I like the Kindle better.

While I was "cleaning" I stumbled across a forgotten copy of Lorna Dee…

I'm taking a class called Women's and Gender Studies Senior Seminar. It's going to be my last class for my WGS major and it's supposed to use our previous knowledge to prepare us for our future endeavors after college. They call this a capstone course. For this class I'm doing a research project on Latinas filmmakers and because I want to be a filmmaker one…

This semester got started pretty well. I have many things on my plate including the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Grad Internship at UT for undergrads. My mentor, Juan Portillo, and I met for the first time last Thursday to discuss our plans for my exploration of graduate school.

Juan is a Master's student in the Women's and Gender Studies program. He's…

Sometimes we are too busy to realize a beautiful gem has slipped past us! CHICAS! In case you missed it:



Dream of getting published? Latinitas is seeking…

This is going to be me this semester!

In the words of my best bud Diana, "We gon' tear it up in 2012. We gon' tear. it. up." Those are inspiring words and I'm really going to need the support…