By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar Initiatives like the Intellectual Entrepreneurship experience at UT Austin help students capitalize on their passions via self-exploration, exposure to diverse disciplines, and graduate work The public dialogue surrounding whether a college education is worth the investment in an era of trillion-dollar student debt is pretty mainstream. There are education experts who [...]
Texas’ 10 Thousand Dollar College Degree
La Voz de Austin The Texas State University System is the state’s third major university system to announce the development of a bachelor’s degree that only costs $10,000 — a response to Gov. Rick Perry’s 2011 call for more affordable higher education offerings. Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College, an upper-division college in the [...]
Online lessons teach college-age women the consequences of getting pregnant while pursuing their degrees
LatinaLista — Most educators, parents and community leaders feel their job is done when preaching to teen girls the perils of getting pregnant while still in middle and high school. Yet, little thought is given to talking to young women at college. The assumption is that college-age women already know it. Unfortunately, the sad truth [...]
College programs that work helping Latino students achieve graduation success
LatinaLista — The challenges facing Latino students who want a 4-year degree are more than just being able to afford college tuition and books. There are a host of obstacles that can range from not receiving the proper instruction in high school to feelings of not belonging among a student community unfamiliar with Latinos. However, [...]
College prep fairs target Latino students for a Nuevo Futuro
LatinaLista — If it’s fall, it must be college fair time! The time when students and their parents are thinking about what mijo or mija is going to do after high school. The questions: Community college or 4-year university? In town or out of state? And the most important: How to pay for it? All [...]
Venezuelan-born Rafael Reif and the Road to MIT’s Presidency
By Angela Millan Epstein CTLatinoNews.com Rafael Reif speaks slowly with the clarity of an engineer’s mind and the matter of fact attitude of a person whose life and experiences have led him to hold one of the most important positions in the field of science and technology education in the world. Listening to the Venezuelan [...]
