Hispanic News Flash

• September 2005 issue... (HispanicBusiness.com)
  The University of Miami School of Law offers a strong international business curriculum with particular focus on Latin America. Students have the opportunity to learn comparative law in Spanish and to study abroad in Spain.
• Area colleges reflect region's diversity (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  Officials at three area colleges say they cater to a diverse group of students reflective of the region's population. At Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana University Northwest in Gary and South Suburban College in South Holland, diversity is important, spokesmen there say.
• National Catholic Reporter (National Catholic Reporter)
  Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.
• CBS News facing diversity questions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  Ask Russ Mitchell whether his appointment as news anchor at CBS' "The Early Show" signals that the network is concerned about diversity, and his reply is blunt.
• Education Briefs: Employees at four Tulsa schools garner bonuses (Tulsa World)
  Employees at four Tulsa schools received surprise cash bonuses this week. The Foundation for Tulsa Schools presented $250 checks to every employee at Burroughs and Carnegie elementary schools, Carver Middle School and Booker T. Washington High School.
• Pharmacy’s new face: Asian, African — and female (Gazette.Net)
  BALTIMORE — The lobby of the beige brick building on Pine Street is alive with color: showy African gowns printed in gold, black, red and green vie for prominence with embroidered Mexican blouses and Brazilian soccer jerseys in blinding yellow.
• Allstate Corporate Attorneys Spark Interest in Legal Careers among Minority High School Students (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
  NORTHBROOK, Ill.----Many of today's youth learn about the legal profession by watching popular television shows centered on criminal law. Allstate is working with Street Law, Inc., a hands-on education program about law, democracy, and human rights, to broaden that perspective.
• Justices weigh race in schools (The Kentucky Post)
  WASHINGTON - Louisville Mayor Jerry E. Abramson is not sure whether it qualifies as irony or not.
• How Do You Feel? (Sierra Times)
  This weekend, a friendly argument offered a revelation of sorts. It also explained a whole lot about why people vote as they do, and why politicians lead as they do.
• Allstate Chief Diversity Officer Receives Top Honors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
  NORTHBROOK, Ill.----Anise D. Wiley-Little, assistant vice president and chief diversity officer for Allstate Insurance Company, was one of twelve business leaders recognized with a CareerFOCUS Eagle Award from The National Eagle Leadership Institute and CareerFOCUS Magazine at a gala on November 17 in Kansas City.
• National Catholic Reporter (National Catholic Reporter)
  Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.
• Verizon Foundation Awards $323,000 in Literacy, Domestic Violence Prevention and Technology Grants to 33 Greater Puget (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Award-winning actor James Earl Jones joined King County Executive Ron Sims today at Town Hall to help NPower Seattle kick off its newly created NPower Technology Service Corps. The collaborative project will connect students from King County's Digital Bridge Academy and the Technology Access Foundation with local nonprofit organizations that need help with their technology infrastructure.
• Verizon Foundation Awards $323,000 in Literacy, Domestic Violence Prevention and Technology Grants to 33 Greater Puget (Broadcast Newsroom)
  SEATTLE , Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning actor James Earl Jones joined King County Executive Ron Sims today at Town Hall to help NPower Seattle kick off its newly created NPower Technology Service Corps.
• A-State reports solid progress in student mix (Jonesboro Sun)
  JONESBORO -- Arkansas State University administrators said Tuesday that the university has made "significant advances" in diversity initiatives over the last few years.
• Faculty urged to work toward increasing graduate diversity (Stanford Report)
  The Faculty Senate heard a report on graduate student body diversity last week that urged Stanford's biggest schools and departments to look critically at their record of admitting women and underrepresented minorities over the past 20 years and what they can do to increase those numbers in the years ahead as part of the university's mission to train a broadly diverse graduate population to take

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