According to a recently released study,”African American and Latino Enrollment Trends among Medicine, Law, Business, and Public Affairs Graduate Programs,”few Latino and African American students are enrolling in medicine, law, business, and public affairs graduate programs. This is due in part to a low number of high school graduates among these ethnic groups and the bachelor’s degree entry requirement of the programs. Affirmative action and law suits related to affirmative action have also been contributors, according to the report.

For more than 30 years, students have been urging the administration to bring Latino studies to Princeton University.“The university has had the opportunity since the ’70s to begin to increase the number of Latino faculty and to build Latino studies and they just haven’t,” says Dr. Raul A. Ramos, assistant professor of history at the University of Houston and 1989 Princeton graduate. “There is a huge student demand and it’s a demand that has been there a long time.”

The executive director of the iSucceed Virtual High School in Idaho has spent the past two months stumping in juvenile correctional facilities, cities with significant Hispanic populations and community programs aimed at getting kids off the streets.

The virtual high school will go online next fall after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.

College graduates earn much more than those without a college education, and college graduates are more prevalent in metro than nonmetro areas, which contributes to higher earning levels in metro locales. Recent data from the Current Population Survey show that the metro advantage in college completion rates is growing over time. College completion rates rose across all major racial and ethnic groups in both metro and nonmetro areas between 1996 and 2006. By 2006, high school completion rates for most racial and ethnic groups were 80% or more in nonmetro areas and above 86% in metro areas. However, high school completion rates for Hispanics remained far lower than for other groups.

Redondo Beach, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2008 -- An increasing number of colleges and universities are reaching out to successful Latino entrepreneurs and keynote speakers as the choice for their commencement speeches in 2008. Hispanic speakers are in high demand as their experience appeals to graduation audiences from a fresh, previously unheard perspective.

"While we have seen some interest in the past, in 2008 the link between education and success has aroused a greater interest for Latinos and other minorities to bring their message and vision of hope and opportunity to commencement ceremonies around the U.S.," said Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, President of the Latino Speakers Bureau and long time NSHP member.

In Raleigh, NC, the Hispanic population is rapidly increasing. At the same pace, there seems to be a increase in high school dropouts. In Wake County, 17 percent of high school dropouts are Hispanic, but a new English language boot camp aims to reverse the trend.

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has announced the expansion of it's Spanish language resources. Resources are now available at www.eac.gov. The EAC home page now includes an En Español section which provides information about registering to vote, the Help America Vote Act, and the EAC's Language Accessibility Program. The section also includes a Spanish Glossary of Election Terminology, a voter resources center, and resources for the military and overseas voters.

New released data from the 2007 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which is conducted in February, March and April at about 100,000 addresses nationwide:

* Adults with advanced degrees earn four times more (average $82,320) than those with less than a high school diploma (average $20,873).

Controversial study points out racial disparity in the Alexandria, VA city's schools; administrators object.

When Leslie Auceda was in the sixth grade, her mother arrived at George Washington Middle School for a parent-teacher conference ready to learn about the progress her daughter was making in school. But she did not speak English, so she waited; after an hour and a half of waiting, Leslie’s mother surmised that the teachers were giving preference to the English-speaking parents. So she gave up and walked out — never to return to another parent-teacher conference.

As Leslie moved toward graduation, she said, she had a growing suspicion that she was receiving different treatment than her white classmates.