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• Blandina Cardenas: president, University of Texas, Pan American

  - 2007-04-01

  Run down the resume of Dr. Blandina "Bambi" Cardenas, president of the University of Texas-Pan American, and you will come across a non-stop record of achievements in education and civil rights. "When I think about all of this, what is amazing to me is the staying power," she laughs...

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• At the crossroads: the Texas/Mexico border economy at Cameron County and Matamoros

  - 2006-06-01

  "There is no choice in whether the border region will grow or not. If we closed the border tomorrow--every bridge in South Texas all the way to El Paso and if we stopped migration from the North--we would still have 230 percent growth in 30 years. ... we need to...

  Tags: education, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, job, manufacturing, Mexico, Strategy, talent, Texas, training, University of Texas, workforce

• Executive Council Election Information 2006-2008 VOTE

  - 2006-04-01

  By virtue of offices already held, Dr. John D. Light will hold the office of Past President and Dr. Karen Nicholson will hold the office of President for the 2006-2008 Biennium. President-Elect Pamela Kramer (Ed.D. in Elementary Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Professor of Education, Department of Early Childhood &...

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• Texas Graduates Leave Their Hearts in Rio Grande Valley to Pursue Degrees.

  - 2004-02-17

  By Bonnie Pfister, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--McALLEN, Texas -- As a 1989 graduate of Weslaco High School bound for Harvard, Noe Hinojosa Jr. would have preferred to study particle physics. But like so many...

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• Texas House Delays Final Vote on College Tuition Bill.

  - 2003-04-30

  By George Kuempel, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 30--AUSTIN, Texas--The House spent several hours in a heated debate Tuesday over a bill to raise state college tuition, but a final vote was postponed after it appeared that opponents...

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• Texas Colleges Contemplate Cutbacks in 'Special-Item' Areas.

  - 2003-02-24

  By Linda K. Wertheimer, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--AUSTIN, Texas-The future is murky for a University of Texas observatory that draws 100,000 stargazers to a West Texas mountaintop each year. It's equally unclear what...

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• BEST LAWYERS UNDER 40 IN DALLAS, THE

  - 2002-05-01

  We rank the top attorneys in town according to a jury of their peers.No other profession is more maligned than that of an attorney. On one end of the spectrum, you've got your doctors and your rocket scientists. They get a lot of respect. Recently, firefighters have seen the...

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• No simple Americanizers: Three early Anglo researchers of Mexican-American education

  - 2001-01-01

  Anglo-Hispanic relations in the U.S. Southwest remain contested. The balance of influence, however, was set, at least for the last 150 years, by provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Since that momentous event, the U.S. "way of life" has been desired for, and by, most Mexican immigrants (DeSipio and...

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• Cogito Learning Media and the Charles A. Dana Center Partner To Develop in E-Learning Services for Advanced Placement

  - 2000-07-20

  Business Editors, Education Writers SAN FRANCISCO and AUSTIN, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--July 20, 2000 Cogito Learning Media, Inc., and the Charles A. Dana Center of The University of Texas have joined forces to develop and produce a series of comprehensive web-based Advanced Placement resources for students and teachers. The online...

  Tags: Associated Press, E-learning, education, FINANCE, media, partnership, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, teacher, Texas, University of Texas

• Breaking Thurgood Marshall's promise - declining minority enrollment in higher education

  - 1998-02-05

  Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal story of how, forty-seven years ago,...

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