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Jose Marti Child Development Center is a bilingual Spanish and English preschool at El Centro de la Raza of Seattle on Beacon Hill. El Centro, which offers support services to Latino families, was recently named winner of the 2008 National Council of La Raza/Annie E. Casey Foundation Family Strengthening Award for the positive impact the Jose Marti center has had on Latino families. Children from all backgrounds attend the center, she said, and some come in with little knowledge of English or Spanish.
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Computers rule the workplace. Yet numbers have fallen off of students pursuing a career in information technology, and as a result, businesses are noticing a shortage of skilled workers in the field, according to a recent article in USA Today.
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Four Latino students with few economic resources but brilliant academic performances received the opportunity of a lifetime in the form of $100,000 scholarships to begin their university studies. Each of the four young people will receive an annual disbursement of $25,000 over four years through the RMHC/HACER Scholarship Program, an initiative of Global Ronald McDonald House Charities, which is supported by McDonald's Corporation.
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In part one of our series providing success tips, three experts had complementary takes on the strong benefits of constantly improving and expanding your skill set. In part two, our expert panel offers views on how to combat burnout and jump up to the next career plateau. Their comments primarily addressed mid-career professionals, who can find themselves hitting a wall, possibly due to stress, frustration, or simply due to treading water in the same position for too long.
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Honk if you love Hispanics? A license plate that touts "Hispanics Discovered Florida" may soon join the 109 specialty tags drivers in that state can choose from. The idea to celebrate the contributions of Hispanics came from National Hispanic Corporate Achievers, a group that sponsors minority job fairs. The plate would become a fundraising tool to support job and mentorship programs.
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The Fresno Valley needs more Asian, black and Hispanic doctors -- and the University of California is trying to "grow" them in three Fresno County high schools. UC runs a Doctors Academy at Sunnyside, Selma and Caruthers high schools -- which have diverse student bodies -- to give academic help, counseling and mentoring opportunities to students interested in medicine. The goal is to help some of them become doctors who then will work in the Valley -- helping solve the region's doctor shortage.
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Duke's Fuqua School of Business is in the midst of planning a massive gathering of students to sign a document that binds them to a promise that they won't cheat. The move comes more than a year after the business school came under a national spotlight in April 2007 when students were found to have cheated on a take-home exam.
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Recent college graduates tend to grab many of the employment-related headlines, as reporters and columnists seek to help them on the path to their first full-time jobs. But what about the vast majority of the workforce? The journeyman professionals and mid-level executives who are discovering some challenges mid-career? Just because they are road-tested doesn't mean they have all the answers. Fortunately, taking a cue from those recent graduates, experts agree that there's a solution that can help mitigate mid-career curveballs -- continuing self improvement.
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As public school officials grapple with crowded classrooms, high dropout rates, teacher shortages, and low test scores, a privately funded program is aiming to improve education by bringing best business practices into urban school districts. The concept is the brainchild of Eli Broad, a Los Angeles-based developer and philanthropist who sponsors the Broad Residency in Urban Education. The program trains former investment bankers, business school grads, and other professionals to utilize their best business practices in scholastic settings.
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Massachusetts remains the "gold standard" for mining economic growth from technology and science while California is losing its luster, according to a study released Thursday. The report by the Milken Institute has ranked Massachusetts as the United States' top technology incubator all three times that it has been compiled since 2002.
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Wachovia Bank and the USC Moore School of Business join together to host the second annual summer program, the Wachovia Business at Moore, June 21-27. Thirty high-achieving high school minority seniors from the Carolinas and Georgia are invited to campus for one week in the summer. The program exposes students to the wide variety of careers and opportunities that are available in business.
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The Hispanic Business 2008 Woman of the Year Award Gala took place in Phoenix last month in a whirl of copper and amethyst and hope and celebration. Dr. Sandra Hernandez, CEO of the non-profit San Francisco Foundation, received the award from Hispanic Business Publisher and founder Jesus Chavarria in front of an enthusiastic crowd of about 500 supporters at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa. The audience came from across the nation to attend the prestigious gala.
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Latinos drop out of high school at higher rates than Anglos. Fewer go on to college, and fewer still earn college degrees. Educators spent three days in Albuquerque for a policy summit on Latino higher education issues hosted by the University of New Mexico.
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The School of Business at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami is inviting owners of minority and women-owned businesses to take part in free training workshops designed to sharpen their business skills and broaden their knowledge.
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By awarding a whopping 82,000 college scholarships worth more than $221 million, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund may be breaking all records for nonprofit success. Founded in 1975 to boost college education among U.S. Hispanics, the fund has changed the lives of tens of thousands of Hispanic students. As the nation's preeminent organization supporting Hispanic higher education, and one of Hispanic Business magazine's Top 25 nonprofits, the fund reportedly is a model of efficiency and results.
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