MN Latinos in Higher Education

How quickly time flies, que no?  Wow.  Even though we’re in the midst of finals and exams and grading and closing up programming for the semester, we’d like to slow down and take a moment to thank everyone for the great energy and support of the Network.     October’s Summit was exciting and fulfilling.  In November , the board of directors held it’s planning retreat and now in December we begin to put our plans into action.  Stay tuned!

Good luck everyone as we wind down the semester and we hope everyone gets some well-deserved down time during the year end!

Paz y justicia,

El Comité Ejecutiva (Raul, Frank, Lisa, Deb, Olivia y Santiago)

We are pleased report the success of our 2nd Educational Summit held October 10th and 11th at Hamline University.  Staff, faculty, administrators and students from MN and a group from South Dakota convened to network, attend workshops, vote on organizational priorities and elect new board members. What an exciting time!  We heard from our elected officials in the House and Senate about the state of affairs for higher education and began plans for regional work and a statewide agenda.  Finally, Dr. Michael Rodriguez presented a Tool Kit for creating a Latino-Supportive Campus.  Stay tuned for more information and  how to use this toolkit. It will be available on the website soon!

Welcome to our newly developed website of the Statewide Network of Latinos in Higher Education! We are so excited to offer this as a space for all of us to have easy access to much needed information; to serve as a vehicle to connect with each other and to be used in our planning and support of Latino success in higher education!

We invite you to read about how the organization began, check out the current processes in place to formally develop the organization and become involved—either regionally, through a caucus or on a committee! Take a look through the site, check out upcoming events and meetings on the calendar, job postings, funding and research opportunities and sign up on the Brown Pages website so we an increase the database of all the talent and skills in our community! Bienvenidos-estan en su casa!

We thank our Network sponsors,  The Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and MN State Colleges and Universities.