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THE VOLUME 12, NO. 5, MAY 2003 VOF HISPANICOICE HIGHER EDUCATION IINSIDENSIDE THISTHIS ISSUE:ISSUE: HACU’sHACU’s CapitolCapitol ForumForum MessageMessage FromFrom TheThe PresidentPresident NEWSBRIEFS RINGSIDE FOR ¡ADELANTE! WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ■ Platinum table tickets to a May 20 ■ HACU member Santa Monica College VERVIEW fundraising luncheon in San Antonio, in California is hosting a national O Texas, for the ¡Adelante! U.S. Education conference May 8-9 on workforce IN THIS ISSUE Leadership Fund will come with ringside development co-sponsored by HACU Pg. 3 • Notes from Washington seats for a 2003 Miller Lite Texas Title Belt and the Employment and Training Pg. 4 • Message from the President Series event May 22 in San Antonio Administration of the U.S. Department Pg. 5 • Special Report:HACU featuring two-time world boxing champion of Labor. The conference, “Strategic Capitol Forum Jesse James Leija. The boxing event will be Partnerships for Excellence in Workforce Pg. 10 • Positions and Announcements televised live on HBO Latino. Oscar De La Development,” will bring together Hoya, a six-time world champion who is representatives from HACU member promoting the boxing event, will address colleges and universities, and community ABOUT THE COVER the fundraising luncheon for the national and government agencies and HACU’s 2003 National Capitol Forum Hispanic scholarship and leadership organizations. For more information, visit on Hispanic Higher Education program. ¡Adelante! was founded by www.smc.edu/workforcedevelopment/ featured a call for record new HACU in 1997 with ongoing support conference.htm. investments in the higher education from Miller Brewing Company, and needs of the nation’s youngest and became a separate organization in 1999. MINORITY MEDICINE largest ethnic population. A special For more information about the May 20 ■ Blue Cross and Blue Shield of report begins on Pg. 6. fundraising package, contact ¡Adelante! Florida awarded HACU member Barry Executive Director John Puder at University in Miami a $300,000 grant to MARK YOUR CALENDAR! (210) 692-1971 ([email protected]). fund the establishment of the Institute HACU’s 5th International Or visit www.adelantefund.org for Community Health and Minority Conference, Hispanics: Reencounter Medicine. Barry University’s School of and Vision – United by the Past, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Graduate Medical Sciences already Working in the Present, and Looking ■ Online registration is available at serves 80,000 Hispanics at its Families Towards the Future,July 27-29, www.hacu.net for HACU’s 5th R-US Health Center and more than Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico International Conference, Hispanics: 28,000 migrant farm workers and their Reencounter and Vision – United by the children at the Good News Care Center HACU’s 17th Annual Conference, Past, Working in the Present, and Looking and Open Door Health Clinic. Hispanic Higher Education Success: Towards the Future,July 27-29, in America’s Path to the Future, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. HACU’s NANOTECHNOLOGY October 18-21, Anaheim, California. international conferences have attracted ■ HACU member and associate members wide attention to global issues and trends University of Texas at Austin, University HOW TO CONTACT US in cross-border education, diversity, of Texas at Brownsville and University of HACU National Headquarters workforce development, public policy Texas-Pan American have established a 8415 Datapoint Drive, Suite 400 advances and cultural development. “Nano at the Border” consortium on nanotechnology. The goal is to help Texas San Antonio, Texas 78229 GROSSMONT PRESIDENT become a leader in this potential next Tel: (210) 692-3805 Fax: (210) 692-0823 HONORED revolution in science. Nanotechnology Web site: www.hacu.net ■ The California Community College enables materials and devices to be E-mail: [email protected] Council for Staff and Organizational fabricated that have new physical or HACU President: Antonio R. Flores, Ph.D. Development named Ted Martinez Jr., chemical properties as a result of their HACU Washington D.C. Office president of HACU member Grossmont orderly construction from pieces that are One Dupont Circle N.W., Suite 605 College, the recipient of the 2003 about a billionth of a meter in size. Washington, DC 20036 Outstanding President Award. “This honor from staff development professionals ADVANCE PROGRAM Tel: (202) 833-8361 Fax: (202) 833-8367 is especially gratifying because it is ■ The ADVANCE Program at HACU E-mail: [email protected] given by those upon whom we depend member New Mexico State University Vice President of Government Relations: to help us improve,” Martinez said. awarded $81,575 in grants to 13 Gumecindo Salas, Ph.D. “Staff development helps everyone do a tenured and tenure-track female faculty HACU National Internship Program better job, and the beneficiaries are always members of the university in the fields of One Dupont Circle N.W., Suite 605 our students.” science, technology, engineering and Washington, DC 20036 mathematics (STEM). The ADVANCE Tel: (202) 467-0893 Fax: (202) 496-9177 FORD BOARD program, funded with a five-year grant ■ Juliet Garcia, president of HACU from the National Science Foundation, E-mail: [email protected] member University of Texas at provides support for female faculty in HNIP Executive Director: May 2003 Brownsville, was elected to the Board of STEM fields to gain tenured and full William Rafael Gil Trustees of the Ford Foundation. Garcia is professorships, and to assume leadership To Advertise in The Voice, also Vice Chair of the Carnegie Foundation roles at the university. contact Cynthia Vela for the Advancement of Teaching. Most Tel: (210) 692-3805 Ext. 3242 recently, she completed a six-year term as Fax: (210) 692-0823 THE VOICE Chair of the Advisory Committee to E-mail: [email protected] Congress on Student Financial Assistance. 2 THE NOTES FROM WASHINGTON this challenge. VOF HISPANICOICE HIGHER EDUCATION HACU’S Removing the “50 The Voice of Hispanic Higher Education is published monthly percent” provision from by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, 8415 Datapoint Drive, Suite 400, San Antonio, Texas 78229. For the federal definition of editorial or advertising information, contact HACU’s Public Affairs AGENDA HSIs would erase an Office at (210) 692-3805. By Gumecindo Salas inequitable component of The Voice of Hispanic Higher Education reserves the right to edit all materials submitted for publication. We are not responsible for Vice President of Government Relations the Title V definition of returning any unsolicited materials such as photos, brochures, etc.We ACU’s 2003 National Capitol HSIs. In addition to requiring that at least also reserve the right to refuse publication of any unsolicited material. Forum on Hispanic Higher 25 percent of the full-time equivalent HEducation laid a solid foundation student enrollment be Hispanic, 50 HACU GOVERNING BOARD 2002-2003 for efforts now under way in the percent of those students also must fit Salme H. Steinberg, Chair Ricardo R. Fernández 108th Congress to win record new federal low-income definitions. This President President increases in federal funding for additional regulatory burden is Northeastern Illinois University Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York Hispanic higher education. not required of other Minority-Serving Miguel Palacios, Vice-Chair Already, proposals in support of Institutions, and should be eliminated. President Milton A. Gordon several components of HACU’s Senator George Allen of Virginia was Pima County Community President College District, California State Legislative Agenda for federal Fiscal applauded at the Capitol Forum for his Desert Vista Campus University-Fullerton Year (FY) 2004 and HACU’s Public introduction of S.196, which would target Policy Priorities for Reauthorization of $250 million in new National Science Alexander González, Secretary Tito Guerrero, III President President the Higher Education Act (HEA) are Foundation grants each year for the next California State University, Stephen F.Austin making their way to Congress. HACU’s five years to HSIs and other Minority- San Marcos State University agendas are posted at www.hacu.net. Serving Institutions. The bipartisan bill HACU will be calling on the leadership was co-sponsored by Senators Ted Silvia Zapico, Treasurer Sigfredo Maestras Campus Provost President of member and partner colleges and Stevens of Alaska, John McCain of Valencia Community College, Northern New Mexico universities to provide testimony, letters Arizona, Zell Miller of Georgia and Osceola Campus Community College and telephone calls in support of these Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. José A. Vicente, Past-Chair Antonio Perez measures in coming weeks. HACU will HACU also is enlisting the leadership President President continue to rely on the leadership of the of member colleges and universities in Miami-Dade Borough of Manhattan Community College, Community College, HACU Governing Board’s Government calling for passage of legislation to Inter American Campus City University of New York Relations Committee, which has proven eliminate barriers to a college education instrumental in relaying the importance for talented young immigrants who are Dr. Víctor A. Arredondo Alvarez Jose Jaime Rivera Rector President of HACU’s legislative agendas to Congress long-term U.S. residents. Universidad Veracruzana University of the Sacred Heart and the White House. The bipartisan, companion measures HACU continues to work