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Ortegon, Ricardo Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This case study examined the trials and tribulations a predominantly Mexican-American community in South Texas went through to obtain higher education opportunities for its residents. This study focuses on the "LULAC v. Richards" lawsuit and the South Texas Border Initiative. In 1987, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Groups, Access to Education, Mexican Americans
Smith, Susan – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
Before Heman Sweatt, an African-American from Houston, won his lawsuit to attend the University of Texas (UT) School of Law, Carlos Cadena, a Mexican-American from San Antonio, was among its brightest students. Cadena graduated summa cum laude from the law school in 1940, a decade before Sweatt's lawsuit forced UT to open its graduate and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, State Legislation, Mexican American Education
IDRA Newsletter, 1994
This newsletter contains six articles all related to the theme of education for recent legal and illegal immigrants. In "Golden Lord with Us from the Main Forest: Some Thoughts on the Education of Recent Immigrants," Aurelio M. Montemayor reflects on his experiences growing up in a bilingual, bicultural extended family of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
de los Santos, Alfredo G., Jr; And Others – Aztlan--International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 1983
Presents available but incompatible national, state, and institutional data regarding patterns and trends of enrollment/access, retention/attrition, and achievement/completion of Chicano students in community colleges and universities in Texas and California. Includes policy recommendations regarding the collection, analysis, and dissemination of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Research
IDRA Newsletter, 1996
This newsletter includes five articles on immigrant education that focus on successful school programs and educational policy issues. In "Immigrant Education from the Administrators' Perspective" (Pam McCollum, Juanita Garcia), three principals of south Texas secondary schools with successful immigrant programs discuss their views on the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, College School Cooperation, Economic Impact
de los Santos, Alfredo G., Jr.; And Others – 1980
To ascertain enrollment/access, retention/attrition and completion/achievement rates for Hispanic and non-Hispanic male and female students enrolled in institutions of higher education, previously-collected data available at national, state and institutional levels were compared. Data from two universities and two community colleges in each of two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College Graduates, College Students