Scholars in rhetoric and composition have questioned to what extent the field can be decolonial because of the gatekeeping role that writing plays in the university. This article examines the decolonial potential of implementing multilingual practices in first-year composition (fyc), enacting what Walter Mignolo calls "epistemic…

Discusses the problem of recruitment of Spanish-speaking Americans to the library profession from an historical perspective; offers reasons for recruiting failures; and notes the roles of the individual librarian, the library school, federal government, and library associations in solving problems. Twenty-one references are cited. (EJS)

Although in recent years federal, state and local initiatives have been directed toward improving the education of Hispanic children, no significant impacts have as yet been made. The major weakness may be that strategies are still being designed against the characteristics of the larger society and not against the particular minority group.…

This volume is a collection of reports presented at a 1976 meeting held on the issue of Spanish American professional representation in the mental health field in the United States. Paper topics include: (1) Hispanics in psychiatry; (2) the current status of Hispanic social workers; (3) Hispanic psychiatric nursing personnel in the U.S.; (4) the…

Report focuses on the problems which Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and to a lesser degree, Cubans face in relating to higher education. (Author/SB)

Author recounted his feelings as he became educated and felt the growing distance between himself, a budding academic, and his nonacademic parents. (RK)

The Minority Biomedical Support Program provides grant money to educational institutions so they can better encourage and train their students to pursue successful careers in biomedical research. (NQ)

The main purpose of this survey was to gain current information on the representation of minority students within particular fields of study, a level of detail for which only limited information has been available. The survey requested enrollment information within 21 discipline areas for the total graduate population for each institution as well…

Hostos Community College offers bilingual health science education in South Bronx, New York. (PG)

This testimony, by the Director, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, University of California, Los Angeles, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is stated to place special emphasis on possible explanations for recent changes in earlier trends in minority enrollments. (Author/JM)

Offers a description of 5 Southwestern institutions serving American Indian and Chicano students; Tlatelolco Field Study Center, Casa de la Raza, Farmworkers Community School, Colegio Jacinto Trevino and Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University (DQU). (PG)

Compared in this paper, by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, are the enrollment patterns of and degrees earned by Blacks, Hispanics, and women in Pennsylvania colleges. Findings indicate that Blacks and females are underrepresented in the greatest number of types of institutions. (Author/EB)

Sources and type of data concerning minority groups and women are listed in an effort to assist employers and institutions of higher education. Excerpts and statistics from various sources are presented. Reproduced from best available copy. (MJM)