Tag: Puerto Rico

Opinion

I Have Two Last Names – Here is Why They Both Matter

“I have two last names,” that is the very first thing I say, since I moved to the States, every time someone asks for my surname. I grew up in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Caribbean, with a unique mix of cultural antecedents and the use of two surnames as the tradition dictates. Therefore, for me, my “two last names” were one of the most common things in the world, until I got to graduate school.

December 7, 2020

Latest News

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Nichole Margarita Garcia

Garcia has found a way to do what so many scholars find difficult: to combine the personal with the theoretical, bringing her lived experiences to her scholarship, and, in doing so, inspiring a generation of younger scholars to do the same.

January 27, 2020

Latinx

Puerto Rico’s Higher Ed Institutions Show Resilience After 2017 Hurricanes

In September 2017, hurricanes Irma and Maria blasted through Puerto Rico and wrecked Inter American University’s campus in Arecibo and left many of its students displaced. Following the storms, student enrollment tumbled.

October 1, 2019

Opinion

‘Go Back to Your Country’ A Direct Threat to US Higher Education

U.S. academic institutions need to fight messages of hate and bigotry, and engage in an open conversation across their communities about racism and xenophobia that seem to be escalating in certain circles of the American society.

August 20, 2019

News Roundup

CUNY Students Train for Puerto Rico Post-Maria Rebuilding

In preparation for traveling to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to help with rebuilding efforts, student volunteers across the City University of New York system are invited to attend training sessions and interviews. CUNY is partnering with the New York Stands with Puerto Rico Recovery and Rebuilding Initiative, which is planning four deployments this summer. The first […]

May 28, 2019

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Ponce Health Sciences University to Expand Enrollment, Build New Campus

A recent conditional authorization to increase its class size from 90 to 150 students will make Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) the most attended medical school in Puerto Rico and one of the largest private medical schools in the United States.

March 8, 2019

Opinion

Genocide to Exodus: Why the Average Joe Should Care About Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico and the ongoing colonization of the island is nothing new. 1898 marks the official year in which the genocide of the Puerto Rican people became a legal act of the United States. Fast forward to today, we are in the same situation.

July 6, 2018

Native Americans

As American as Apple Pie

America isn’t divided by pundits and peddlers. It isn’t divided by vacuous political labels that tell us little about people’s commitment to mutual progress. Our country is divided because promoting the politics of exclusion is as American as apple pie.

June 21, 2018

Opinion

Academia’s Investment in Diversity Can Enhance Disaster Science

A series of devastating natural disasters in 2017 brought attention to the fact that extreme weather events disproportionately affect underserved communities. Pre-existing vulnerabilities in communities ravaged by Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma were amplified following these events. Yet, our understanding of the health and societal impacts of natural disasters remains underdeveloped.

January 17, 2018

Opinion

Becoming Latino: Why Our Safe Spaces Matter

Growing up in the Bronx, I was accustomed to identifying as Puerto Rican. I was surrounded by communities of color and went to school where the student body was predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Black.

January 17, 2018

Students

Students from Puerto Rico Can Get Free Semester at Cornell

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University is offering a free semester of study for up to 58 students from Puerto Rico’s main public university system. The University of Puerto Rico is operating at partial strength as the island recovers from Hurricane Maria. Cornell President Martha Pollack says the offer of free tuition, room and board this […]

October 31, 2017

Students

Brown University Enrolls Students from Puerto Rico Tuition Free

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University is enrolling up to 50 students from the University of Puerto Rico tuition free following the destruction of Hurricane Maria. The Ivy League school in Providence will help the students find housing, as many still have no power or running water at their homes in Puerto Rico. Brown has already […]

October 25, 2017