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Professors 101: Juan Herrera builds on personal experiences to inspire students

“I really wanted to learn about my home country of Guatemala but I found that most of the classes that were on Latin America were either about Brazil or Mexico or the big countries,” said Juan Herrera. “Research became a way for me to find out more about myself. It was kind of like doing autobiography work.”

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Film Festival Honors Build Momentum for “Truly Texas Mexican”

Los Angeles author and film critic, Chon Noriega who is also the Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, says “The film is very soulful–the kind of story missing from all the cooking documentaries and series out there, except for the occasional Latino segment from Anthony Bourdain, RIP.”

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Inside the Issues

“Some voters need more help than others because they, frankly, have been left out on purpose, or by default, of the ballot box,” says Sonja Diaz.

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Latino voters take the spotlight as Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs approach

A day after the Nov. 3 election, the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute said Biden got 75% of the votes cast in Gwinnett County election precincts that had high concentrations of Latino residents — although county elections officials were still counting ballots from the election at that time (Also: Jackson Progress-Argus, Clayton News Daily, KESQ TV-3, and KMIZ-TV).

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Education

Fear and loathing as colleges face another season of red ink

“We’re fully anticipating that some of the smaller schools will not make it,” said Patricia Gandara, a research professor of education at UCLA. “Some of the liberal arts schools, especially, are struggling to stay afloat. It’s a really terrible problem.”

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