The Latino community is the largest minority group on college campuses. But many challenges prevent the current Latino population from gaining more ground or enrolling additional students into colleges and universities. And as Virginia Public Radio’s Tommie McNeil reports, a roundtable discussion held in the Richmond area sought ideas and proposals to help change that.
Education Roundtable
Subscribe to our RSS Feed
From NPR News- Why Former Gitmo Chief Left In Protest May 24, 2013President Obama is once again calling for the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be shut down, even though new polls suggest most Americans want it to stay open. But the chorus of critics has gained one surprising member: former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor Morris Davis. Host Michel Martin talks with Davis about why he now feels the facility should be closed.
- Health Insurance At 'Good Prices' Coming To Calif. Exchange May 24, 2013It's the first disclosure of prices in the nation's most populous state for individual health insurance that complies with the Affordable Care Act, and the menu of affordable options surprised some consumer advocates and analysts who had been expecting premiums to be much higher.
- James Joyce Coin-troversy Reportedly Could Have Been Averted May 24, 2013Irish banking officials should have known there were problems with the controversial 10-euro coin commemorating James Joyce, according to Ireland's RTE News. The coin misquotes the author's Ulysses, and bears an image of Joyce that his estate did not approve.
- 2 Men Arrested After Pakistani Jet Is Diverted Over U.K. May 24, 2013Something happened aboard the flight from Lahore, Pakistan, to Manchester, England. Royal Air Force fighters were scrambled and the plane was ordered to land at an airport in Essex.
- British Soldier Hacked To Death Was 'Our Hero,' Family Says May 24, 2013As Lee Rigby's family struggles with grief, they're speaking about the young man's love of life. He was killed Wednesday. Witnesses heard — and recorded — the attackers saying that they were angry about the deaths of Muslims during the wars in Iran and Afghanistan.
- Why Former Gitmo Chief Left In Protest May 24, 2013
- From BBC News
- Wife expected soldier 'to be safe' May 24, 2013The wife of a soldier murdered in a London street says she expected her husband to be safe in the UK.
- Two held after plane alert over UK May 24, 2013Two men are arrested after RAF Typhoon jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a passenger plane from Pakistan within UK airspace.
- BBC abandons £100m digital project May 24, 2013The BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
- Bercow's McAlpine tweet libellous May 24, 2013Sally Bercow says she is "surprised and disappointed" after the High Court rules a tweet she published about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was libellous.
- Plane 'fire' closed Heathrow runway May 24, 2013British Airways cancels its short-haul flights to and from Heathrow after one of its planes makes an emergency landing.
- Wife expected soldier 'to be safe' May 24, 2013
