Awards synthesize our professional achievements in a symbolic way. In a strongly competitive culture like that of the United States, awards are an important encouragement, motivation, and honor bestowed for effort and a job well done. Some awards are losing prestige as they are devalued for diverse reasons: political leanings, loss of influence, undeserving award-winners, [...]

An interesting aspect of education, one that our teachers should pay special attention to in their classes, is communicating important human values that are being neglected and ignored in favor of an education designed exclusively as a tool to find employment in today’s market. While finding a job is important, it’s also necessary to teach [...]

It’s a well known fact that private enterprise has always played an important role in American society, a role that can be positive or negative for society; in the end its effect is determined by the human characteristics of the individuals that humanize the market and capitalism. Thus in American society and private enterprise, values [...]

One of the great challenges that we must address in this country is the economic gap that still separates Hispanics from the white community. Especially troubling is recent data concerning child poverty that situates Hispanic Americans among the most poverty stricken. While this is a problem nationwide, the situation is twice as significant in the [...]

One of Hispanics’ greatest cultural resources in the United States is their native language, Spanish, which brings together more than forty million people from all over the world. Whether we’re from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Cuba, or any other Spanish-speaking region, the Spanish language is the most powerful symbol of our [...]

If America’s more than 47 million Hispanics are the determining factor in many aspects of American life, it follows that their interests and worries will increasingly leave their mark on America’s political agenda. As recent studies demonstrate, Hispanics are committed to protecting the environment, changing wasteful consumer habits and contributing to the conservation of the [...]