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, [...]

Los premios sintetizan de una forma simbólica los logros que conseguimos en el ámbito profesional. En una cultura como la estadounidense, fuertemente competitiva, los premios son un aliciente importante, una motivación y, sobre todo, una recompensa honorífica por el esfuerzo y el trabajo bien hechos. Algunos premios van perdiendo prestigio a medida que se devalúan [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The successful integration of Hispanic immigrants into American society is a crucial challenge for the nation, because future prosperity, as well as employment and educational opportunities for millions of people, depend on it. So it follows that programs and initiatives supporting immigrants’ education from the ground up are very important. One such program is found in [...]

Education is a field in which politics and private initiatives can contribute substantially to the improvement of our country as a whole as well as the progress of individual citizens. Specifically, the education of Hispanics presents stimulating challenges that must be faced with courage and innovation to build a better future for our country. One such [...]