Graduate Program Announcement

In addition to CRC activities and programming announcements, research help and resource suggestions, we also intend to include items of interest to our students, such as the following:

The George Washington University: Bilingual Special Education annouces its Online Distance Program for Fall 2009**
The George Washington University’s bilingual special education *online distance program* is now accepting applications for the 18 credit hour graduate *Certificate *and 45 credit hour *M.A.* in Bilingual Special Education for the Fall 2009 semester.For more information: http://gsehd.gwu.edu/bilingual
Please contact Tara Courchaine at mailto:taratez@gwu.edu* or call (719) 660-7564.
**The program is eligible for FAFSA financial aid, and individuals who qualify can apply for funding through the TEACH grant.

Looking for up to date statistics on Chicana/os & Latina/o?

Check out the Pew Hispanic Center, http://pewhispanic.org/. which conducts surveys and compiles research and reports on changing Latino demographics in the United States. Some of the latest report titles include: "Through Boom and Bust: Minorities, Immigrants and Homeownership," http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=109, "Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: Most Diverse in U.S. History," http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=108, and "A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States," http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=107. Datasets and reports are available for demographics, election 08, economics, education, geographic, identity, immigration, labor, Latino public opinion, politics, and remittances. The latest nation, state and county population estimates are available via interactive maps,

It is one of seven projects supported by the Pew Research Center, http://pewresearch.org/, which "... is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues."

blogging and the CRC

The CRC would like to come up with a way to communicate with our users about our activities and services, give tips on research, announce events, and alert our users to issues that impact their studies and their lives. instead of publishing a newsletter each semester, we would like to use a blog or another web 2.0 technology to do this. So, as an experiment, I have set up this blog. However, if only I am able to post here, instead of all of the CRC staff, then, a blog will not be as useful as it might be. Any suggestions on other technologies to explore?