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ADDRESSING THE NEED TO STRENGTHEN LEADERSHIP AT HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are postsecondary institutions that receive federal designation recognizing their enrollment of 25% or more full-time Hispanic undergraduate students. Over the last two decades, they continue to be the fastest-growing post-secondary institutions in the nation.

TO ADVANCE RACIAL EQUITY, POLICY MAKERS MUST MOVE AWAY FROM “BLACK AND BROWN” DISCOURSE
A narrative of Black and Brown inequality often combines the numbers of the two groups in a way that rhetorically links their lived experiences together. If those numbers are disaggregated, one is likely to find at least one additional layer of inequality that exists between Black and Latinx groups.

'ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE' AND THE LATINO LEGACY OF SPIDER-MAN
As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American girl whose dad read her comics every night, I quickly became a fan and then scholar of Miles Morales, the Afro-Puerto Rican Spider-Man who first appeared in comic book form in 2011’s "Ultimate Fallout #4."
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