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Welcome to the Project MALES website

by vbsaenz on March 6, 2012

Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) is based within the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Our website serves as more than a web presence for the project. It also serves as a clearinghouse for emerging research and news on Latino males in higher education as well as a resource for researchers and practitioners looking to learn more about this important issue. You will also find many links to our partners and other programs that are engaged on issues related to males in education. We encourage you to explore our website and return often. We recently hosted our second UT Latino Male Symposium for over 200 education professionals from throughout the state.

If you would like to learn about Project MALES, we encourage you to visit our “About Us” page to learn more about our history and our Staff page to learn about our key staff and volunteers. You can also visit us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Thank you for your interest.

 

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New Policy Brief on Latino Males (Perspectivas)

by vbsaenz on May 8, 2012

 

A new policy brief on Latino males authored by Dr. Victor Saenz & Dr. Luis Ponjuan was released this spring as part of a new policy brief series called Perspectivas, Issues in Higher Education Policy and Practice. The new series is published through a collaboration between the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and the Center for Research and Policy in Education, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Victor and Luis are honored to have been asked to write the first policy brief in a series that we expect will have lasting impact in our field, and we thank Dr. Laura Rendon and Dr. Vijay Kanagala for their editorial guidance. The full brief can be downloaded on the AAHHE website HERE:

 

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Thank You! 2012 Latino Male Symposium

February 24, 2012

Thank you to all that attended the 2012 UT Latino Male Symposium on May 4th, 2012. We had an amazing turnout this year. Representatives from institutions across the state turned out for a day-long event that featured student and research panels, roundtable discussions, and a lunch keynote speech by Dr. Judith Loredo, Assistant Commissioner at [...]

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IHEP Policy Brief on Latino Males in Higher Education

December 6, 2011

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and the Pathways to College Network recently released a new policy brief focused on Latino males in higher education, co-authored by Project MALES’ own Dr. Victor Saenz & Dr. Luis Ponjuan. This is the first in a series of policy briefs that IHEP and Pathways will release in [...]

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Donate to Project MALES

August 29, 2011

We have recently added a new page to our website that details how to make a donation to Project MALES.  Click “HERE“ if you wish to go directly to the secure UT-Austin Giving page for Project MALES, or visit our donation page here for further instructions.

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Dr. Saenz Attends Panel Discussion Featured By The College Board on Capitol Hill

July 3, 2011

Dr. Saenz attended a panel discussion hosted by The College Board on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2011!  For the full article, please click here.

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Recent Features

May 5, 2011

Project MALES was recently featured in the May/June 2011 issue of The Alcade (click here), and it the Latino Male Symposium was recently featured in Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (click here).

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Project MALES featured on the Michael Eric Dyson Show!

April 6, 2011

Project MALES was recently featured on the Michael Eric Dyson show!  Please click here to read about it and and hear the audio clip.

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Project MALES Featured in DDCE 2010-11 Impact Report

March 17, 2011

Project MALES has been recently featured in the Division of Diversity & Community Engagement’s (DDCE) 2010-11 Impact Report. Turn to page 11 for more details!

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2011 AAHHE Conference in San Antonio, Texas

March 4, 2011

Project MALES presented at the 2011 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) conference in San Antonio, Texas on March 4, 2011.  The presentation discussed background research about the topic of Latino males in the education pipeline, preliminary findings, programming for the inter-generational mentorship model, as well as implications of how this research informs [...]

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