At Virginia Tech

Offices on campus and committees dealing with issues relevant to our community.

List of student organizations

http://hokiespa.vt.edu/ssb/prod/hzsksorg.P_DispStuOrgs

Outside Virginia Tech

Websites and organizations that address hispanic/latino issues.

US Census

• Information regarding concentration of Hispanic population in the US, (http://www.census.gov)

College and University information

• Department of Education has a program for HIS,Title V (http://www.ed.gov/programs/idueshsi/definition.html)
• More than half of HSIs are in Texas, California and Puerto Rico, many along the US/Mexico border - total of 12 states and PR. The states include Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington.
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (http://www.hacu.net/)
• Excelencia in Education! (http://edexcelencia.org/)

Professional organizations

• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (http://www.sacnas.org/)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, SHPE (http://www.shpe.org)
• Hispanic Engineers Business Corporation, HEBC (http://www.ehebc.org)
• National Society of Hispanic MBAs, NSHMBA - (http://www.nshmba.org)
• Latin Business Association (http://www.lbausa.com/)
• Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (http://cahsi.fiu.edu/main.html)
• LiC: Latinas in Computing (http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/systers/lic)
• Pew Hispanic Center (http://pewhispanic.org/)

Virginia and National Information

• Creciendo Juntos Together (http://www.cj-network.org/)
  • Latinos in our area (http://www.cj-network.org/latinos_area.html)
• Virginia Latino Advisory Board, Goverment of VA (http://www.vlab.virginia.gov/)
• Famous Firsts by Hispanics (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933896.html)
• Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (http://jhh.sagepub.com/)
• Hispanic Heritage Foundation (http://www.hispanicheritage.org/)
• More Hispanic Students are Ready for College than in the past - Chronicle Article 2007 (http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=3204)
• Diverse Hispanic (http://www.diverseeducation.com/hispanichighereducation.asp)
• Hispanic Serving Institutions: Statistical Trends from 1990-1999 (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002051)