This report by MyEdu.com highlights the non-linear path taken by many college students today. A lack of student support, overburdened administrators, and poor academic advising at many universities leave many new students feeling lost and on their own. From a Latino perspective, this non-traditional path, before and during college, is not new. Most Latino college…
Awesome video via my good friend Patti Fletcher who works for SAP. The topic – Inclusion and Design Thinking. Excellent points about inclusion, and how it ultimately impacts an organization’s product offerings. My takeaway: your organization’s workforce must reflect your customer base. Great stuff. Thanks Patti!
Organizations tend to create expectations based on their culture. In advising organizations over the last year, I’ve suggested that the biggest challenge in understanding cultural differences entails understanding their own. I’d wager that most organizations lack a clear grasp of their culture. This lack of understanding can create all sorts of talent management difficulties as…
Royan Lee at The Spicey Learner starts off the new year with a short but terrific message about equity. Re-posted here: Equity is about voice. It’s not about Christmas Trees or Kwanzaa. It’s not about posters with a black girl standing next to a redhead standing next to an ethically ambiguous is-he-Spanish-is-he-Asian-is-he-Middle-Eastern boy. It’s not…
Like Frank Sinatra once said, “it was a very good year.” The last year was filled with change: new city, friends, lessons, experiences, knowledge, partnerships, collaborations, and challenges. In all the good certainly outweighed the bad. Thank you for visiting in 2011 and all the best in 2012. Miguel
If you’ve not yet read The Tipping Point (non-affiliate link), you should. It’s a book about change. Malcom Gladwell offers a different approach about comprehending change, and why it seems to occur as quickly as it does. One premise of his book is that change occurs all at once, and the smallest shift, can be…
I’ve been trying to get ahead on some projects this week in anticipation of the 2011 LATISM Conference next week in Chicago. As is the norm when I get too busy, you get a menudo of links. Enjoy! Marginal Revolution weighs in on why college students should be very careful about the majors they pick…
Hispanic Heritage month is an appropriate time to come together and contemplate where Latinos stand as a community – to take stock. It’s also an opportunity. We must look to ourselves: to come together, to reexamine, and lead on what needs to be changed within our community. Many look toward organizations, government, and others to…
As is customary in my blog (or in the kitchen!), when you have leftovers , you need to make a bit of stew – or menudo! So many interesting topics and so little time. Please take a look at some of these very insightful articles/posts. It will be worth your time. Enjoy the sopa! Excelencia…
I wanted to add some thoughts to my last post regarding the recent PEW Hispanic Research report. As noted, some of the positive trends outlined in the report include: Latino college enrollment surged 24% from 2009 to 2010 increasing to 12.2 million Latinos enrolled in college as of October 2010. The percentage of Latinos completing…
