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Happy Holidays - HACU will be closed
December 24 2008- Jan1, 2009.

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Other Conferences
April 20 – 22, 2009 - IAU 3rd Global Meeting of Associations of Universities Making Sense of the Emerging Global Higher Education Landscape. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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Press Releases and HACU News(Archives)

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Member Advisories (Archives)

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Employment Opportunities

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Announcements and Opportunities
Seeking recommendations for MSIs workshop
Seeking recommendations for speakers who can discuss the challenges to building conservation and ecology leadership at Hispanic Serving Institutions for the Building Conservation and Ecology Leadership at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) workshop. The workshop will take place at the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World, in Washington D.C., Wednesday, December 10th at 9a.m. Please send recommendations or self-nominations to Michael Foster at 212-769-5146 or mfoster@amnh.org.

The Georgetown University Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid are partnering to sponsor a 12-week Leadership program for young professionals and advanced students, who have outstanding academic records and have demonstrated strong leadership skills. Participants will work and study bilateral relations in Washington D.C. and Madrid. Click here for a copy of the brochure. For more information, please contact: Antonio Pastor Palomar, Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid by e-mail at antonio.pastor@urjc.es.

Grant Announcement - The NRC Nuclear Education Grant Program’s primary purpose is supporting and developing the educational infrastructure necessary to allow the nation to safely move its nuclear energy initiatives forward. The program promotes and strengthens teaching programs in nuclear safety, nuclear security, nuclear environmental protection, and other fields that the Commission determines to be critical to the NRC’s regulatory mission by enhancing curricula and increasing faculty teaching competencies at higher education institutions. The NRC anticipates having up to $4.7 million available for this announcement. The Funding Opportunity Number is HR-FN-1008-EDU3.Visit www.grants.gov

Grant Announcement - The FOA issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes on Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R24) applications from institutions that historically and/or currently serve students from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds that aim to increase their capacity to conduct drug abuse and addiction research. The applications should propose to foster the research career development of a diverse cadre of faculty, students and staff who are currently underrepresented in drug abuse research, and to enhance research infrastructure at the institution. More.

Southwest Title V/HSI Best Practices Conference - Call for presenters & topicsto share knowledge and best practices among HSI practitioners in three critical areas (1) project management, including evaluation, budget management, NCEs, APRs, managing CCRAA projects, etc. (2) sharing best practices within the activities themselves, (distance education; retention strategies; outreach programs; etc.)
(3) preparing better HSI grants, including Title V, USDA, NSF and others. The conference will be held March 5-7, 2009 San Jose City College, San Jose, CA. Send suggestions and/or proposals to David Trujillo, Northern New Mexico College, dtrujillo@nnmc.edu, 505-747-2116

Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship
Talented college graduates and midcareer professionals to teaching in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the STEM fields) are encouraged to apply. The application deadline for admission to the inaugural cohort is December 15, 2008. For additional information regarding the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship, please visit www.woodrow.org/indiana. Forquestions, pleasecontact Dana M. DiLullo at WWTeachingFellowships@woodrow.org or 609-452-7007, x141.

Hogg Foundation Grant Annoucementfor projects in Texas Application deadline January 15
Tenure-track assistant professors at Texas colleges and universities are invited to apply for mental health research grants. Eligible mental health-related academic areas include psychology, social work, human development, behavioral health, sociology, nursing, public health, law and public policy.The foundation is especially interested in mental health research that has implications for underserved communities or is related to the foundation’s current key areas of interest. Grant information available atwww.hogg.utexas.edu. Funding for each proposal is capped at $15,000. Applications must be submitted online by noon CST on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. Grants will be awarded through a formal competitive review process, and recipients will be notified by the end of February 2009.

Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Eurasia, Central Asia
Application deadline January 30
Host applications from U.S. universities are now being accepted for the 2009-10 Global UGRAD program. This program provides fellowships for 130 promising underrepresented undergraduate students from Eurasia and Central Asia for one academic year of full-time, non degree study in the United States in any academic field. The program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and administered by IREX. For more information, or to request an application, please contact Nathan Stopper at nstopper@irex.org

HITN seeking student volunteersin 22 cities
Seeking students to help prepare the Latino community for the February 17, 2009, transition to digital TV.Many Latinos who depend on free television service as their main source of news and information will not be ready for the transition unless action is taken now.Read More>>
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