"WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency today announced plans to provide new research opportunities to faculty at member campuses of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
""This new program will expand minority participation in all aspects of the EPA's work,"" HACU President Antonio Flores said. ""This is a tremendous opportunity for faculty and also for our students, who will benefit from the enhanced teaching and research skills that participating faculty will bring back to their classrooms.""
Flores joined EPA Assistant Research and Development Administrator Norine Noonan in Washington, D.C., to sign an agreement establishing the EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program. ""EPA researchers who work with participating HACU faculty will benefit from the interaction,"" Noonan said, adding that ""the content of EPA's science will be enriched as a result of the collaboration.""
Noonan heads the EPA's Office of Research and Development, which will fund the work of 10 faculty members from HACU member Hispanic-Serving Institutions on EPA environmental science and technology research projects. The 10 faculty participants will be selected early next year to join EPA scientists at the agency's three national laboratories.
More than 200 colleges and universities have been federally designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions because their student enrollment is at least 25 percent Hispanic. HACU represents more than 260 HSIs and other campuses with large numbers of Hispanic students. Altogether, these campuses are home to more than two-thirds of all Hispanic higher education students.
""Increasing the science and technology skills of the nation's youngest and fastest-growing minority population is a long-term goal that will benefit all of us. The EPA's support of those campuses that are home to the largest concentrations of our Hispanic students with this important new program will go far to help us achieve this larger goal,"" Flores said.
The EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program will be housed at HACU national headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, and directed by Rene Gonzalez, HACU's Director of Program Collaboratives.
HACU and the EPA have been formal partners since 1997 in efforts to increase academic, employment, research and development opportunities for faculty and students in support of the White House Initiative on Excellence in Education for Hispanic Americans.
For more information about the EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program, contact HACU Director of Program Collaboratives Rene Gonzalez at (210) 576-3223. For more information about HACU, contact Janie Valenzuela, HACU Public Affairs at (210) 692-3805 ext. 3242."
| HACU President and CEO Antonio Flores and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Norine Noonan, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, formalize an agreement for the HACU/EPA Faculty Development Program. |
""This new program will expand minority participation in all aspects of the EPA's work,"" HACU President Antonio Flores said. ""This is a tremendous opportunity for faculty and also for our students, who will benefit from the enhanced teaching and research skills that participating faculty will bring back to their classrooms.""
Flores joined EPA Assistant Research and Development Administrator Norine Noonan in Washington, D.C., to sign an agreement establishing the EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program. ""EPA researchers who work with participating HACU faculty will benefit from the interaction,"" Noonan said, adding that ""the content of EPA's science will be enriched as a result of the collaboration.""
Noonan heads the EPA's Office of Research and Development, which will fund the work of 10 faculty members from HACU member Hispanic-Serving Institutions on EPA environmental science and technology research projects. The 10 faculty participants will be selected early next year to join EPA scientists at the agency's three national laboratories.
More than 200 colleges and universities have been federally designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions because their student enrollment is at least 25 percent Hispanic. HACU represents more than 260 HSIs and other campuses with large numbers of Hispanic students. Altogether, these campuses are home to more than two-thirds of all Hispanic higher education students.
""Increasing the science and technology skills of the nation's youngest and fastest-growing minority population is a long-term goal that will benefit all of us. The EPA's support of those campuses that are home to the largest concentrations of our Hispanic students with this important new program will go far to help us achieve this larger goal,"" Flores said.
The EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program will be housed at HACU national headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, and directed by Rene Gonzalez, HACU's Director of Program Collaboratives.
HACU and the EPA have been formal partners since 1997 in efforts to increase academic, employment, research and development opportunities for faculty and students in support of the White House Initiative on Excellence in Education for Hispanic Americans.
For more information about the EPA/HACU Faculty Development Program, contact HACU Director of Program Collaboratives Rene Gonzalez at (210) 576-3223. For more information about HACU, contact Janie Valenzuela, HACU Public Affairs at (210) 692-3805 ext. 3242."