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Mon., October 8, 2012 3:00am
An Indianapolis-based educational foundation is giving $600,000 to three Savannah higher education institutions. The Lumina Foundation is aiming to double the number of Latino students enrolling in and completing college in a four county area.
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Thu., May 24, 2012 9:00am
The Goizueta Foundation is providing a $5 million grant for Georgia Tech to encourage Hispanic K-12 students to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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Mon., August 1, 2011 1:20pm
The state’s largest university is experiencing significant growth in the numbers of first-year minority student enrollment. That growth is the increase in black and Hispanic freshmen about to begin classes at the University of Georgia. African-Americans will make up 9 percent of UGA’s 5,500 student incoming class this fall. And 5 percent of the school’s first-year students are Hispanic. Both represent all-time highs for UGA.