The study is intended to provide a status report of Hispanic participation in Arizona. The study will attempt to demonstrate how much progress has been made in Arizona during the 1990s and make some comparison with national trends. As a result of the data, it is further planned that some policy implications will emerge. The fellows will work this summer on examining the data, organizing it in graphic form, and describe and analyze it. By the start of the Fall semester, a first draft of the report should be complete.
Plans are to have it distributed by the end of the year.
Honors, Achievements and Awards Howard L. Simmons , professor of Higher Education and Postsecondary Education, was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humanities from Kings College in Pennsylvania at their May commencement. Carlos Nevarez , HBLI fellow, after national competition, was awarded a summer research fellowship from the Hispanic Research Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He will be on the UTSA campus, June 14-20 to gain knowledge about Latinos and drug abuse and have access to data sets on drugs and their influence on Hispanics. He will be responsible to produce a publishable manuscript on Latino focused on drug research, due no later than December. He will be conducting interviews of undocumented residents from June 1 through August 30.