Browsing: Daniel Cervera

Reading about Daniel’s Cervera’s proposal to the Baylor Senate made me think back to all the advocacy and adverse actions that we Chicanos had to embrace in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s to force changes in the educational system in America so that Cervera and his family could enjoy a good education.

The dean for student development defended on Wednesday the department of multicultural affairs’ decision to sponsor the “Hispanic Civil Rights Forum,” a Sept. 21 event that has become the object of criticism in a recently introduced Student Senate bill.

Student Senate held a meeting Thursday night in 403 Cashion Academic Center in which members voted to postpone voting on a bill that has caused controversy since its introduced.

Student senate passed 12 bills, including a controversial bill that would reallocate Student Senate’s diversity committee into its community affairs and public relations committees, during its last meeting of the semester.

Veterans attending Baylor will no longer receive as much financial aid from the Post 9/11 GI Bill as they used to, effective Aug. 1. In December 2010, Congress passed the Post 9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, an amendment to the original GI Bill, which has been a source of financial aid for veterans attending college since 1944.