Think outside the box

Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.

testing students

You can't fatten a pig by weighing it. You can't make a kid smarter by testing it.

College is essentially a time of growth, of change

"College is essentially a time of growth, of change. The major part of that change takes place in you. If the college you go to is any good, it will hit you like a ton of brings.  It will lead you to question every conclusion you have ever reached; it will lead you to deny lots of assumptions and remake them; it will refuse to answer many of your questions, because you are asking the wrong things.  It will shake your strong beliefs and blow tons of cold air into all your warm hideouts; it will laugh at your emotions and cry at your humor.  It will be a though and cruel place only because it cares for you but seldom bothers to show it.  It will torture you into the best you think you can do and, by mocking the results, make you do better.  For perhaps the only times in your lives, you will know, existentially, that life of the is soul-zided. You will stretched till you squawk.  And if you are not -- transfer."  By Father Timothy Healy

beautiful autumn

Another Colorful Fall - Iowa State University 

camp follower

Sunflower - Iowa State University 

Lunch Time

Lunch Time - Squirrel on the Iowa State campus. 

The eight most common stereotypes about Latinos

By the year 2050 Latinos will constitute almost one fourth of the U.S. population (102.6 million).  How do you define a Latino and who is included in this group?  Latinos face many challenges including the fact that they are often labeled as a single group without consideration that they come from different countries in Latin America, each with a unique culture and language.  In my discussion I will go over the eight most common stereotypes about Latinos (based on a survey that we took in 2011), and provide data to prove incorrect the stereotypes/myth.

1.     “All Latinos are ‘illegal aliens’”

2.     “All Latinos are Mexican”

3.     “All Latinas get pregnant before they graduate high school”

4.     “All Latinos are part of a gang and are violent”

5.     “Latinos don’t want to speak English”

6.     “Most Latinos are uneducated; they don’t value education”

7.     “All Latinos are a source of cheap labor who work in outdoor jobs”

8.     “Latinos have strong family values; family comes first”