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Hispanic students comprised 12 percent of full-time college students (both undergraduate and graduate students) in 2007, up from 10 percent in 2006, according to U.S. Census Bureau tables released today. Hispanics comprise 15 percent of the nation’s total population.

HispanicAd.com and the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) are proud to announce the judges for the HispanicAd.com 2008 Media Planning Awards competition. The awards will be bestowed at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agency (AHAA) Semi Annual Conference March 31 – April 2, 2009 at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Monica Lozano, Senior VP, Publisher & CEO of La Opinión has been named to President Obama’s newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

President George W. Bush has appointed Alex López Negrete, president and CEO of Lopez Negrete Communications to serve on a commission to study and report on the establishment of a National Museum dedicated to American Latinos. The Museum would document more than 500 years of American Latino contributions to the United States and be home to thousands of artifacts, images and personal stories.

A year and a half after a lengthy, often rancorous debate over immigration reform filled the chambers of a stalemated Congress, the issue appears to have receded in importance among one of the groups most affected by it–Latinos. Only three-in-ten (31%) Latinos rate immigration as an “extremely important” issue facing the incoming Obama administration, placing it sixth on a list of seven policy priorities that respondents were asked to assess in a nationwide survey of 1,007 Latino adults conducted from December 3 through December 10, 2008, by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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