SiS Newsletter - January 2010
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Recent News January, 2010
• Bill for fy 2010 will favour Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
President Obama signed on December 16 the omnibus spending bill sent to him by the United States Congress for FY 2010 appropriations. Read more...
• Spanish instruction continues growing.
According to a recent survey from the Center for Applied Linguistics entitled “Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools”, Spanish language instruction in American schools has grown well above other languages. This study does not cover college language programs. Read more...
• New guidelines of the spanish
The previous edition of this work dates from 1931. In these 80 years Spanish language has changed enough and the 4000 pages of the book bear this out. Read more...
SiS Student Ambassadors
• Kenneth Negy, Student Ambassador at the University of Central Florida.
SiS on the road
• Study in Spain will be traveling throughout the US again this academic year.
Amigos del español
• Robert Redford
Institution Profile
• Universidad Carlos III
Interview Lounge
• Benjamin Smith
Amigos del español
Sofia Vergara
Who was Griselda Blanco? For many years, this woman was only the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ two of the nicknames that the few people who knew her were using to identify her.
Sofía Coppola
A teenager and a rock star fall in love and get married in Director Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama, ‘Priscilla’. Literature has even found its way into her on-screen work.
Xolo Maridueña
The new DC action movie, 'Blue Beetle', is the first to feature a Latino superhero as the protagonist. The film tells the story of Jaime Reyes, a recent university graduate, who returns home to Ciudad Palmera when he comes into contact with a Beetle
