NYLARNet Past Events

2010

NYLARNet Presents at Somos El Futuro Conference on Workforce Development

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 17, 2010) -- NYLARNet Researcher Jackie Hayes presented findings on New York State workforce development resources directed toward Latinos on a panel entitled "En la Búsqueda de Trabajo: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Job Seekers in New York"...

Read the NYLARNet report on workforce development presented at the conference.

2009

NYLARNet Presents at 2009 Latino Upstate Summit

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (October 23, 2009) -- Representatives from the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet) attended the 2009 Latino Upstate Summit which took place on Friday, October 23 in Syracuse. The conference was hosted by the Spanish Action League and drew over 240 representatives from community organizations around the state...

NYLARNet Attends Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference, New London

NEW LONDON, C.T. (October 16-18, 2009) -- Representatives from the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet) attended the Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference in New London, CT; a three-day conference which drew more than 300 scholars, health and social-service providers, attorneys, educators, immigrants and government personnel...

NYLARNet Travels to Chicago for Siglo XXI: The State of Latino Studies

CHICAGO,I.L. (September 24-26, 2009) -- In Chicago, representatives from NYLARNet attended the third Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research to disseminate all NYLARNet's reports and publications. The conference examined the contemporary state of Latino Studies, its growth and ability to succeed in the American Academy...

2008

NYLARNet Launches Latino Political Barometer

ALBANY, N.Y. (November, 2008) -- NYLARNet contracted with Opinion Access, Inc., a private polling firm, to carry out a post-election survey of Latinos in six Northeastern states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. This survey is the first of NYLARNet’s Latino Political Barometer (LPB), a project established in January 2008 to gauge the political attitudes, values, and behavior of Latinos in the Northeast...

Labor, Migration, and Socioeconomic Status Colloquium

ALBANY, N.Y. (October 23, 2008) -- NYLARNet held a colloquium as part of its annual series to present three perspectives on the situation of Latinos in the Capital Region of New York State. Three presentations explored the motivation of Latinos to migrate upstate as well as their working and living experiences in the region...

NYLARNet Testifies Before State Assembly Committee on Higher Education

ALBANY, N.Y. (February 8, 2008) -- NYLARNet was represented before the New York State Assembly Committee on Higher Education, by Professors Felipe Pimentel, a sociologist at Hostos Community College-CUNY and Abbe Herzig, from the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Pimentel and Herzig offered testimony commenting on the preliminary report of the New York State Higher Education Commission on how to improve higher education in the state. ...

2007

Latino Health Issues Symposium

ALBANY, N.Y. (November 17, 2007) -- The symposium examined the health disparities picture for Latinos in New York State, describing health trends in the community, the general barriers to health care access faced by Latinos, and discussing strategies to effectively address Latino health issues and problems...

NYLARNet Colloquium: Puerto Ricans and the Making of the Voting Rights Act

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 25, 2007) -- NYLARNet hosted a talk by Juan Cartagena entitled, "Puerto Ricans and the Making of the Voting Rights Act" as part of a Colloquium Series in Milne Hall 200, University at Albany Downtown Campus. Juan Cartagena discussed the historical significance of Puerto Ricans in shaping the Voting Rights Act (VRA), as well as the events leading up to the recent reauthorization of the VRA in July, 2006...

2006

Latino Immigration Policy Conference

ALBANY, N.Y. (November 3, 2006) --This one-day conference brought together specialists on labor history, immigration history, immigration policy, and immigrant rights to explore the history, context, issues, and policy alternatives concerning Latino immigrants to the United States and more specifically the state of New York...

Read the papers presented at the Conference in the NYLARNet book entitled Latino Immigration Policy: Context, Issues, Alternatives.

Second Year Projects Presented at Somos

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 29, 2006) -- NYLARNet researchers presented
the findings of some of the research projects sponsored by the consortium at the 19th Somos el Futuro conference held in Albany,
New York. Dr. Héctor Cordero Guzmán from Baruch College, CUNY, spoke about Latino entrepreneurship in New York; Dr. Victoria Santiago, a health policy researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, presented findings on asthma incidence among Latinos in the state. Dr. José E. Cruz
reported the findings of a poll monitoring project conducted during the 2005 mayoral election in New York City.

Housing Conference

ALBANY, N.Y. (February 14, 2006) -- On February 14, 2006, the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force in collaboration with Centro Cívico Hispanoamericano from Albany, New York, hosted a mini-conference at the Albany Institute of History and Art on the state of housing for Hispanics in the Albany capital district...

Read the NYLARNet housing report presented at the conference.

2005

NYLARNet Presents at Somos El Futuro

ALBANY, N.Y. (November 12, 2005) --NYLARNet Director, Dr. José E. Cruz, presented an analysis of the 2005 New York City mayoral election at the Somos el Futuro Winter Conference held at El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico...

First Year Projects Conference

ALBANY, N.Y. (October 14, 2005) -- NYLARNet researchers presented the findings of their research on education, housing, socioeconomic status, and political participation of Latinos
in the 2004 election before an audience that included academics, professionals, students, and community activists. The conference included a preliminary demographic analysis of the Colombian population of New York City as well as an introduction to the New York Latino Research Clearinghouse...

2004

Introducing NYLARNet: Inaugural Event

ALBANY, N.Y. (Fall 2004) -- The NYLARNet inaugural event was held by CELAC and the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies (LACS) at the University at Albany. At this event Assemblyman Rivera was welcomed by Interim President, John Ryan; Joan Wick-Pelletier, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Edna Acosta-Belén, NYLARNet's Coordinator and CELAC Director; and other members of the University and local communities...