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May '07 Education Briefs

Charles Calleros earns a prestigious legal placement

UA COLLEGE RANKED AMONG NATION'S BEST

The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of Arizona was recently honored by DesignIntelligence magazine with impressive awards for 2007.

Out of more than 120 accredited design schools in the country, the College's School of Landscape Architecture was ranked as having the number one graduate program in the western region. The School of Architecture was rated sixth in the western region and 16th nationally.

DesignIntelligence is an annual publication released by the Design Futures Council, and it researches and ranks accredited U.S. schools that offer degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and industrial design.



CALLEROS EARNS PRESTIGIOUS LEGAL PLACEMENT

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law professor Charles Calleros was one of three ASU professors elected to the American Law Institute.

Calleros, along with Rebecca Tsosie and James Weinstein, were named to the prestigious Philadelphia-based international legal association dedicated to improving the administration of justice.

Calleros joined the faculty in 1981, and has conducted research about the intersection of race and gender discrimination and free speech, issues regarding legal education and international comparative contract law. He is the author of a leading textbook Legal Method and Writing.



NEW ASU DEPARTMENT PREPS STUDENTS FOR FUTURE TRENDS

Arizona State University recently expanded and renamed the Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department, which focuses on U.S. and Mexican regional immigration policy and economy, media literature and arts, and transborder community development and health.

The transformed department provides students with a value-added environment combining classroom instruction, field research and other experiences in a rigorous program.

The department, previously named Chicana and Chicano Studies, was established more than a decade ago as an interdisciplinary academic field to study the history and current circumstances of Mexican Americans in this country.

Now, under its new name, the department will maintain a primary focus on Mexican-origin populations and the Mexico-U.S. border region, and offer opportunities for students to understand how Latinos are changing and will change the face of the United States.



PROGRAM GEARED TOWARD SPANISH SPEAKERS

To address the need for Spanish-speaking social workers, the ASU School of Social Work's new Latino Cultural Competency Graduate Certificate was created to improve service delivery to Latino communities and clients, while expanding the employment potential of those who earn the certificate.

According to the national study Assuring the Sufficiency of a Frontline Workforce, 77 percent of licensed social workers in the United States serve at least some Hispanic or Latino clients, and just four percent of the licensed social workers were Hispanic or Latino.

In addition to courses on Latino populations of the Southwest, diversity, borderlands issues, financial and community asset building, and oppression, the certificate requires 480 hours of field experience with Latino clients.