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Posted by r0rt1z Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments People en Español names Paulina Rubio ‘Star Of The Year’

    Mexican pop diva Paulina Rubio was noted as People en Español’s “Star of the Year.” 

    The outspoken Latin beauty launched a nationwide tour, wrote and produced two upcoming CDs, and even had time to fall love with Spain’s hottest commodity, Nicolas Colate Vallejo-Nájera, according to the magazine.

    Rubio competed against other Latin talents, including Reggeaton sensation Daddy Yankee, and Colombian rockers Shakira, and Juanes.

What’s next for Mexico’s Golden Girl? 

    Her latest project:  Two CDs, one in Spanish, the other in English, each delivering a blend of Latin, rock and hip-hop beats.  “These are two very different albums but both will show how much I’ve grown, personally and professionally,” says Rubio in an interview with the magazine.  “It’s great to mix my multi-cultural way of living into my music.

    “My muse in music is all women, women like Frida Kahlo, Eva Perón and Madonna. My music, my songs are 100% inspired by girl power.”

    Pau, as her fans call her, also listed her favorite musical role models, those that continue to move her professionally. 

    “I love Blondie, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis & Gwen Stefani, says Rubio.  “Rock and roll people, of course!”


Hispanic Scholarship Fund announces major college grants

    The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) recently announced several gifts, totaling more than $22 million, to help increase the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees.

    The new grants arrive in light of new research indicating that, while the number of Hispanic students attending college is increasing, the rate of Hispanics earning their bachelor’s degrees has stayed flat, said Hispanic Scholarship Fund President and CEO Sara Martinez Tucker.

    “HSF has been focused for 30 years toward creating a college-going culture among Hispanics, while helping parents and students navigate the college preparation and application process and encouraging students to enter college and ultimately graduate with their four-year degrees,” Tucker said.

New foundation grants include:

• Lilly Endowment Inc. – A $12.3 million grant to launch a new pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Georgia. The goal is to identify, implement and evaluate best practices for recruiting, retaining and graduating Hispanic students. The grant also will support initiatives at Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s regional offices.

• W.K. Kellogg Foundation – A $1.1 million grant to launch the National Hispanic Education Alliance (NHEA) with two founding partners: the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, and the University of Southern California’s Tomás Rivera Policy Institute in the School of Policy, Planning and Development. The NHEA unites the nation’s leading education organizations, academics and policy researchers to improve educational outcomes among Latinos.

    Aside from that, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund is launching four new corporate initiatives worth an additional $3.1 million. They include:

• Sallie Mae and The Sallie Mae Fund – Both entities have combined resources to provide $1.1 million for scholarships and to establish peer counseling, educational outreach programs and collateral resource materials.

• The Bank of America Charitable Foundation – A $1 million scholarship program to support graduating high school seniors over four years of college.

    For more information, visit http://www.hsf.net/

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