 ARTURO MADRID
Hispanic culture; bilingual education; Hispanics in higher education
Distinguished professor of the humanities in modern languages and literatures; founding president and former senior scholar of the Tomas Rivera Center, a national institute for policy studies on Latino issues; adviser to Clinton administration on both education and arts, providing educational and work force policy agenda for the White House; recipient of the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; elected fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations and National Academy for Public Administration; previously served as director of the U.S. Education Department’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education and recently served on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. |