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    • Faculty Collaborative Initiatives
    • Modules and Learning Objects
    • Resources
    • Online Workshops
    • Trends on Hispanic Higher Ed
    • Trends on Distance Ed
    • Research
    • Professional Org. and Assoc.
    • Fellowship information
  • Student Placita
    • Peterson’s Test Prep (former TERC)
    • Career Exploration Module
    • Peterson’s Career Prep
    • STEM
    • Entrepreneurship Courses
    • ESL Courses
    • Tools and Resources
    • Online Education – Student Readiness
    • Traditional Education – Student Readiness
    • Internships
    • Scholarships at Member Inst.
    • Scholarships for Hispanics
    • Financial Literacy Guides
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Student Placita Video Tutorial (Eng)  Student Placita Video Tutorial (Spa)

Tools, Resources, and Study Aids about readiness, learning, technology, and success for Hispanic students pursuing opportunities to succeed in Higher Education.

Student Support: RStudent Placitaesources and services help students determine their future careers using tools validated by third-party organizations. Study aids are included to help Hispanic students overcome deficiencies in English, Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology.

  • Peterson’s Test Prep (former Testing and Education Reference Center- TERC) Download the Test Prep guide in English|Download the Test Prep guide in Spanish
  • Career Exploration Module
  • Peterson’s Career Prep Download the Career Prep guide in English |Download the Career Prep guide in Spanish
  • STEM
  • Entrepreneurship Courses and Resources  
  • ESL courses from USA Learns | ( ESL Courses Video Tutorial (Eng)|
    ESL Courses Video Tutorial (Spa))
  • Tools and Resources

Student Readiness: HETS seeks to help Hispanic students meet their academic goals in traditional and online learning environments. Thus, we have gathered a partial list of tools, websites to aid you in that objective.

  • Online Education
  • Traditional Education

Financial Aid: When pursuing a college career, funding an important concern. To help Hispanic students overcome this issue HETS member institutions over a variety of financial aids.  Other private organizations provide scholarships and fellowships to assist Latinos’ meet academic objectives.  The following sections are helpful in identifying financial resources. 

  • Scholarships, internships (member institutions)
  • Scholarships for Hispanics
  • Financial Literacy Guides

General Internships for Students: An internship has been defined as job training and consists of an exchange of services for experience between students and organizations. Interns maybe college or university students, high school students, or post-graduate adults. On the following link, you will find different opportunities that will help you either determine if you have an interest in a particular career, create a network of contacts, or gain school credit. These positions may be paid or unpaid and are usually temporary. Some interns find permanent, paid employment with the organizations for which they worked upon completion of the internship.

  • Internships

HETS members special offerings:  More than 40 colleges and universities constitute HETS. HETS started in 1993 as a small group of institutions interested in sharing courses at a distance, since then, it has grown to be a hub where a continuously increasing number of colleges, universities, corporations, and other organizations that collaborate and network in different scenarios and from different perspectives. Technology is the link that gathers of all them together in this collaborative web. In this section, you will find special program offerings from our member institutions.

  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley–  Since Spring 2015, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Business (at Brownsville) started offering an online Master of Business Administration taught completely in Spanish.

Student Support

  • Peterson’s Test Prep
  • Career Exploration Module
  • Peterson’s Career Prep
  • STEM
  • Entrepreneurship Courses
  • Tools and Resources
  • ESL courses by USA Learns

Financial Aid

  • Scholarships for Hispanics
  • Scholarships at HETS Member Institutions
  • Internships
  • Financial Literacy Guides

Faculty

  • Collaboration Initiatives

Professional Development

  • Modules & Learning Objects
  • Resources
  • Online Workshops

Hispanic Educational Research

  • Trends on Hispanic Higher Education
  • Trends on Distance Education

Administrators

  • Research
  • Professional Organizations & Associations

Fellowships

  • Fellowship Information

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¡Nos encanta escuchar su experiencia con nosotros! Muchas gracias a Elisandra Candelario Muñiz, Estudiante de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ponce, por tu apoyo a nuestras actividades. !Te deseamos mucho éxito en tu carrera universitaria! Para conocer más sobre nuestro eventos visite: hets.org.Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (Página Oficial) ... See MoreSee Less

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¡Nos encanta escuchar su experiencia con nosotros! Muchas gracias a Elisandra Candelario , Estudiante de la @InterPonce por tu apoyo a nuestras actividades. !Te deseamos mucho éxito en tu carrera universitaria! Conoce más sobre nuestro eventos en: http://hets.org.

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We're delighted to invite you to our next webinar in English for faculty about finding what works for synchronous class meetings, by @stellacsporto, Learning Specialist at the @the_IDB. The webinar is free of charge, just need to register here🔗: https://hets.org/webinars-in-english/

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