{"id":28027,"date":"2018-10-04T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2018\/10\/04\/carlossantiago\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:25:42","slug":"carlossantiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/10\/04\/carlossantiago\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Closes Hispanic Month Celebration with Presentation on Puerto Ricans in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2018\/10\/Carlos-Santiago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19001 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2018\/10\/Carlos-Santiago-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Carlos Santiago, a native of Puerto Rico who is commissioner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.edu\/\">Massachusetts Department of Higher Education<\/a> (DHE), has co-written a book titled \u201cPuerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Oct. 15, he will share highlights of his book during a presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a> in Lawrence that begins at 6:30 pm in the El-Hefni Health &amp; Technology Center, 414 Common St, Lawrence, Room 301. \u00a0The presentation is free and open to the public, and closes the college\u2019s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago co-authored the book with Edna Acosta-Belen, a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Albany, SUNY. \u00a0The book, which is in its second edition, traces the trajectory of the Puerto Rican experience from the early colonial period, though a series of waves of migration to the U.S., to current cultural legacies and political and social challenges. \u00a0It covers the history, contributions, and contemporary realities of the every-growing Puerto Rican diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago joined the Massachusetts DHE in 2013 as senior deputy commissioner for academic affairs and he was appointed commissioner in July of 2015. \u00a0Prior to that he was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin\u2014Milwaukee (Wisconsin\u2019s second largest research university). Santiago is the author or co-author of six books and he has published dozens of articles and book reviews, of which many focus on economic development and the changing socioeconomic status of Latinos in the United States. \u00a0Santiago has been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine two times, in 1996 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPuerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait\u201d will be available for purchase at the event.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact Analuz Garcia, NECC\u2019s assistant director of community &amp; international relations, <a href=\"mailto:agarcia@necc.mass.edu\">agarcia@necc.mass.edu<\/a> or call 978-738-7423.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Santiago, a native of Puerto Rico who is commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE), has co-written a book titled \u201cPuerto Ricans in the United States: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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