A graduation ceremony that celebrates Latino students’ culture at the University of Texas at Austin will go forward off campus, despite cuts to diversity programs that left the event unfunded. The cancelled Latinx Graduation will take place thanks in part to the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights group, and online donations.
Austin elected officials also discounted the cost of the venue, the Austin Independent School District Performing Arts Center. 'Among my cold calls, LULAC was one of them and they were 100%,' she said. This year's Latinx graduates will be given an orange chord, a color of the monarch butterfly, to drape across their shoulders, Ospina said. Monarchs, which migrate from Mexico to the U.S.
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