Dr. Carlos Albizu This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. Press Release.

   www.codina.com/group_news_indi - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/1/2000   Last Visited: 9/15/2000

   Codina Real Estate Management Named Property Manager for Carlos Albizu.
   
   Press Release
   
   ...
   Codina Real Estate Management Named Property Manager for Carlos Albizu.
   
   CORAL GABLES, Fla., August 1, 2000, DATE : [ 08/01/2000 ]Codina Group today announced that.Codina Real Estate Management Inc. has been named property manager for the.

2. 2. www.sgiquarterly.org

   www.sgiquarterly.org/english/F - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/1/2007   Last Visited: 7/6/2008

   Dr. Carlos Albizu, founder of the Carlos Albizu University and mentor of Dr. Santiago-Negrón
   ...
   I was deeply moved by the profound gratitude Dr. Santiago-Negrón felt for his mentor, Dr. Albizu.

3. 3. Miami's Community Newspapers - On-Line

   www.millerpub.com/2002/columns - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/6/2002   Last Visited: 5/20/2003

   Albizu, currently vice president of CAU, is the daughter of its namesake, Carlos Albizu.CAU is the only active four-year university in the country that recognizes a Hispanic through its name.A graduate of Florida State University, Albizu did not always envision herself following in her father's footsteps as an administrator.
   
   "I was starting my family and I was really looking to work in some sort of corporate environment," she said."At the time, my father did invite me to come in and work with him and I told him I did not think I was ready to do what he needed to be done."
   
   However, with her father's passing in 1984, Albizu rethought her decision and in 1986 joined the university.
   
   The elder Albizu received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue in 1953 and found ed the Puerto Rico Institute of Psychology in 1966."He realized that he was trained very much under a white-anglo-mainstream-midwestern American model that did not give him certain skills necessary to deal with the differences in the socio-cultural background of the people he was dealing with," said Albizu."With that in mind, he decided that we needed to include cultural competencies in the training of psychologists so that they can do a better job working with diverse populations."
   
   In her role as vice president at the university, Albizu honors her father by perpetuating his ideals.
   
   "I was instilled from a very young age with a great sense of social responsibility," said Albizu."We certainly try within this university to also share with our students and let them become aware of their social responsibilities.That is part of their training."
   
   Minorities are a major focus of Albizu's plans for the university."We wanted to address those professions that are most sought after by the minority members of our community," said Albizu."We know that in the field of psychology, even though Hispanics make up 13 percent of the population, only 2.9 percent of psychologists are of Hispanic descent.The total representation of minority psychologists in the American Psychological Association is a mere six percent."
   
   Albizu is happy that the university is located in the middle of the growth that Doral has been undergoing in the past 10 years."Doral is one of the fastest growing urban areas in Miami-Dade County," said Albizu."We want to be able to support the needs of the corporations that are housed here."
   
   Instead of making local employees come to them, CAU takes its courses out into the business community.
   
   "Perhaps we can go into the corporations and bring them the programs that they need," said Albizu."For example, we can have a professor go there and if they provide the space necessary, then a group of professionals could be enrolled at CAU without having to leave their office building."
   
   Reaching outside the university to aid the community, Albizu is the immediate past chair of a program serving at risk youth, enrolling 3,000 students in a drug prevention program.
   
   "I try to truly come out into the community and participate, assisting in whatever way I can all those organizations trying to bring across the point that education is an issue that requires a great deal of attention in the state," she said.
   
   Albizu is on the board of the Women's History Coalition of Miami-Dade County and for her work there was recognized as a Woman of Impact for 2002.As co-chair of the scholarship committee of the National Conference of Puerto Rican women, she helps bring more opportunity to an underserved segment of the community.
   
   "I strongly support programs that assist women in integrating themselves into higher education and be able to successfully complete a degree," said Albizu.Albizu maintains a relationship between education and local business by serving on the board of the Doral and Airport West Chamber of Commerce.She is also active in the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce and she is a trustee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, where she is co-chair of the higher education committee.