Big Executive Moves Within Hispanic Media

In a statement, Fusion announced that it had appointed Isaac Lee, the president of Univision News, as its chief executive. He will be in charge of programming and business development for the network, which is expected to make its debut Oct. 28, and replaces Beau Ferrari, the executive vice president of operations for Univision Networks who had been serving as the interim president of Fusion.

“Isaac is one of the most creative executives I know,” Randy Falco, the president and chief executive of Univision Communications, said in a statement. “His innovation and commitment makes him the right person in this expanded role.”

Ben Sherwood, the president of ABC News, said Mr. Lee’s “deep understanding of content that is relevant to Latinos and millennials will be critical as we bring together diverse cultures, voices and viewpoints to serve this influential and growing audience in the months and years ahead.”

Speculation about who would lead the network intensified after Cesar Conde, the president of Univision’s networks division since 2009, announced last month that he was leaving to become an executive vice president at NBCUniversal, the parent company of Telemundo, a rival Spanish-language network to Univison.

Telemundo had its own executive shake-up on Friday after Joe Uva, the chairman of Hispanic enterprises and content at NBCUniversal, sent an internal e-mail to staff announcing that Emilio Romano, the president of Telemundo, was stepping down. In the e-mail, Mr. Uva, who had been the president and chief executive at Univision from 2007 to 2011, thanked Mr. Romano for his contributions to Telemundo.

“His focus on positioning Telemundo to take share from Univision, and Mun2 to better resonate with the rapidly growing millennial population has established a foundation for growth,” Mr. Uva wrote, referring to the bilingual cable channel. “As a result, he has been instrumental in elevating the perception of Telemundo in the marketplace. Most recently, he has been a good partner to me.”

Mr. Uva, who has held his current position at NBCUniversal since April, said that he expected to begin the search for a replacement at Telemundo immediately and that he would be spending more time at the network’s Florida headquarters in the coming weeks.

Mr. Romano’s tenure ends exactly two years after he was named president of Telemundo. In 2011, Mr. Romano, a former chief executive for Grupo Mexicana de Aviación, the Mexican airline carrier, succeeded Don Browne. Mr. Romano declined to comment.

Yale Law Hires Its First Hispanic in a Tenured Position

By Karen Sloan All Articles 

The National Law Journal

January 14, 2013

Yale Law School's Cristina Rodriguez

It's official: Yale Law School has its first tenured Hispanic faculty member. Dean Richard Post announced last week that Cristina Rodriguez will join the faculty on January 28.

Rodriguez, an expert on immigration law, has taught at New York University School of Law since 2004. She took a leave from NYU in 2010 to become deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.

"Cristina is the nation's leading theorist of immigration law," Post said in a written statement. "Her work is both practical and cutting edge, and she brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. She is a superb teacher, and I expect that she will be a mentor to generations of students."

The Yale Daily News reported in March 2012 that the law school had offered Rodriguez a tenured post. That news came out of a town hall meeting between administrators and students about faculty diversity.

Law school faculties are slowly becoming more diverse, although minority groups remain underrepresented. Statistics from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) show that as of 2008 -- the most recent numbers available -- nearly 72 percent of law professors nationwide were white. Of law faculty holding tenure or tenure-track jobs, 80 percent were white.

The AALS annual meeting in New Orleans earlier this month featured a day-long slate of panels discussing minority faculty and student recruitment. A 2010 study underwritten by the American Bar Foundation and the Law School Admission Council found that lower percentages of women and minority law professors thought the tenure process was fair.

Harvard Law School garnered attention in 2011 when it granted tenure to Jeannie Suk, making her the first tenured Asian-American woman on its faculty. (Harvard has approximately 138 full-time faculty members, compared to Yale's 74, according to the American Bar Association.)

Rodriguez, who received her J.D. from Yale, was a visiting professor there in fall 2009. She will teach constitutional law, administrative law and immigration law.