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Arturo Madrid, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Trinity University, received the 2009 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. Cited for his "intellectual excellence and integrity in research in scholarship," Madrid joins a short, exclusive list of honorees that includes poet Maya Angelou, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Johnnetta Cole, president emeritus of Spelman College.

Madrid, whose wife is historian Antonia Castañeda, founded the Tomás Rivera Center, the nation's first policy institute on Latino issues, was Director for the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education and served on the U.S. Commission on the Future of Higher Education. His long series of honors and awards includes the Matt Garcia Service Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Charles Frankel Prize from the National Endowment of the Humanities, presented to him by President Bill Clinton. Madrid's most current award is named for African-American scholar John Hope Franklin, who helped establish the field of African-American studies.