Article Title: Latino education conference to be held at Cal State San Bernardino in spring Date: 12/4/2009 Author: Carmen Murillo-Moyeda
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Cal State San Bernardino will host its first Latino Education and Advocacy Day, or LEAD, conference for educators and advocates on Monday, March 29, 2010.
"A Day of Courageous Conversations" will convene the community's educators, administrators and leaders to enhance their intellectual, cultural and personal development, as well as promote an awareness of the crisis in Latino education.
The LEAD summit, which will be hosted by CSUSB's College of Education, will be held on campus in the Santos Manuel Student Union from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and is free to participants.
Enrique Murillo Jr., associate professor of language, literacy and culture at CSUSB, chairs the LEAD organizing committee comprised of nearly 20 volunteers across campus.
The one-day summit will feature keynote speakers such as Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. Sepulveda directs the White House Initiative in engaging Hispanic students, parents, families, organizations and anyone working in or with the education system in communities nationwide to improve the academic achievement of Hispanic Americans.
Social activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers, will present a special screening and post-film discussion of her documentary, "Viva La Causa," at the end of the day's program. The film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Huerta in the 1960s.
Sylvia Mendez, civil rights activist and the then 8-year-old plaintiff in the 1946 desegregation case, Mendez vs. Westminster, will open the LEAD summit by delivering a keynote speech. The success of this case made California the first state to end segregation in schools, paving the way for Brown vs. Board of Education, which brought an end to school segregation in the entire country.
Also being launched at the summit will be the "Handbook of Latinos and Education," which was edited by Murillo and five other colleagues. Scheduled to be released later this month, the handbook, published by Routledge, is a comprehensive review of thorough, innovative, and critical scholarship relevant to educational issues that impact Latinos.
In addition to Murillo as editor-in-chief, the book was also edited by five colleagues -- Sofia A. Villenas, Ruth Trinidad Galvan, Juan Sanchez Munoz, Corinne Martinez and Margarita Machado-Casas.
The LEAD summit will be webcast to participating universities throughout the country at town hall viewings sponsored by Latino Graduate.net. Some of the sites are Harvard; Purdue; Columbia; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Texas A&M University; New York University; and the University of Georgia, Athens, among others.
Town hall viewings at some of the locations in Mexico include the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Universidad de Monterrey and Universidad Michoacana.
To date, the event has attracted more than 120 sponsors and partners, including the United States Department of Agriculture, Hispanic Serving Institutions National Program; the Journal of Latinos and Education; American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education; Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities; the California Association for Bilingual Education and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, among others.
Cal State San Bernardino also will promote its doctorate in educational leadership program. It prepares educational leaders with the advanced skills and knowledge base needed to build and sustain meaningful relationships with faculty, staff and students and their families. The Ed.D. program also keeps students informed and gives them the broad-based dispositions needed to effect reforms that help improve student achievement.
For more information and to register online for the conference, visit the LEAD main Web site or contact Enrique Murillo Jr. at (909) 537-5632. A list of participating partners and sponsors may be viewed on the LEAD Web site sponsor page.
For more information about Cal State San Bernardino, contact the university's Office of Public Affairs at (909) 537-5007 and visit news.csusb.edu. |
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