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Higher Education Institute

Friday, April 5, 2013
A major challenge for our nation's higher education community is improving its capacity to graduate a growing number of Latino and first-generation college students. This year's conference and professional development institute is focused on the questions of institutional and student cultures. We consider the cultural richness brought to our campuses by our students, staffs and faculties as an untapped resource for meeting the educational challenges for students whose cultural experiences differ dramatically from the culture of higher education. How can these cultures intersect and integrate in ways that result in more graduates of our institutions? We also consider what is needed to produce more culturally competent graduates prepared to succeed in intercultural and global contexts. This institute is targeted to faculty and staff in higher education, particularly in HSIs and emerging HSIs as a professional development experience.

*All presentations will take place in Providence Hall, West Social Room

Schedule of Presentations 
Time Event
8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 
9 a.m. Welcome, Jane Ann Slater, CDP, PhD, interim president, Our Lady of the Lake University and Teresita Aguilar, PhD, director for CMASR
9:15 a.m. "Transforming Higher Education for the Diverse New Majority"
Dr. Christine Sleeter, professor emerita of education, CSU Monterey Bay
10:30 a.m. "Empowering  Students, Communities and Institutions: The Coalescing of Science, Cultura and Capacity-Building"
Dr. Delia Saenz, vice provost, International and Institutional Inclusion, Arizona State University 
11:45 a.m. Luncheon (Location: TBD)
1 p.m.  "Challenges and Rewards: Cultural Studies in Higher Education Today"
Faculty Panelists:
  Juan Tejeda - Music and Mexican American Studies, Palo Alto College
  Corina Stout-Gonzalez - Mexican American Studies, Northwest Vista College
  June Pedraza - English, Northwest Vista College
  Keta Miranda - Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio
  Respondent:
Steve Wise, OLLU 
2:30 p.m.              "Ethnic Studies: Expectations, Experiences & Outcomes"
Student Panelists:  
  Joseph Garcia, University of New Mexico
  Tyler Tully, Our Lady of the Lake University 
  Candy Camargo, Our Lady of the Lake University 
  Timothy Garcia-Giddens, University of Texas at San Antonio
  Elida Cervantes, Palo Alto College
  Respondent: 
Mariana Scuros-Ornelas, Humanities and Spanish, Palo Alto College 
3:50 p.m. "Bringing it all Together and Looking Ahead-Our Challenge for a 'Cultural Response' from the Higher Education Community"
Teresita Aguilar, PhD, director CMASR 

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