AAHHE proudly announces its

8th Annual National Conference

“Toward a Latino Attainment Agenda: Shaping our Own Destiny”

“Hacia una agenda Latina: Forjando Nuestro Destino”

Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

Pre-Conference Workshops

March 28, 2013, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ø  Affordability

How can financial aid policies at the federal, state, and college level help ensure that more students have a chance to go to college and stay through graduation?  This workshop will discuss financial aid policies - ranging from aid application (FAFSA), grants, loans, and repayment - that support or hinder students' ability to enroll, persist, and graduate.

Michele Siqueiros, Executive Director, Campaign for College Opportunity

Debbie Cochrane, Research Director, The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS)

Ø  Building Strategic Relationships: What Works

Description: The success or failure of our most important educational and equity initiatives depends more than anything on the dynamics, vitality, and authenticity of our strategic relationships.  This interactive seminar will offer a set of ideas drawn from research and practice that will deeply engage the group in exploring the non-negotiables of creating and sustaining lasting strategic relationships and provide them with resources and tools that can be applied to regional, state, and national work in progress.

Sara Lundquist, V.P. Student Services, Santa Ana College

Susan Johnson, Program Officer, Lumina Foundation for Education

Ø  Serving the Veteran Population

Veterans have been enrolling in higher education at increasingly larger numbers due primarily to the Post 9/11 GI Bill and enhanced federal educational benefits.   This is a unique population of nontraditional students that require intentional support services and programming. We’ll look at the veteran population from a national perspective and also provide an overview of how UTSA is purposely meeting the needs of this unique community.

Lisa Firmin, Colonel, USAF ret, Associate Provost for Diversity & Recruitment, The University

of Texas at San Antonio

Junior Ortiz, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Veterans’ Employment & Training Service (VETS),

United States Department of Labor

Ø  College and Career Readiness: Getting to the Campus Level

This workshop will seek to address the following questions:

What is the Common Core and what does it mean for colleges and universities?

Why is it vital that higher education support the development of the Common Core?

Developmental Education: What do we know in theory and practice?

What campus strategies have been most effective with Latino student populations?

Elizabeth R. Gutierrez, Director of State Policy, Lumina Foundation for Education

Albert Karnig, President Emeritus, California State University, San Bernardino

David T. Conley, Professor – University of Oregon, Founder & CEO, Educational Policy

Improvement Center (EPIC)

Sonia Ortiz-Mercado, Dean – Matriculation & Early Assessment, California Community

College Chancellor’s Office

Please register for the 8th Annual National AAHHE Conference

by logging into the AAHHE website: www.aahhe.org

Loui Olivas

Loui Olivas, President

American Association of Hispanics

   in Higher Education (AAHHE)

c/o Arizona State University

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Tempe, AZ  85287-5303

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