CONCURRENT SESSIONS - CALL FOR PROPOSALS, “Latina/o Students: Policy, Assessment and Academic Preparation for Success”, AAHHE, Thirteenth Annual National Conference March 8-10, 2018 Hotel Irvine, Irvine, California

Thirteenth Annual National Conference March 8-10, 2018 Hotel Irvine, Irvine, California “Latina/o Students: Policy, Assessment and  Academic Preparation for Success” CONCURRENT SESSIONS - CALL FOR PROPOSALS Choose from one of the following session streams:   1.  Serving Latina/o Students: Evolving Role of the Community College 2.  Creating Pathways for Latinas/os in the STEM fields   3.  Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Students 4. Preparing the Next Generation of Latina/o Students: Access, Delivery, Workforce 5. Policy, Assessment and Academic Preparation: Facilitating Student Success   CALL FOR PROPOSAL FORM, click here.   Submission deadline: Monday, September 25, 2017  Please refer to the AAHHE website for more information  and proposal application: www.AAHHE.org

IAIA Artist-in-Residence Schedule for September 2017

NEWS RELEASE                        For Immediate Release  Contact:    Lara M. Evans, Associate Dean  505.424.2389, or levans@iaia.edu    Eric Davis, Marketing & Communications Director                505.424.2351, or eric.davis@iaia.edu   Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) September 2017 Artist-in-Residence Program IAIA Continues Series of Month-Long Residencies at the School    SANTA FE, NM - August 29, 2017 - The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) announces the Artist-in-Residence Schedule of Activities for September 2017. IAIA continues their series of month-long artist residencies which began in August, 2015. Native and First Nations artists were selected to come to Santa Fe to make art and interact with both the campus community and the Santa Fe arts community. The program includes public receptions and artist talks from each of the artists. A selection committee of students, faculty, and staff reviewed applications for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) Program and selected artists for the 2017 sessions. Artist-in-Residence Program Director and IAIA Associate Dean Lara M. Evans (Cherokee Nation) remarked: "It's so exciting to have this group of artists here together at the same time. We anticipate interesting conversations about plant and animal materials that seem fragile, but can be worked in ways that produce strength and flexibility simultaneously."  Receptions and Studio Events take place on the IAIA Campus, located at 83 Avan Nu Po Road, eight minutes from the intersection of Rodeo Road and Richards Avenue, on the south side of Santa Fe.  For directions and a map of the campus, click here.  IAIA Artists-in-Residence (A-i-R) EVENTS September 1-30, 2017  IAIA Welcome Reception for Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen   Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:00pm-6:30pm in the Academic Building  Please join us in welcoming A-i-R artists, Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen to the IAIA campus. Dinner will be served from 5:00pm-5:45pm, followed by a tour of the artists' studios.  Free and open to the public.      IAIA A-i-R Open Studios Wednesday, September 13, 2017  3:00pm-5:00pm in the Allan Houser Haozous Sculpture and Foundry Building and the Academic Building.  Please join our current Artists-in-Residence Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen    for an open studio session. See what they've been working on during their IAIA residency Refreshments served.  Free and open to the public. KSFR Radio Broadcast Tuesday, September 19, 2017 4:00pm-4:30pm KSFR Radio Station Tune in to hear IAIA Artists-in-Residence speak about their work and their IAIA residency experience. Listen locally at KSFR 101.1FM or stream live at KSFR.org.     Resilient Fibers Saturday, September 23, 2017 1:00pm-2:30 pm IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art The IAIA Artists-in-Residence for the month of September are all fiber artists! Come to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art for hands-on experiences with interesting materials: wool, bark, grasses, and cured fish skin. Gain insight into techniques and materials featured in the exhibition Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. Janice George(Squamish Nation) introduces  Coast Salish weaving, Leanne Campbell (Coeur d'Alene) shows twining techniques used in basketry, and Martha Nielsen (Kokhanok Village) shares Alaskan fish skin as a material for clothing. Free and open to the public. IAIA A-i-R Farewell Reception  Thursday, September 28, 2017  5:00pm-6:30pm Academic Building  Please join us for dinner in the Academic Building on September 28th Followed by a visit to the A-i-R studios to view their accomplishments during their residency.   Free and open to the public.           All events are free and open to the public except the Radio Show. Janice George Janice George (Chepximiya Siyam), from Squamish Nation, Canada, is a master weaver and textile artist who learned to weave from Coast Salish weaver Susan Pavel and Subiyay-t Bruce Miller of Skokomish in 2003. George has integrated Squamish teachings into her work from her late Grandmother Kwitelut-t Lena Jacobs and other Squamish ancestors. George states, "In this short time of my weaving life, a few of my mentors have left this earth. Their breath is carried on in the teachings I pass on. I feel and see the pride that comes from reclaiming our inheritance from our elders and ancestors when we weave and when we wear our beloved weavings. We are taught spiritual protection is part of what we are wearing and feel the love that is put in each hand movement it takes to make a robe." George co-authored the book Salish Blankets, Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth with Willard Joseph and Leslie H. Tepper. For the last twelve years, the artist has been teaching her textile skills across Salish speaking territory. She attended Capilano University, British Columbia, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, and interned at the Canadian Museum of History, Quebec.    Leanne Campbell   Leanne Campbell is an enrolled member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe or Schitsu'umsh - meaning "Those who were found here" or "The Discovered People". Her lineage includes the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation located in central Washington and the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho. Campbell embraces her history, culture, language and traditions while being a speaker of the Schitsu'umsh language. Most renowned for her unique skills in traditional and cultural arts with beadwork and basketry. Her beadwork is a mix of pictorial, geometric designs and old style floral designs of the Northwest Columbia Plateau. Campbell gained valuable experience and knowledge by working over the past twenty-four years with the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. Currently, Campbell serves as the Historic Preservation Program Manager/Curator for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Museum Studies with a minor in Studio Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, and is a United States Air Force veteran of the Desert Shield/Desert Storm era. Martha Nielsen Martha Marlene Ann Nielsen is Yupik from Kokhanok, Alaska, located on the south shore of lake Iliamna. This is the largest lake in Alaska and contains several species of fish that spawn yearly. From a young age she has helped to preserve smoke and salt sockeye salmon for winter use. Nielsen is self-taught in the art of making baskets, wallets and jewelry with sockeye salmon skin. She experienced trial and error on learning how to preserve fish skin. Salmon skin art was seen as a lost skill in her area, inspiring her to reintroduce the rare technique by teaching students of all ages. Nielsen has been creating art with fish skin since 2002.      For questions regarding the A-i-R program, or to interview any of the artists, please contact Lara M. Evans at 505.424.2389 or levans@iaia.edu.      Funding for the IAIA A-i-R Program has been generously provided by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies. Interested in applying for an IAIA Artist-in-Residence session? The deadline for Spring 2018 is October 1st. Please visit www.iaia.edu/air Offering undergraduate degrees in Studio Arts, Creative Writing, Cinematic Arts and Technology, Indigenous Liberal Studies, and Museum Studies -- and a graduate degree in Creative Writing -- IAIA is the only college in the nation dedicated to the study of contemporary Native arts. The school serves 593 Native and non-Native American college students from across the globe.  IAIA is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges -- and is the only college in New Mexico accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.      # # #   About IAIA -- For over 50 years, the Institute of American Indian Arts has played a key role in the direction and shape of Native expression. With an internationally acclaimed college, museum, and tribal support resource through the IAIA Land Grant Programs, IAIA is dedicated to the study and advancement of Native arts and cultures -- and committed to student achievement and the preservation and progress of their communities.  Learn more about IAIA and our mission at www.iaia.edu.  The Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.  To make a donation on-line, please click here -- or call toll free: 1.800.804.6423.

Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 A Van Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507

BILITERACY FACULTY POSITION, The Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL) in the College of Education at the University of Maryland

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BILITERACY

FACULTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL) in the College of Education at the University of Maryland invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Division of Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry (LLSI) at the rank of Assistant Professor with a focus on biliteracy, effective fall, 2018.

The new faculty member will engage in an interdisciplinary way across LLSI division interests, working with colleagues and students involved in programs in Reading Education, English Education, TESOL, World Languages, and Applied Linguistics.  We therefore encourage applicants from a wide range of fields whose research examines the intersection of bilingualism and literacy education.

The successful candidate will:

Establish a productive research agenda informing the field of biliteracy, seek external funding, and contribute to national and international scholarship in the field.

Teach in a range of modalities (in-person, online, and hybrid) and at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels in the division’s programs.

Advise and mentor undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students.

Perform service as appropriate to the department, college, university, profession, and community.

Located in the greater Washington DC area, the University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship research university and land grant institution in the state. The Department is deeply committed to social justice, equity and excellence. It embraces a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, values collaborative research, and encourages faculty to work across divisions and specializations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

Earned doctorate in a relevant field.

Demonstrated success or potential for strong productivity in research, grant writing and scholarship with a focus on biliteracy.

Teaching experience in grades pre-K through 12.

Preferred Qualifications:

Teacher certification.

Experience teaching literacy in programs for bilingual learners in grades pre-K through 12.

College/university teaching experience.

Experience with underserved populations.

Proficiency in a language or dialect other than Standard English.

HOW TO APPLY 

All applications will be processed through the University of Maryland eTerp system. Screening will begin on October 17, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. For best consideration, applicants should submit their materials prior to this date. Candidates should upload their application materials to http://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/54062, to include (a) letter of application describing their research and teaching interests as well as their qualifications for the position; (b) a curriculum vitae; (c) two samples of scholarship; and (d) three letters of support.  For questions about the position, please contact either of the Search Committee Co-Chairs, Jeff MacSwan (macswan@umd.edu) or Wayne Slater (wslater@umd.edu). For questions about the online application process, please contact Kay Moon (kmoon@umd.edu).

The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or application because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. The University actively seeks to attract and retain outstanding and diverse faculty and staff to enhance its mission as an engaged public university.

URGENT: Bilingual Spanish-English speakers needed for help with evacuees

Over the next 4 days, Austin will be welcoming thousands of displaced families from Houston.

There are enough English speaking volunteers but the Red Cross does not have any bilingual volunteers.

We are in desperate need of bilingual, Spanish/English speaking volunteers tomorrowmorning.

Please show up at the Delco Center 4601 Pecan Brook Dr, Austin, TX 78724 every day from now until Sunday; shifts are 9am -1pm or 1pm to 5pm.

Update: La Cosecha Dual Language Conference Registration, ABQ, NM

Honoring the Past, Shaping the Present, Inspiring our Future

Registration Update - Regular Registration Deadline: September 25, 2017 Now is the time to register for this year's 22nd Annual Dual Language Conference La Cosecha, November 1 - 4, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! Register now before the Regular Registration Deadline and save!   La Cosecha 2017 will be bigger and better than ever this year - with more than 260 sessions and 4 days of networking with your peers. This year's conference promises to yield some of the best practices and latest research for your school and classrooms. Start planning your conference experience today, click here to for more information, including featured speakers and a conference schedule. Questions? Give us a call at (505) 243-0648. We look forward to seeing you in November!  ¡Seguimos con La Cosecha! Jill Hudson, Brad Neu, Bernie Chávez, Darlene Pilón, Silvia Sosa de Chávez, JoAnn García, Rosie González-Rogers, Jackie Rodríguez, Florence López, Carmen López-Gastón, Dee García, Raquel Balboa, Virginia Montoya, Alma Gamboa, José Cervantes, Marco Sandoval, Olivia Domínguez, Isai Navarrete, Jessica Chavarría, Luis García, Denelle Linebarger, José Azul Cortés, Gina González-Young, Melanie Gatewood, Kyle Roberts, Leslie Sánchez and David Rogers La Cosecha 2017 Planning Committee

Smithsonian pre-doc opportunity-- Deadline Oct. 15, 2017

American Latino Experience Building Curatorial Excellence Pre-Doctoral Fellowships

Armed Forces History 

The Division of Armed Forces History is currently accepting applications for a one year Pre-Doctoral fellowship of $37,700 total (includes $5000 from Museum for travel and expenses) that would offer an opportunity for a fellow to conduct independent research or study focused on the experiences of Latino Americans relating to the United States military. This includes the history of Latino participation in the military, its link to citizenship, and the impact of military service on Latinos, their families, and their communities. The Fellow will have an opportunity to receive training in interpreting the existing collections through documenting American Latino stories in the collection and learning how to build new collections in the Armed Forces Division. Just as critically the Fellow will gain personal skills in collections curation, preservation, and exhibition production.

As part of this project, the Fellow will also have an opportunity to conduct independent research on a project of his or her own choosing, which relates to the history of Latino military history. A possible topic, for example, might entail the exploration of the 65th Infantry Division “Borinqueneers” history particularly during the Korean War (recent recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal, which is in our collections).Over the course of a year, the Fellow may learn about pinpointing potential objects for collection and documenting this story; this may entail collecting and researching objects, and also conducting oral histories.

Over the course of the year, the Fellow may deliver a presentation on his or her research at the National Museum of American History’s weekly colloquium, submit a research report to the Division on his or her work in this area, and offer input on a plan, which will guide the Division’s future collecting in this area. The Fellow may also submit a proposal for a conference presentation on this project at the end of the year. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students at any stage in their programs. To apply, please go to (https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/#/public) and choose the NMAH American Latino Experience Predoctoral Fellowship (Armed Forces History) Program and upload your CV, a 300 word prospectus for a project on Latino Armed Forces History and two references by 10/15/2017.

Medicine and Science

The Division of Medicine and Science is currently accepting applications for a one year Pre-Doctoral fellowship of $37,700 total (includes $5000 from Museum for travel and expenses) that would offer an opportunity for a fellow to conduct independent research or study focused on public health, medical care, and the experiences of Latino Americans. The Fellow will have an opportunity to receive training in interpreting the existing Medicine collection through research and documenting American Latino stories in the collection and learning how to build the addition of new material to the Division of Medicine and Science’s collections. Just as critically the Fellow will gain personal skills in collections curation, preservation, and documentation of objects.

As part of this project, the Fellow will also have an opportunity to conduct independent research on a project of his or her own choosing which relates to the history of Latino American health. A possible topic might, for example, entail an exploration of farmworkers’ health (in 2010, nearly half of all farmworkers in the United States were Latino, with the majority of these workers being born outside of the United States). Over the course of a year, the Fellow may learn about pinpointing potential objects for collection and documenting this important story; this may entail collecting and researching objects, and also conducting oral histories.

Over the course of the year, the Fellow may deliver a presentation on his or her research at the National Museum of American History’s weekly colloquium, submit a research report to the Division on his or her work in this area, and offer input on a plan, which will guide the Division’s future collecting in this area. The Fellow may also submit a proposal for a conference presentation on this project at the end of the year. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students at any stage in their programs. To apply, please go to (https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/#/public) and choose the NMAH American Latino Experience Predoctoral Fellowship (Medicine and Science) Program and upload your CV, a 300 word prospectus for a project on American Latino health and two references by 10/15/2017.

Please circulate this:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/getinvolved/fellowship

AERA Statement on the Hateful Acts in Charlottesville

AERA Statement on the Hateful Acts in Charlottesville

August 18, 2017


The American Educational Research Association condemns racism in all its forms and joins others throughout our nation in the fight to eradicate hate, injustice, and racial violence. The recent events in Charlottesville not only make visible how White supremacy, racism, antisemitism, religious persecution, homophobia, and xenophobia continue to permeate our society, but also remind us of the critical importance of studying, analyzing, and broadly communicating about these patterns and structures. Our social responsibility as a community of education researchers is to engage in producing knowledge and to share that knowledge with clarity and integrity.

A wide range of scholarship can and must be used to inform and engage current and future generations in the multiple stories of our pasts, the realities of our presents, and the critical demands of our futures. We need to uncover and analyze how our educational system is connected to our past and present legacies of racism in all of its forms—how our institutions and practices persistently reproduce inequities. We must also develop the knowledge and evidence that can lead to practices and policies that address hate, support understanding and respect of others, and disrupt the divisive patterns of disparity and denigration. Researchers, together with educators across all levels of education, must confront the racism, xenophobia, power and privilege, and injustice that permeate the ordinary life of our nation and world and interrogate and teach the histories of our past. No one should leave our educational institutions thinking that the expressions of hate that were on display in Charlottesville are just legitimate “points of view” or acceptable acts of “free speech.” No one should leave our classrooms or campuses believing that the symbols of oppression and killing are mere logos.

Education is fundamentally about our futures as a nation and a world, for education can empower the next generation of human beings who can promote and protect human rights, build institutions, make laws, create knowledge and art, and imagine and make possible a just world. AERA is committed to providing the knowledge base and working with other scientific organizations to support educators and others in our communities to be able to confront hate and to teach all people to know the histories of slavery, racism, genocide, inhumanity, oppression, colonialism, and White supremacy, as well as to know and learn from the stories of those who have fought and devoted their lives to justice. We strive to make known and foster the use of research on institutional and individual factors that engender prejudice and acts of violence against groups. As researchers, we must be prepared to support educators with tools, knowledge, and expertise to notice, name, deal with, and confront these issues as they arise in our contemporary world, our communities, and in our institutions and classrooms.

Now is the time, as new school and academic years commence, to ensure that we do not ignore or forget the realities that underlie what we have just experienced nor resume a normalcy that belies the scholarship that we have. AERA is committed to continuing this conversation as we go from city to city. It is our priority in planning for the 2018 Annual Meeting in April in New York and speaks to the very heart of this year’s theme—“The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education.”


Deborah Loewenberg Ball, AERA President
Felice J. Levine, AERA Executive Director
 

Removal of Confederate Statues on the UT Campus

Dear UT Community, Last week, the horrific displays of hatred at the University of Virginia and in Charlottesville shocked and saddened the nation. These events make it clear, now more than ever, that Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism. After the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in June 2015, and with the urging of students, I formed a task force of faculty, students, alumni and university leaders to evaluate six statues on UT's Main Mall that included depictions of four military and political leaders of the Confederacy. The task force presented five options, ranging from the installation of contextual materials to the removal of some or all of the statues. At that time, I decided to move the statues of Jefferson Davis and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The Davis statue has since been restored and presented at UT’s Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in a scholarly exhibition about the Littlefield Fountain and the six Main Mall statues. During the past several days, I have talked with student leaders, students, faculty members, staff members and alumni to listen to their views after the revelatory events in Charlottesville. I also revisited the very thorough 2015 task force report. After considering the original task force report and with the events of the past week and my discussions with the campus community in mind, I have decided to relocate the remaining four statues. The statues depicting Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg are now being removed from the Main Mall. The Lee, Johnston and Reagan statues will be added to the collection of the Briscoe Center for scholarly study. The statue of James Hogg, governor of Texas (1891-1895), will be considered for re-installation at another campus site. The University of Texas at Austin is a public educational and research institution, first and foremost. The historical and cultural significance of the Confederate statues on our campus — and the connections that individuals have with them — are severely compromised by what they symbolize. Erected during the period of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the statues represent the subjugation of African Americans. That remains true today for white supremacists who use them to symbolize hatred and bigotry. The University of Texas at Austin has a duty to preserve and study history. But our duty also compels us to acknowledge that those parts of our history that run counter to the university’s core values, the values of our state and the enduring values of our nation do not belong on pedestals in the heart of the Forty Acres. We do not choose our history, but we choose what we honor and celebrate on our campus. As UT students return in the coming week, I look forward to welcoming them here for a new academic year with a recommitment to an open, positive and inclusive learning environment for all.   Sincerely, Gregory L. Fenves President

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