Innovative Educators

Underserved Students: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for Access and Success

Registration Fee: $545.00

Attendees Names and titles*:

Description

Underserved Students: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for Access and Success
Boston, MA
July 12 & 13, 2007

Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Register now, pay by the end of August!

This conference will focus on programs, techniques, and strategies designed to help underserved students transition from high school, persist at institutions of higher ed, and ultimately achieve their educational goals.

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Helpful Resource
Research to Diversify Higher Education: http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/journal_dev_ed_IEoffer.htm

Conference Topics

Helping underserved students enroll and succeed in college
Policies and programs that facilitate transition to college
Improving marketing efforts aimed at underserved students
Assessing policies and practices that affect underserved students
Minority student retention
Breaking down cultural barriers
Innovative admission policies
Targeting at-risk students
Creating an effective mentoring program
Student engagement
Overcoming financial barriers
Designing effective learning environments

Program Agenda

Wednesday, July 11th - (6:00-8:00pm) - Early Registration (Escalator Area on lobby level) and complimentary Welcome Reception

Thursday, July 12th (7:30am-4:45pm)

7:30-8:45: Registration and Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:45-10:30: Facilitating College Access for Underserved Students
10:30-10:45: Refreshment Break (included in registration fee)
10:45-12:15: Holistic/Noncognitive Admissions

12:15-1:30: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:30-2:30: Breakout Session (choose one)

Ensuring that Financial Barriers do not Inhibit Young People's Higher Education Dreams

Using Noncognitive Assessment to Develop and Evaluate Post-Matriculation Programs

2:40-3:40: Breakout Session (choose one)

Reaching Underserved Students: Best Practices in Social Marketing

Parents as Key Influencers in College Access and Success

3:40-3:55: Refreshment Break (included in registration fee)
3:55-4:55: Breakout Session (choose one)

Noncognitive Variables and Retention Programs: Focus on Students of Color

Why should I go to college? Breaking Down Cultural Barriers

5:30-7:30: Informal Exchange i.e., Networking and Complimentary Food and Spirits

Dinner on own

Friday, July 13th (7:30am-5:00pm)

7:15-8:15: Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:15-9:15: Writing a Comprehensive Plan: Let's Get Started!

9:30-10:30: From College Access to College Success

10:30-10:45: Refreshment Break (included in registration fee)
10:45-11:45: Helping Underprepared Adult Students Succeed: A Team Approach

11:45-1:00: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:00-2:00: Breakout Session (choose one)

Real Opportunities for Underprepared Students: How Faculty can Make a Difference in

Their Courses

Access Strategies for ESL Students

2:10-3:10: Breakout Session (choose one)

                   Building a Diverse Faculty and Creating a Positive, Collegial, Teaching Environment
                        Connecting the Dots: Why and How Student Engagement Matters to College and
                        Student Success

3:10-3:25: Refreshment Break (included in registration fee)

3:25-4:25: Breakout Session (choose one)

DEEP Lessons for Promoting Student Success and Educational Effectiveness

Collaborate and Celebrate Student Success: The College Coach Approach

Note: Agenda subject to change

Who Should Attend

- Vice Presidents
- Deans
- Admissions Directors & Staff
- Directors of Diversity
- Enrollment Management Administrators & Staff
- Marketing & Communications Professionals
- Student Services/Affairs Administrators & Staff

- District Administrators

- High School Principals and Vice-Principals

- Post Secondary Enrollment and Concurrent Enrollment Administrators

- High School Guidance Counselors
- Financial Aid Advisors
- Faculty
- Recruiters
- Advisors
- Anyone involved in helping underserved students access higher education and succeed

The 4th registrants is free!

Speakers

Dr. Kathleen F. Gabriel was a high school social science teacher before she became a Resource Specialist for students with learning disabilities. Once she moved to the university setting, she developed an academic support program for at-risk college students. In addition, Dr. Gabriel was a Faculty/TA Development Specialist at the University of Arizona and taught graduate teaching courses. As an educational consultant, she creates and facilitates educational workshops for professors, graduate teaching assistants, academic advisors & counselors, and tutors. Currently, she is also the Director of Disabled Student Services at the College of Siskiyous. Dr. Gabriel lives in Northern California with her husband, Michael. They have three children.

Dr. William E. Sedlacek
Dr. Seclacek is a Professor of Education and Assistant Director of the Counseling Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Iowa State University and a Ph. D. from Kansas State University.

He is senior author of Racism in American education: A model for change (with Brooks), and a measure of racial attitudes, The Situational Attitude Scale (SAS). He authored Beyond the big test: Noncognitive assessment in higher education and has published extensively in professional journals on a wide range of topics including racism, sexism, college admissions, advising, and employee selection.

He has served as editor of Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. Also, he has consulted with more than 300 different organizations, colleges, and universities on interracial and intercultural issues, and has served as an expert witness in race and sex discrimination cases. In 1992, he received the Ralph F. Berdie Memorial Research Award “for research affecting directional changes in the field of counseling and college student personnel work” which was presented by the American Counseling Association (ACA). In 1993, he received the John B. Muir Editor’s Award from the National Association f or College Admission Counseling for his article entitled “Employing noncognitive variables in the admission and retention of nontraditional students.”

Dr. Jillian Kinzie
Jillian Kinzie is Associate Director of the NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice and the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education with a minor in Women's Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to this, she held a visiting faculty appointment in the Higher Education and Student Affairs department at Indiana University, and worked as an administrator in academic and student affairs for many years at several institutions. In 2001, she was awarded a Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty at Indiana University. Kinzie has co-authored a monograph on theories of teaching and learning, and a Lumina Foundation monograph Continuity and Change in College Choice: National Policy, Institutional Practices and Student Decision Making, and has conducted research on women in undergraduate science and retention of underrepresented students. She is co-author of Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter (Jossey-Bass, 2005); One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice (Routledge, 2006), andWhat Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature, a report commissioned by the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (July, 2006).

Karen Cheng

Karen Cheng is the Project Manager for the Pathways to College Network, a national alliance of partners and funders working collaboratively to expand college access and success for underserved students that is managed by TERI (The Education Resources Institute). Karen played a major role in developing College Access Marketing web site launched by Pathways in July 2005, and continues to serve on the College Access Marketing steering committee. Before joining the Pathways Network in June 2003, Karen worked as a project manager in the publishing industry, overseeing the production of major textbooks. She also has worked as a test preparation instructor in Taipei, Taiwan and spent a summer as an Upward Bound counselor in Boston. Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.

Dr. Wayne M. Burton

Dr. Wayne M. Burton assumed the presidency of North Shore Community College in July 2000 following seven years as Dean of the School of Business at Salem State College. The previous twenty-three years, Dr. Burton served in several capacities at the University of New Hampshire, completing his tenure at UNH as Assistant Dean and Director of Accreditation for the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

Dr. Burton served as president of the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation for five years and chaired the Salem Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee for four years. He is a past member of the National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board, and the North Shore Regional Vocational School/Peabody Vocational High School/Essex Agricultural & Technical Institute Merger Steering Committee.

Born and raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, Dr. Burton received his A.B. from Bowdoin College majoring in economics and a minor in government. Following service as a Captain in the U.S. Army in Germany and Vietnam (Bronze Star, 2OLC), he finished his MBA at the University of New Hampshire. He later earned his Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

He has prior service on the Governor’s Regional Economic Development Committee in Massachusetts, and in New Hampshire as a director for the New Hampshire Port Authority. He served two terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, the second term as a member of the leadership team during which time he was named "Legislator of the Year" for his service on behalf of working men and women.

Dr. Heather C. Smith

Dr. Smith is the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA. She received an associate’s degree from Chipola Jr. College, B.S. degree from Worcester State College, an MBA from Anna Maria College and her Ed.D in Educational Leadership from Johnson and Wales University. She has worked in Higher Education for over 25 years prior to moving to Bridgewater she had been at the Community College of Rhode Island for 15 years as the Dean of Enrollment Services.

Dr. Smith has extensive experience at both public and private two-year and four-year institutions in the fields of enrollment management, admissions, financial aid, and developing the delivery of student services and changes in the organizational structures to meet changing needs of students.

She was appointed by the President of Bridgewater to Co-Chair the newly established college wide Cultural Diversity Counsel. In addition Heather has made numerous presentations at professional association meetings and is a Past- President of AACRAO.

Rich Sanders

CDR Rich Sanders is the Chemistry Section Chief at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. A graduate of this military college of 1000 students, he served in two operational Coast Guard tours before returning as a member of the professional military faculty. Rich’s prime focus is the cadets. He teaches freshmen to seniors and supervises student research. In addition to teaching and administrative responsibilities, he is the director of Cadet Summer Sail Training. In this program students hone their sailing, seamanship, situational awareness, and leadership skills aboard Coast Guard Academy yachts. As a military professor, CDR Sanders is recognized by this service as a champion of diversity, associated best practices, and in particular for his dedication to underserved students at the Academy as well as prospective students.

Melissa Sañez, Program Manager
A native of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, Melissa holds a B.S. from Syracuse University in Speech Communication and a M.A. from Emerson College in Journalism. Melissa’s professional experience combines a deep interest in family outreach, college admissions and financial aid advising. In addition, she has put her journalism skills to work in stints with NECN-TV and WERS 88.9 FM. In 2002, Melissa joined ACCESS as a financial aid advisor, and two years later was promoted to the role of Program Manager. In this capacity, Melissa provides programmatic leadership to our growing advising staff as well as maintaining our school-based partnerships with the Boston Public Schools and numerous other community organizations across Boston.

Adam Reinke, Early Awareness Coordinator
Adam graduated from Marquette University with degrees in Political Science and Secondary Education. After graduation, Adam moved to Massachusetts and joined AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America). Over the next two years, Adam worked with the Massachusetts Campus Compact and served multiple college campuses throughout the state to engage students, faculty, and staff to be more socially responsible to the community that surrounds their campuses. Adam is extremely passionate about the field of college access, and is excited to build the Early Awareness Program.

Deborah J. Hirsch

Dr. Deborah Hirsch is the Executive Director of the Boston Higher Education Partnership, a consortium of 33 public and independent colleges and universities and the Boston Public Schools, based at TERI (The Education Resources Institute). Previously she was Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Hirsch recently served as a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s higher education task force, and has been a member of national working groups on the future of higher education, service-learning and civic engagement and on numerous local, regional and national boards and committees. Dr. Hirsch writes and consults on a range of higher education issues including college access and success and civic engagement.

Mandy Savitz-Romer

Dr. Mandy Savitz-Romer is the Associate Director of the Boston Higher Education Partnership. Prior to her work at the BHEP, Savitz-Romer was a school counselor at Boston Public Schools’ Brighton High School, where she was charged with leading the guidance department. Also an adjunct faculty member in the Developmental Studies and Counseling Department at Boston University, Savitz-Romer teaches courses in school counseling and postsecondary planning. Her work in promoting academic achievement for Boston students has also included directing various enrichment programs for middle school, high school and first-year college students. Her research interests include college access and retention for urban students; early college planning and awareness; school counselor development and school-university partnerships.

Donna Connolly

Donna Connolly has been an advisor in the Educational Talent Search (ETS) program through the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Inc. for the past 10 years. She is based at South High Community School in Worcester, MA. ETS is a federally funded Title IV program that serves first generation, low income students.

Donna has a BA in Social and Rehabilitation Services from Assumption College and an MS from Worcester State College in Human Service Management. She is also a board member with the Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association.

Taryn Tomkins

Taryn has extensive experience working with underserved youth. She began her career working in the field of mental health, working with teenagers in the residential and hospital settings. She obtained her Masters in Education with a focus in School Counseling and provided therapy in an outpatient setting. This is Taryn's sixth year working in the GEAR UP Program through the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Inc., providing early college planning and career awareness to students from grades 7-12. She also teaches college transition classes to freshman and sophomores at Nichols College.

James A. Boyle

James Boyle is the President of College Parents of America, a national membership organization providing advocacy on behalf of and resources for current and future college parents. James A. Boyle was named president of this group upon its founding in September 2003.

Prior to this role, Boyle served as vice president of brand marketing and corporate communications for Sallie Mae. Previously, Boyle worked for in the media industry, including a decade as a marketing and PR executive for Discovery Communications.

Boyle began his career as a press secretary on Capitol Hill. A native of Detroit, Boyle is a graduate of Northwestern University, thanks to a combination of Pell Grants, institution-based aid, a National Merit Scholarship, work-study and federal student loans.

In his College Parents of America role, Boyle has testified twice before Congress, and before the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education. He has also discussed higher education issues on CNBC, CNN, Maryland Public Television, NBC News and National Public Radio.

Hotel, Travel and City Attractions

Hyatt Regency Cambridge - Conference Location
Minutes from Boston, the Hyatt Regency Cambridge hotel is located along the scenic Charles River overlooking the Boston skyline and is in the midst of two uncommonly exciting cities, Boston and Cambridge. Each exhibits a unique blend of old world charm coupled with youthful, contemporary sophistication. Cambridge is the spirit side of Boston and just a bridge away on the historic side.

Website: Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Address: 575 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02139

Conference Room Rate: $179.00/night, single or double (regularly $225.00)
The Innovative Educators Group rate of $179 will be available one day pre & 1 day post meeting dates, based upon availability of the Hotel.

Room Block Dates: July 11^th and 12th (Based on availability, you can receive the group rate on July 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th also.)

Parking: $28/day

Reservations:

Online: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/20d3bb24
Phone: Toll Free: 1-888-421-1442
Non - Toll Free: 1-402-592-6464
Customers With Disabilities: 1-888-543-1818

Cambridge View Guestrooms
Our 400 square foot standarad guestroom provides a comfortable working and leisure atmosphere. Each room features the Hyatt Grand Bed with ultra-plush pillows, the softest of sheeting, a thick down blanket - all piled atop an irresistible pillow-top mattress, plus all standard guestroom amenities.

Rate Guaranteed Until: June 22, 2007 (NOTE: As of June 26th there are still some rooms left at the group rate. We suggest you make your reservation as soon as possible. Be sure to mention Innovative Educators.)

Amenities

Coffee Maker
Hairdryer
Large Work/Desk Area
Voicemail
In-Room Pay Movies
Two Telephones with Message Light
Additional Pillow and Blanket in Closet
Crib/Rollaway (upon request)
Full Bath Amenities: Shampoo, Conditioner, Shower Cap, Bath & Hand Soap
Video Account Review
Video Messages
Iron/Ironing Board
Wireless or High Speed Internet (usage fee)
Computer Data Port
TV with Remote Control
Cable Movie Channels
Individual Climate Control
AM/FM Alarm Clock Radio
Electronic Door Lock
Turndown (upon request)
Video Checkout

Flight Information

Attendees should arrive at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

Shuttle: Zebra Shuttle

Reserve at least 48 hours before your flight arrives.

Reserve online http://www.zebrashuttle.com/ or by calling 1-800-242-0064.

Regular rates: $21/1 passenger; $32/2 passengers; $43/3 passengers

Super-Saver rates (must reserve at least 2 weeks ahead of time and have minimum of 2 passengers): $28/2 passengers; $39/3 passengers

Taxi: A taxi takes approximately 30 minutes and will cost $30-$35.

Cambridge Attractions

http://www.cambridge-ma.worldweb.com/SightsAttractions/

Boston Attractions

http://www.usatourist.com/english/places/massachusetts/boston.html

Cancellation Policy

Please submit an e-mail to us. All cancellations must be received in writing prior to July 1, 2007, and will be subject to a $100 processing fee per registrant. Registrants who cancel after July 1, 2007 will not be eligible for a refund. However, you may transfer your registration to another individual without penalty or use your conference credit towards another IE event. In case of conference cancellation, Innovative Educators’ liability is limited to refund of the conference registration fee only.