BPLI Parent Engagement Without Borders Roundtable Interview with Incoming Officers of the BPLI Season 2 (2022), Spanish Language *This segment is date/time stamped: June 24th, 2022; 10:45AM PST The importance of family involvement in the education system in the United States is an essential part in achieving the academic goals of students. La importancia del involucramiento familiar, en el sistema de educación en los estados unidos es una parte esencial, en el logro de las metas académicas de los estudiantes. The education system strives for parents to be involved in their children's education from early childhood through high school. Therefore, districts and schools offer alternatives where parents have an active participation in their children's school area. There is still a need to continue looking for effective strategies to get more parents involved. Statistics indicate the low percentage of Latino students who make it to college and the large number of Latino students who drop out (or are pushed out) of school. El sistema educativo se esfuerza por que los padres participen en la educación de sus hijos desde la primera infancia hasta la escuela secundaria. Por ello, los distritos y escuelas ofrecen alternativas donde los padres de familia tienen una participación activa en el ámbito escolar de sus hijos. Todavía existe la necesidad de seguir buscando estrategias efectivas para involucrar a más padres. Las estadísticas indican el bajo porcentaje de estudiantes latinos que llegan a la universidad y la gran cantidad de estudiantes latinos que abandonan (o son expulsados) de la ...
CSUSB ScholarWorks is an open access institutional repository showcasing and preserving the research, scholarship, and publications of California State University, San Bernardino members. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to upload completed works to ScholarWorks as it is a permanent digital archive and showcase that makes the intellectual output of the CSUSB community publicly available to the wider world. By highlighting the scholarly and professional activities of our students, staff and faculty, CSUSB ScholarWorks' rich repository encourages new ideas, preserves past knowledge, and fosters new connections to improve human and social conditions. This segment features an interview with Eric Milenkiewicz, who as the University Archivist is responsible for the selection, appraisal, acquisition, arrangement, and description of library archival collections including historical materials originating from CSUSB. Interview discussion revolves around why upload your work to CSUSB ScholarWorks, the advantages of long-term preservation, and greater visibility to a global audience - increasing readership, citation counts, and impact in one's field. Host: - Dr. Enrique G. Murillo, Jr., Professor of Education, Executive Director & Founder of LEAD Projects, and Faculty Director of the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB Interviewee: - Eric Milenkiewicz, University Archivist, and LEAD Projects Postproduction and Distribution Consultant, CSUSB This segment is date/time stamped: September 21, 2021, 9AM ...
Mily Treviño-Sauceda is vice-president and co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Inc., a national farmworker women’s alliance representing 15 farmworker organizations and groups. She sits on numerous state and national boards, state and national advisory councils and task forces representing Latinas, the farmworker community and immigrant women in general on health, violence against women, labor and women rights, education, environmental and gender issues. She is an advisory MAPA member to National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). Since 2015, Mily has been a National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) member to EPA. She also sits on the boards of California Latina for Reproductive Justice and the Rural Coalition. She consults for and with various statewide and national organizations that focus on social, environmental, worker justice, reproductive justice, and violence against women issues. She also provides technical assistance and capacity building to farmers that are socially disadvantaged such as Pequeños Agricultores de California and the National Hmong American Farmers to ensure socially disadvantaged farmers members are trained in business and labor regulations. In 2018, she joined the fourth Cohort of the Movement to End Violence under the Novo Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including “100 Heroines of the World” in 1998; Sister of Fire Award in 2003; the Ford Foundation and NYU award “Leadership for a Changing World” in 2004. She was recognized twice in 2006, by People Magazine. She was honored by Líderes Campesinas in California for her 30+ year’s distinguished leadership in 2009, the EEOC Community Service Award in 2011, the Cesar Chavez Legacy Award, March 2015; and honored by Farmworker Justice in Oct 2015. She was honored by Latino Justice, PRLDEF, as a Latina Justice Leader, on Latina ...
