Four days of events for the Latino Education and Advocacy Days at CSUSB

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The fifth annual Latino Education and Advocacy Days at Cal State San Bernardino has been expanded to four days of events focusing on issues affecting Latinos including education, parenting, family and social activism.

The four events feature a free education webinar on Wednesday, March 26; the fifth annual LEAD summit on Thursday, March 27; the spring meeting of the Southern California Consortium of Hispanic Serving Institutions on Friday, March 28; and the inaugural conference of the Binational Parent Leadership Institute on Saturday, March 29.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday’s events are free and will be held at Cal State San Bernardino’s Santos Manuel Student Union Events Center and video will be streamed live.

On Wednesday, March 26, a free webinar will focus on the education impact of the PBS series, “Latino Americans.” The series provides a wide array of bilingual lesson plans, activities, videos and other resources. The webinar will begin at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, (5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). Register for the event at Latino Americans Educator Webinar event page. The first 50 to register will receive a complete set of the bilingual historical classroom resource, La Crónica.

Thursday, March 27 will feature the fifth annual Latino Education Days Summit. This year’s theme for the all-day conference is “Latino Male Crisis in the Educational Pipeline.”

The conference will feature three keynote speakers: Jose Angel Gutiérrez, one of the founding fathers of the Chicano Rights Movement; Sean Arce, a Tucson, Ariz., educator whose Mexican-American Studies Program was banned by the Tucson Unified School District; and Jerry Tello, director of the National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of fatherhood, family strengthening and culturally based violence prevention and intervention issues.

The LEAD Summit’s honorary chair or Padrino de Honor is civil rights icon Julian Nava, the first Mexican American to serve as U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Nava was a civil rights activist during the height of the Chicano Movement, and he was the first Mexican American to be elected to the school board of the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1967.

The list of events for the 2014 LEAD summit program is available online. The conference will be hosted again by CSUSB’s College of Education. Visit theLEAD Summit website for more information.

The summit will be webcast simultaneously to more than 1,500 viewing sites in the United States and in 32 countries, including Mexico, Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Iceland, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain and South Korea. The webcast is courtesy of LatinoGraduate.net.

On Friday, March 28, the Southern California Consortium of Hispanic Serving Institutions will hold their spring 2014 meeting at CSUSB from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The consortium meets twice a year as part of its commitment to preparing Latino students for tomorrow’s challenges through collaboration and leveraging institutional strengths and resources.

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are defined in federal law as accredited and degree-granting public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education with 25 percent or more total undergraduate Hispanic full-time equivalent student enrollment.

The consortium provides a cooperative vehicle to enhance the success of member institutions in reaching their individual and collective goals. Visit theSouthern California Consortium of Hispanic Serving Institutions website for more information on the consortium.

Saturday, March 29, will see the inaugural conference of the Binational Parent Leadership Institute, which was created to provide parents with leadership training to become more involved and effective in the decision-making process in their area schools and communities at both the local and regional level.

The conference, which will be from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the CSUSB Santos Manuel Student Union Events Center will have workshops addressing advanced parent leadership skills and seminars with renowned speakers from California and Mexico.

The Binational Parent Leadership Institute is the result of an alliance with the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino and Cal State San Bernardino’s Latino Education and Advocacy Days organization.

Visit the Binational Parent Leadership Institute conference website at or call Tammy Garcia at (909) 889-7846 or Linda Miranda at (909) 476-6165.

For more information and to register for the conference, go to the LEAD Summit website or contact Enrique Murillo Jr. at (909) 537-5632.

For more information about Cal State San Bernardino, contact the university’s Office of Public Affairs at (909) 537-5007. Visit its news website atnews.csusb.edu

See also “LEAD launches new institute to provide leadership training for parents,” ”LEAD 2014 Summit to feature three keynote speakers,” and “Pioneer Latino leader Julian Nava named honorary chair of CSUSB’s LEAD summit.”