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HBLI
The Hispanic Border Leadership Institute
Supported in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Dedicated to Improving the Education of Hispanics in the U.S.
Vol. 3, No. 2 The HBLI Family Bulletin October, 1999
From the Executive Director....
We are in the middle of planning two important gatherings. The first gathering we have planned is an Internship Summit of the eighteen doctoral fellows from Arizona State University and New Mexico State University. The summit will take place November 3, 4, and 5 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The purpose of the internship summit is threefold:
1. To have the nine fellows who participated in the internship experience last summer provide an analytical perspective on it.
2. To consider restructuring the internship experience and sites for Summer 2000.
3. To help the nine fellows who will be interning this summer identify their internship experience for Summer 2000.
Two field supervisors will help to strengthen and examine the internship experience. The internship summit meeting will also incorporate an international component. That is, fellows will go over the Mexican border and engage with education officials in Ciudad Juarez.
Also being planned is the HBLI Annual Meeting. The Coordinating Council, the National Advisory Panel members, the thirty doctoral fellows, campus directors, and central staff will meet in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December 2, 3, and 4. The program focus promises to be informative and stimulating, that is, "Policy Leadership: Multiple Voices in the Shaping of Policy." Please see the reverse side for details on the program.
HBLI recently submitted a planning proposal to the Kellogg Foundation seeking ENLACE funds. Our proposal will allow HBLI to expand
and include community based organizations, K-12 school districts, and business partners. Through study teams led by HBLI doctoral fellows, the current "pipeline" policies in the four border states will be examined. We will then recommend policy changes to Hispanic legislators, school board members, and community college trustees and work with them to increase the graduation of Latino students from K-12 and higher education institutions.
Lastly, a number of our doctoral fellows will be participating on programs at international, national, and state meetings. In our November issue of our newsletter, Adelante, we will highlight who they are and where they will be presenting. Of course, we will share information about the Internship Summit and HBLI annual meeting as well.
Until next time,
Saludos,
Leonard A. Valverde
NEWS AT SWTSU
Dr. Jaime Chahin is currently working on an article based on his recent work with databases of school board members. He has formed a database of Hispanic school board members which is used for recruiting members for the annual HBLI School Board Leadership Seminar. This database of nearly a thousand names is formed from other school board databases from the five states the consortium covers (CA, AZ, NM, TX, and CO). The article addresses issues of governance and leadership in the next millenium for Latinos in public education, higher education, and at community colleges.