CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS
ASSOCIATION
2002 CONFERENCE
"CLOSING THE EDUCATIONAL GAP"

April 4-6, 2002
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Long Beach, California

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

12:00 Noon - 5:00 pm

• Registration

12:00 Noon - 5:00 pm

• Vendor Exhibits

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

• Opening Keynote Address:

Dr. Vincent Tinto, Chair of the Higher Education Program and Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University "Promoting Sucsess Among the Students We Serve"

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

• Pre-Conference Strategic Planning Sessions

• EOP Directors
• CSU and EOP Outreach Directors / Personnel
• Summer Bridge Coordinators
• Federal Programs - CAMP / HEP / TRIO / WESTOP
• Students and Staff

5:00 pm

• No Host Dinner

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

• No Host Social Hour for Pre-Conference Strategic Planning Sessions Participants only. 
• Entertainment: Herencia Mexicana Mariachi

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

• Dinner meeting for Pre-Conference Strategic Planning Sessions Participants only - Topics: Outreach Coordination, Special Admits Status, and EOP / TRIO and Federal Programs Collaborations.

7:30 am - 5:00 pm

• Vendor Exhibits

7:30 am - 5:00 pm

• Registration

7:30 am - 8:30 am

• Continental Breakfast
• Entertainment: Harpist-Javier Godinez

8:30 am - 8:45 am

• Conference Welcome
• Mr. Edward Pohlert, Chair, EOP Directors Association
• The Honorable Beverly O' Neill, Mayor, Long Beach
• Dr. Robert C. Maxson, President, California State University, Long Beach

8:45 am - 10:00 am

• Opening Presentation

"Closing the Gap: A Quirk in the Education Pipeline Concept?"

This presentation will analyze data through three different views: California census data, Department of Education K-12 data, and CSU system retention data. Desired Outcome: To identify groups of students (e.g., males, females, Chicano-Latinos, African-American, Southeast Asian, and the like) who have the lowest rates of graduation from high school and from college.

Mr. Alan Nishio, Associate Vice President for Student Services, California State University, Long Beach

Dr. Charles Ratliff, Consultant, Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education - Kindergarten Through University

10:15 am - 11:45 am

• Workshops I and Roundtable Dialogues

12:00 Noon - 1:45 pm

• Luncheon
• Welcome: Mr. Douglas Robinson, Vice-President for Student Services, California State University, Long Beach
• Keynote speaker: Ms. Phylis Hart, Executive Director, The California Achievment Council
• Entertainment: American Indian Dancers

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

• Remarks: Congresswoman Hilda Solis, 31st District of California

Panel and Conference Dialogue: The critical role educational equity programs must play in local, state, and federal policy development related to access and equity for low income first generation and underrepresented students.

• Panelists: Congresswoman Hilda Solis, 31st District of California

Ms. Judy Osman, Associate Director, Student Academic Support, California State University,  Office of the Chancellor

Dr. Fernando Hernandez, Chair
Educational Foundations and Interdivisional Studies Charter College of Education California State University, Los Angeles

Mr. David Sandoval, Director, Educational Opportunity Program, California State University, Los Angeles

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

• Workshops II

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

• No-Host Reception with entertainment: Shedrick &Leilani

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

• Dinner
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. James Manseau-Sauceda, Director, University Multicultural Center, Professor, Communication Studies, California State University, Long Beach
• Entertainment: Jose Tanaka, Flamenco Show

9:00 pm - 1:00 am

• Celebration event: Dance (Oldies, Musica Mexicana, R&B, Soft Rock, Karaoke)

7:30 am - 12:00 Noon

• Registration

7:30 am - 8:30 am

• Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:00 am

• Plenary Session: Dr Tomas Arciniega, President, California State University, Bakersfield

10:00 am - 10:15 am

• Break

10:00 am - 12:00 Noon

• California Middle and High School Student College Recruitment Fair*

*This event is free to all middle and high school students, counselors, parents, guardians, and university personnel.

10:15 am - 11:45 am

• Workshops II and Roundtable Dialogues
• Open Dialogue and Strategy Sessions: Title Wave II: Impaction, EOP Outreach Funds: Outcomes Report, EOP and Summer Bridge Funding: Strategies for Increasing the EOP departmental allocations, Tri-Semester and the impact on Summer Bridge Programs, and EO 665: The Impact on EOP Students.

12:00Noon - 2:30pm

• Lunch
• EOP Student Panel
• Summary of Conference Highlights/Accomplishments/Acknowledgements
• Free Prize Drawings, T-Shirt Exchanges
• Closing Remarks: Mr. Edward Pohlert, Chair, EOP Directors Association