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“A Longitudinal Perspective on the Adaptation of Newcomer Immigrant Youth”
A
talk by Dr. Carola Suárez-Orozco, Professor of Applied Psychology and
Co-Director of Immigration Studies at New York University
When: Thursday, April 9th, 5:00-7:00 pm
Where: Grace Dodge Hall Room 179, Teachers College, Columbia University
Professor
Suárez-Orozco received an American Psychological Association
Presidential Citation for her seminal work on the cultural psychology
of immigration in 2006. She was inducted into the New York Academy of
Sciences in 2007. She publishes widely in the areas of cultural
psychology, academic engagement, immigrant families and youth, and
identity formation. She is the author of Children of Immigration (with
Marcelo Suárez- Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2001) and
Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation
Among Latino Adolescents (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Stanford
University Press, 1995). They are also the co-editors of the six volume
series entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The New Immigration
(with Desirée Qin-Hillard, Routledge, 2001) as well as The New
Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Routledge, 2005). Learning a
New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (with Marcelo
Suárez-Orozco & Irina Todorova,) based on the findings from the
LISA study was released by the Harvard University Press in early 2008.
Dr.
Suárez-Orozco has published on such topics as academic engagement, the
role of the "social mirror" in identity formation, immigrant family
separations, the role of mentors in facilitating positive development
in immigrant youth, the gendered experiences of immigrant youth among
many others.
“The Latino Educational Crisis”
A talk by Dr. Patricia Gándara
When: Thursday, February 26th, 5:00-7:00 pm
Where: Grace Dodge Hall Room 179, Teachers College, Columbia University
Professor Gándara is co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on educational equity and access for low income and ethnic minority students, language policy, and the education of Mexican origin youth. She has just completed a study (with R. Rumberger) entitled Resource Needs for California's English Learners, as part of the statewide adequacy project funded by four major foundations. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including, "Understanding the Latino Education Gap, Why Latinos Don't Go to College", with Harvard University Press.
Sponsored by: The Latina/o and Latin American Education Faculty Working Group, The Working Group on Latin American Migration at Teachers College and The Center for Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University.
"Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Obstacles: Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Poverty through Post-Secondary Education"
A talk by Dr. Gil ConchasWhen: Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, 5:00-7:00 pm
Where: Grace Dodge Hall Room 179, Teachers College, Columbia University
Gilberto Q. Conchas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, UC Irvine
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Conchas is a Senior Program Officer, U.S. Special Initiatives, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1999 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Conchas has pursued three broad areas of study in the sociology of education that include urban education, immigration and education, and social policy and reform. His work has appeared in numerous academic journals that include the Harvard Education Review, Teachers College Record, New Directions for Youth Development, the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, and Research in Sociology of Education. He most recently published The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth (2006) and Small School and Urban Youth: Size, Culture and Personalization (2008).Sponsored by: The Latino/a and Latin American Education Faculty Working Group at Teachers College and The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University
