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CSUDH President Meets with White House Officials to Discuss Education Initiatives for Underserved Students

March 12, 2012

Reprinted with permission from the California State University External Relations office

CSU Dominguez Hills President Mildred Garcia (top left of center) at a meeting with officials with the White House’s initiatives for under-served communities (right) and other CSU presidents and vice chancellors (left).

White House education leaders met with a group of California State University (CSU) presidents and officials to discuss CSU’s initiatives to improve college access and graduation of African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino and Tribal students.

The meeting, led by CSU Dominguez Hills President Mildred Garcia, a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, was held March 1 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

CSU officials discussed programs developed by the Chancellor’s Office to reach out to underserved communities. Among programs discussed were the partnership with more than 100 churches to enhance college awareness among African American families, the annual Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) training of nearly 10,000 predominantly Latino parents of students attending middle schools served by each CSU campus, the partnership with Univision to produce the “Es el Momento” education fair for the Latino community, the college fairs for specific subgroups of Asian/Pacific Islander families, and the outreach to Tribal communities to improve college participation of Native American students.

(from left) CSU officials Garrett Ashley, Ben Quillian and Mildred Garcia; White House representatives Marco Davis, Jose Rico, and Roberto Rodriguez; Jorge Haynes with CSU initiatives for underserved communities.

Roberto Rodriguez, special assistant to the president for education policy spoke about the Obama Administration’s Education Blueprint, a document that links the strength of the American economy to the education system.

The CSU initiatives for underserved communities are programmed by CSU External Relations and match similar initiatives developed by President Obama to increase the number of Americans who are college graduates.

To learn more about the CSU initiatives for underserved populations, visit the CSU External Relations Community Partnerships web page.

 

 

 

 

– Photos courtesy CSU External Affairs office

 

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Academic Affairs, Administration, Communications, Political Science

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