• MIP Mini Grant Presentations. Friday, May 16, 2008, 2:30-4:30 in the PCR. Please rsvp to Sue Homer, shomer@ccsf.edu

• Interested in joining MIP? Please contact Sue Homer, shomer@ccsf.edu.

• Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy & Culture, presents "Creating a Chance to Dream: Student Achievement and Critical Multicultural Education" on Wednesday, April 9, 1-2 pm in the Diego Rivera Theater.

This event is open to all students, faculty, classified, and administrators.

Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy & Culture at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, School of Education,
Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. In her talk
she will be emphasizing the experience of students as they navigate an
education system that often isn't helpful, usually isn't culturally
relevant, and frequently negates the very skills and abilities the
students bring to the table.

Instructors are encouraged to bring their classes and/or to create
assignments that encourage students to attend the event.

If you are planning on bringing your class, or if you have any
questions, please contact Hal Huntsman (452-5261; shuntsma@ccsf.edu)

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MIP participants and Child Development Instructors:

Please join us for a more personal workshop with Sonia Nieto, directly
after her talk at Diego Rivera.
The workshop will be held in the Pierre Coste Room, Wednesday, April
9, 2:30 - 4:30.
During this second portion of the afternoon with her, we have asked
Dr. Nieto to focus on how teachers, counselors, and librarians can
maintain their passion and energy for their work in the face of all
the demands on us. She is also open to specific questions from your
practices.

Please join us!

RSVP to Hal Huntsman (452-5261; shuntsma@ccsf.edu) by Friday, April 4.

• Welcome to the inaugural issue of the MIP Newsletter, March 2008.

• Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D. presents "Say it Loud .... We are Proud!: Psychology, Education & Racial Identity " on Friday, February 29th, 1-2pm, VA 114.

  
  * Assistant Vice Chancellor for Counseling and Health Services at University of California, Irvine (UCI)
  * Director of the Counseling Center and adjunct faculty member at UCI
  * Author of Counseling African-Descent People: Raising the Bar of Practitioner Competence and Co-Author, "The Psychology of Blacks: An African American Perspective" and author of many other books and articles on multicultural education and counseling.
  

  "In consultations, public addresses, and television appearances throughout the United States, Dr. Parham has addressed such issues as multicultural counseling, counseling African Americans, cultural competence, youth and violence, coping with stress, characteristics of exceptional people, multicultural education, managing a diverse workforce, effective communications, developing effective management & supervisory skills, managing people, conflict resolution and team building." www.chs.uci.edu

   

  Friday, February 29, 2008
  1-2PM
  Visual Arts 114

  All students, staff,faculty, and administrators are welcome!

  Presented by the Multicultural Infusion Project and African American Scholastic Program and CalWORKS.

  Contact: Cynthia Obenchain, Joan C. Vitorelo, or Tessa Henderson-Brown

Dr. Parham will continue with a dialogue with Counseling and MIP/CCN participants from 230p-430p in the PCR. Please RSVP to Lynda Hirose if you plan to attend the dialogue.

• MIP Blog. The blog is a rolling list of resources and links members of CCSF's MIP community might find useful. Check it out at http://ccsfmip.wordpress.com/. If you are aware of other resources or anything else that should be here, let us know and we'll link to them. We encourage you to comment about what's helpful (or not); help us make this an increasingly valuable resource for our community!
  
  Visit the blog to read the article, Critical race media literacy: Challenging deficit discourse about Chicanas/os, by our upcoming speaker, Dr. Tara Yosso.
  

• Multimedia Presentation by Kip Fulbeck, "What are You? Exploring Multi-racial Identity Through the Arts". Friday, November 16, 2007, from 1:00-2:30pm in the Diego Rivera Theatre.

Kip Fulbeck, an award winning filmmaker, multiracial advocate, and author of "Part Asian, 100% Hapa", and "Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography" centered his presentation on the idea of identity, how we are perceived and how we define ourselves. Read more on Kip Fulbeck at CCSF, and viisit his website: www.seaweedproductions.com

• Presentation by Dr. Tara Yosso on Challenging racism along the Chicana/o educational pipeline. September 21, 2007, from 2-3 pm in V115.
  
  At a college-wide presentation, Dr. Tara Yosso, Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara spoke about "Challenging racism along the Chicana/o educational pipeline." Dr. Yosso's book "Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline" analyzes Chicana/o experiences navigating through structures, practices, and discourses of racism from elementary through graduate school. Her current research focuses on "Latina/os in school according to Hollywood. " Read more about Dr. Yosso's talk at CCSF. To see her exact words, check out this slide from her powerpoint
  presentation.

• Check out this cool issue of On Campus with Women
  
  Note especially the article by Kathleen Wong (Lau).
  
  On Campus with Women (OCWW), sponsored by AAC&U's Program on the Status and Education of Women, provides readers with the most up-to-date information on women in higher education. It focuses on women's leadership, the campus climate, curriculum and pedagogy, and new research and data on women.

• ZNet Commentary: Don't Know Much About (Black) History
  by Tim Wise
  Philadelphia is the first American city to require thath high school students pass a course in African American history for graduation, which has been met with uproar from white students and parents. Think it wouldn't happen in San Francisco? Think again...
  
  
• Diversity Appraisal Report
  Good news and bad news
  Diversity, like many of the high goals to which organizations aspire, is as difficult to achieve as it is rich and rewarding to experience. Its an ever-evolving but fine and necessary cause.
  
  
• Newsletter
  From the California Community College Chancellor's Office Family
  and Consumer Science Collaborative Grant (#04-160)
  Emphasizing and promoting our interconnection to one another is essential to our efforts to renew the commitment necessary to build a more dynamic, accessible, and effective community college system.
  
  
• Assessment of Diversity in America's Teaching Force
  Presented by the National Collaborative on Diversity in the Teaching Force
  In late 2001, Congress passed the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The goal of this legislation is to improve the academic performance of all students, while simultaneously closing achievement gaps that persist between students from different ethnic groups and economic backgrounds.
  

• Workshop Handouts