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Cambio Center News - August 2015
In this newsletter: Conference Update, Visioning, Student Fellows, Language Services Program, Updates from Fellows, Other Opportunities (this week!), News to Use, and much more.
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Conference Update
The
2015 Cambio de Colores Conference
was an energetic gathering of 165+ participants from 17 states in the
Midwest, South and US coasts. The conference boasted 50 presentations
and four plenary sessions, five site visits to Kansas City
organizations, and a two-person play. Attendees included Extension
faculty from several institutions (24%), non-governmental organization
employees (21%), university faculty (20%), educators and
administrators (12%), and other sectors including students, staff, and
government employees.
Visioning
To continue developing the Cambio Center’s plan for the next 10 years,
Interim Director Stephen Jeanetta and Coordinator Lindsey Saunders
have been meeting with Faculty Fellows from across campus. They hope
to complete these individual meetings in the coming month and share
results with the Fellows this semester, as a basis for a strategic
plan for the center.
Student Fellows!
The Cambio Center is expanding its Student Fellows program. Any
graduate student whose work is related to the Cambio Center mission is
invited to become a Student Fellow. Interested students should submit
a CV and/or short statement about how their interests connect with
Cambio. Student fellows are matched with a Faculty Fellow mentor. We
are developing a program of activities to support their work,
including networking and research opportunities. Please recommend and
refer students to join!
Cambio Center’s “Language Services Program”
The Language Services Program provides translation, interpretation,
transcription, and editing services in Spanish and English languages.
Our goal is to provide a service to our state to enable institutions,
organizations, and others to effectively communicate with Spanish
language audiences. We work with native bilingual speakers to ensure
that our translations sound natural and accurately communicate
information. Contact us if you have any questions.
Updates from Fellows
Irma Arteaga (Truman School) was recently awarded a
grant and a contract to evaluate early childhood programs in the U.S.
and Latin America. Congrats, Irma!
More Info.
Kathryn Chval (Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, College of
Education)
Recent publications:
Chval, K. B., Pinnow, R. J., & Thomas, A. (2014). Learning how to
focus on language while teaching mathematics to English language
learners: a case study of Courtney. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 27(1), 103-127.
Pinnow, R. J., & Chval, K. B. (2015). “How much You wanna bet?”: Examining the role of positioning in the development of L2 learner interactional competencies in the content classroom. Linguistics and Education, 30, 1-11.
Lisa Dorner (Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis)
recently received tenure and also was recently awarded funding for a
research project.
Principal Investigator. (2015-2016).
School Board Members and Policymaking in Changing Communities. University of Missouri Research Board. $53,450.
Objectives: Immigrants to the U.S. are settling outside of
traditional urban gateways and Missouri is no exception: there are
over 30,000 English Learners (ELs) from immigrant families in rural,
suburban, and urban schools. However, research has not explored how
school leaders in new immigrant contexts understand demographic change
and make policies that respond to it (Turner, 2015). This project will
examine school board members’ “sensemaking,” or how knowledge,
beliefs, and contexts shape educational policy decisions in new
immigrant communities. The research questions are: (1) What do school
board members know about immigration, ELs, and EL program options? (2)
What are their beliefs about immigrants, ELs, and language learning?
(3) How do their contexts shape their knowledge, beliefs, and
decision-making? Specific objectives of this study are to (1) refine
theories of educational policymaking by adding the missing component
of school board sensemaking and (2) collect pilot data for a larger
study.
Approach: The project uses a descriptive case study design
(Yin, 2003) to build theory from different contexts across Missouri.
Data will include 10 focus groups (n=50-70) and a statewide survey
(n=572).
Significance: Studying the ways that school board members
understand and respond to demographic change has both practical and
theoretical significance. First, findings will inform future
professional development for school boards, via a partnership with the
Missouri School Board Association; it also meets the University of
Missouri’s land-grant mission to “improve lives, communities and
economies” through research. Second, this study will advance the field
of educational policy by attending to a new focus on school boards,
which are rarely studied. Examining how board members’ knowledge,
beliefs, and changing community contexts shape their policy decisions
about immigrants is especially important as immigration reaches nearly
every corner of the country.
Lisa Flores (Educational and Counseling Psychology)
Dr. Flores was recently named a fellow for the American Psychological
Association in Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology).
Nadia Navarrete Tindall (Lincoln University)
Nadia is hosting several upcoming events:
Dining Wild 2015: A Native Plants Program Experience At Lincoln
University
Lincoln University Cooperative Extension’s (LUCE) Native Plants
Program (NPP) hosts their second Dining Wild experience on Saturday,
August 29, 2015. It will be held at the Scruggs University Center on
the Lincoln University campus from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event
includes native plant garden tours, educational exhibits, a social
mixer, a guest speaker and dinner. The main goal of Dining Wild is to
promote native edible plants that have the potential to be specialty
crops.
Extending the Growing Season Workshop in Haywood City Community Center on September 11, 2015, 9am-2:30pm.
Cambio Center in the News
Illumination magazine explores change in Milan, Missouri, and the Cambio Center's
contributions.
The nation’s metropolitan areas have long traditions of receiving
immigrants, but it’s a new experience for Milan and other rural
Midwestern towns, says MU’s Stephen Jeanetta, associate extension
professor in rural sociology. Jeanetta ticks off a laundry list of
challenges...
See more at: http://illumination.missouri.edu/s15/happy_together
Other Opportunities
Conflicts over Land Use and Nature in Central America: The Case of
the Inter-Oceanic Canal in Nicaragua
Date: Friday, August 28, 2015
Time: 12 noon
Location: Mumford 217
In 2012 the Government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua decided to build
a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific with funding from a Honk-Kong
based private investor. This interoceanic waterway will, if ever
realized, cross indigenous land and national parks and constitute a
massive interference into the local ecosystem. It means to aggravate
the pre-existing land conflicts in the region, because different
actors have very different understandings of what should be the
dominant land use in the region and who has the right to decide about
it: small-scale agriculture, palm oil monocultures, extractivism or
preservation.
Anne Tittor, PhD, is a Post-Doc Researcher from Bielefeld University, Germany. Her main research interests are theories of development, social movements, environmental and health policy and gender relations with a strong focus on Latin America. She works at Bielefeld University in Germany as coordinator of the research line Social Production of Environment within the research project The Americas as Space of Entanglements, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education of Education and Research (BMBF).
Welcome Dinner for New Latino and Hispanic Faculty and
Staff
“MU Voz Latina invites you to join us in welcoming and meeting new
Latino and Hispanic faculty, staff, and spouses on
August 29 at 6pm . This is our first annual gathering to
welcome newcomers to Mizzou, and provide a space for everyone to get
to know each other. The board of Voz Latina will be providing dinner,
so please RSVP prior to the event:
muvozlatina@missouri.edu – space is limited so RSVP soon! This is an inclusive event –
we welcome everyone interested in learning more about Mizzou’s
Latina/o community and events. Voz Latina distributes a weekly
newsletter with relevant events and activities; to receive the
newsletter email us:
muvozlatina@missouri.edu”
Multicultural Center’s Mix and Mingle on
September 10th beginning at 12:30, lunch is provided. “This is an opportunity to connect
students, faculty, and staff that are stakeholders of our space.
We hope you will join us for lunch and in our effort to start the
semester off in a positive way with you all as partners in the success
of our students and the space. Feel free to pass this email on
to others who you believe may be interested as well, as fill out our
form below just letting us know you will be attending.”
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1g4Yjrt0-qPEStuYv--okCAYUHUxiW9L-4vBLwEUDD3w/viewform?usp=send_form
Latin@s Moving Ahead Mixer on September 23rd
Latin@s Moving Ahead Mixer will be on September 23rd in the
Multicultural Center at 7pm. We are inviting Students, Faculty,
Staff, and even family are welcome to come by and socialize and
connect with one another. The Multicultural Center, Association
of Latina/o American Students, Latina/o Graduate Professional Network,
and Voz Latina would like to collaborate and work to connect Latina/o
students to the Latino/a faculty and staff on campus and even with one
another! So we encourage all to come and register with the link
here so we know who is attending and have allergy or dietary
restrictions.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cThWWjh6g48qy5MHKkgMuLkbyENXAImq65MWixTqDck/viewform?usp=send_form
Juntos Para Una Mejor Educación (Together for a Better Education)
Facilitator Training
Are you interested in helping Latino students succeed in school and
increase the number of them going to college? Iowa State University
Extension and Outreach and the Julian Samora Research Institute at
Michigan State University are partnering to offer facilitator training
to individuals interested in learning more about and in implementing
Juntos in their community.
October 8 & 9, 2015
Linn County Extension Office, Cedar Rapids, IA
Please let us know by Sept 18, if you plan to attend:
Kim Greder, ISU:
kgreder@iastate.edu
Rubén Martinez, MSU:Ruben.martinez@ssc.msu.edu
Juntos Para Una Mejor Educación (Together for a Better
Education) curriculum was developed by North Carolina State University
Extension. For more information on the program go to:
http://juntosnc.org/team/
MU Voz Latina organizes a weekly newsletter of Latino/Hispanic local news, events, updates and activities. Email muvozlatina@missouri.edu to be added to the distribution list.
News to Use
Migration Policy Institute
--DACA at the Three-Year Mark: High Pace of Renewals, but Processing
Difficulties Evident
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/daca-three-year-mark-high-pace-renewals-processing-difficulties-evident
--An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by
Country and Region of Birth
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/analysis-unauthorized-immigrants-united-states-country-and-region-birth
National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families
--Improving Data Infrastructure to Recognize Hispanic Diversity in the
United States
This brief examines 34 commonly used large-scale data sets, identifies
which include recommended data elements key to understanding the
diversity of the Hispanic population, and suggests steps national
surveys should take to improve their description of the
characteristics and experiences of Latinos in the United States. -
http://www.childtrends.org/?publications=improving-data-infrastructure-to-recognize-hispanic-diversity-in-the-united-states
--Increasing Visibility of Low-Income LGBTQ Hispanic Families - See more at: http://www.childtrends.org/?nrc-blog-post=increasing-visibility-of-low-income-lgbtq-hispanic-families
A Transformation in Mexican Migration to the United States
Dr. Rogelio Sáenz, at the University of Texas at San Antonio,
recently released a research brief. The major findings of the report,
based on data analysis from the 2008 and 2013 American Community
Survey Five-Year Estimates Public-Use Files, are:
- Migration from Mexico to the United States fell from 1.9 million in 2003-2007 to 819,000 in 2008-2012, a drop of 57 percent.
- The top states for Mexican migration shifted noticeably between the 2003-2007 and 2008-2012 periods.
- Mexicans migrating to the United States today tend to have higher socioeconomic status, are older, are more likely to be women, have greater English-language fluency, and are somewhat less likely to be connected to the workforce than Mexicans who migrated in the early to middle 2000's.
The full report can be accessed at: http://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1246&context=carsey