BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:edu.community.ucla/1.1.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f72eb4da-7745-e037-b101-eb9a0a5bf566@community.ucla.edu SUMMARY:UCLA Latino Alumni Association to attend the UC Chicanx/Latinx Alum ni Association Meeting at UC Santa Barbara DTSTAMP:20240607T220500Z DTSTART:20240629T183000Z DTEND:20240629T183000Z DESCRIPTION:SUMMIT SCHEDULE\n\n11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.\n\nLuncheon sponsore d by UCSB Alumni Affairs      \n\n12:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.\n\nProgram Highli ght:\n\nFocus on Being a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)  – Panelists:\ n\nBritt Ortiz ('85) Former Director\, Early Academic Outreach Program\, U CSB\nCuca Acosta ('01) Associate Director\, Admissions\, UCSB\nProfessor D olores Inés Casillas\, Director of the Chicano Studies Institute (CSI) and Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, UCSB\n\n\nSpecial Guest Speake r:\n\nBuscando Vida\, Encontrando Éxito by\n\nProfessor Victor Rios\, Asso c. Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology\, UCSB\n\n4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.\n\nSpecial Reception:\nHonoring US Congressman Tony Cárdenas ( ’86)\n\nPartial List of Invited Distinguished Guests:\n\nHenry T. Yang\, C hancellor of UC Santa Barbara\nJuan Sánchez Muñoz\, Ph.D. ('90) Chancellor of UC Merced\nCástulo de la Rocha ('73) Pres. and CEO\, AltaMed Health Se rvices Corporation (2019 Recipient of UCSB Distinguished Alumni Award)\nYo landa Garcia\, Ph.D. ('70\, '72\, '98) Former Asst. Vice Chancellor of Stu dent Academic Support Services and Dir.\, Education Opportunity Program\n\ n\n(2012 Recipient of UCSB Graver Alumni Service Award)\n\nOscar Gutierrez ('13) Councilmember\, City of Santa Barbara\nJosé M. Hernández ('86) Pres . and CEO\, Tierra Luna Engineering\, LLC and NASA STS-128 Shuttle Mission Astronaut\, and UC Regent\n\n\n(2015 Recipient of UCSB Distinguished Alum ni Award)\n\nProfessor Aída Hurtado\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Dept. of C hicana/o Studies and speaker at 2017 Women's March on Washington\, D.C.\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUEST SPEAKERS\n\nPanel on UCSB ’s HSI Status – An Early Framework\, Serving-ness\, and Expanding Impact\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBritt Ortiz ('85) Former Director\, Earl y Academic Outreach Program\, UC Santa Barbara and 2017 University of Cali fornia’s Dr. Winston Doby Impact Award. That same year the EAOP Department received the “William J. Villa Departmental Service to Students Award” fr om the UCSB Division of Student Affairs. His innovative outreach strategie s to high school students and administrators has led to gains in higher-ed ucation matriculation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCuca Acosta ('01) As sociate Director\, Admissions\, UC Santa Barbara\, where she manages a nat ional effort to promote UCS Band leads a large team of admission counselor s working at the high school and community college level with students\, p arents and counselors.  Cuca is co-chairing the search committee for UCSB’ s first Hispanic Serving Institute (HSI) director and is co-chair of Stren gthening Opportunities for Latinx (SOL) which serves Chicano/Latino facult y and staff.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Dolores Inés Casilla s\, Director of the Chicano Studies Institute (CSI) and Professor of Chica na and Chicano Studies\, UC Santa Barbara.  Dr. Casillas is also the Lead Project Investigator (PI) on a recently awarded $3M HSI grant by the Natio nal Science Foundation (NSF-HSI) to help establish the Center for Equity E nvironmental Sciences (CEES) at CSI.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Guest Speaker: \n\nBuscando Vida\, Encontrando Éxito\n\nProfessor Victor Rios\, Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology\, UC Santa Barbara.  D r. Rios is the author of My Teacher Believes in Me: The Educator’s Guide t o At-Promise Students (2019)\, Street Life: Poverty\, Gangs\, and a Ph.D. (2011)\, Buscando Vida\, Encontrando Éxito: La Fuerza de La Cultura Latina en La Educación (2016)\, and Human Targets: Schools\, Police\, and the Cr iminalization of Latino Youth (2017).\n\nEl Profe has been featured in Ted Talks\, Primer Impacto\, and NPR\, as well as the Oprah Winfrey Network.  In addition to meeting President Obama and advising his administration\, his Ted Talk has over 1.4M views.  Dr. Rios is the subject of the document ary film The Pushouts. (Bio from Premier Speakers Bureau)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccommodations\n\nPlease note that the UC CLA A meeting at UC Santa Barbara is during peak season in the region (Goleta & Santa Barbara)\, we encourage you to reserve your accommodations as earl y as possible.\n\n \n\nOn-Campus Options:\n\nThe Summer Inn which can be b ooked HERE. This is an on-campus dorm style rooms\, so be sure to read the details. This is a very cost effective option and right in the heart of c ampus with a price point of under $200 per night.\n\n\nThe Club & Guest Ho use which can be booked HERE. This is also on-campus but is more like a tr aditional hotel with a higher price point of over $200 per night.\n\n\n \n \nOff-Campus Options with Discounts:\n\nHere are a list of local hotels pu t together by Alumni Affairs that offer various discounts to UCSB or UC al umni: https://www.alumni.ucsb.edu/vacation/visiting-santa-barbara\n\nFor o ther travel information for the Summit such as directions\, dress code\, p arking\, download the summit factsheet for your reference.\n\nEvent Websit e: https://alumni.ucla.edu/event/ucla-latino-alumni-association-to-attend- the-uc-chicanx-latinx-alumni-association-meeting-at-uc-santa-barbara/\n\nE vent Website: https://alumni.ucla.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/events/13675 1\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/f72eb4da-7745-e037-b101-eb9a 0a5bf566 LOCATION:UC Santa Barbara • Santa Barbara CA STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR