Bridging EOP

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Bridging EOPs Past to the Present and
FutureChallenges, Opportunities,
Responsibilities40th Anniversary EOP
ConferenceTom Browntom_at_tbrownassociates.comwww
.tbrownassociates.com
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1968

• Februarythree South Carolina State College
  students killed and 28 injured trying to
  integrate a bowling alley in Orangeburg, SC.
• March San Francisco State students, faculty, and
  staff strike to protest racial discrimination,
  the Vietnam war, the draft, and an irrelevant
  curriculum.
• AprilDr. Martin Luther King assassinated

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1968

• SpringSenator Robert Kennedy joins Cesar Chavez
  and 8000 UFW members and calls Chavez, one of
  the heroic figures of our time.
• JuneBobbie Kennedy is assassinated in LA after
  winning the California presidential primary.
• June 17Associated Students at Cal State LA
  provides 40,000 to the Black Student Association
  (BSA) and United Mexican American Students (UMAS)
  to fund a Minority Student Program.

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1968

• October 2300 Mexican students massacred by
  security forces at Tlatelolco ten days before
  opening of Mexico City Olympics.
• October 1968San Jose State students, John Carlos
  and Tommie Smith, raise gloved fists after
  winning gold and bronze in 200 meter race.

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1969

• AprilCalifornia Legislature passed Bill 1072
  which establishes EOP at California State
  Universities.
• JuneStonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NYgays
  and lesbians fight back against government
  sponsored system of persecution. The rebellion
  marks the beginning of the gay rights movement in
  the US and around the world.
• November500,000 people gather in DC for the
  largest Vietnam War protest to date.

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Despite entering with academic and economic
disadvantages, CSU data indicated that EOP
students persists to graduation on par with
system-wide averages CSU website
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In the struggle for freedom and justice, we must
remember how far we have come.We must also
remember how far we have to go.
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)
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It cant be over as long as we have young African
American boys and girls who are not able to get
the quality education they need, or are still
being held back because people are looking down
on them. Colin Powell August 23,
2008
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Forty percent of new students are the first in
their families to attend college. (National
Center for Education Statistics, 1996, 1998,
2001)Often, they are not as academically or
socially prepared as others and are prone to drop
out. Watson Scott Swail, President Educational
Policy Institute Chronicle of Higher
Education, 1/19/04
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77 of high income students 54 of low income
students graduate in six years. The
Education Trust, January 2005
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Disparities in race and income persist in who
enrolls in college and racial gaps remain in who
completes degrees. National Center
for Public Policy, December 2008
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Institutions are far more likely to attribute
attrition to student characteristics than to
institutional characteristics. What Works In
Student Retention, 2004
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What happens to students after they enroll
frequently has a more powerful impact on whether
they stay and achieve their goals or leave.
Tinto 1987, 1993
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Mexican-American high school students and their
white peers desire equally to go to college, but
the former see more obstacles in their
path. McWhirter, Torres, Salgado,
Valdez Oregon State study, 2007
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Most of the Latino achievement gap is the result
of what happens after they begin postsecondary
studies. Latinos in Higher
Education Many Enroll, Too Few Graduate PEW
Charitable Trust, 2002
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African American students are more likely to find
faculty members remote, discouraging, and
unsympathetic. Exploring Distinctions in Types
of Faculty Interactions Among Black, Latino/a,
and White College Students. Cole and Anaya, 2001
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• Even the most non-traditional students can be
  transformed into powerful learners through in-
  and out-of-class academic or interpersonal
  validation. Dr. Laura Rendon, 1994

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EOP provided me with an environment of support
and what I now know to be validation that could
I could be whatever I wanted to be. Dr.
Mario Rivas, CSUH EOP Alumnus
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More than anything, EOP provided me with a sense
of belonging and belief in my own ability to
succeed. I dont think I would have been
successful without the competent caring personnel
in EOP at Cal State San Marcos Susana
Gonzalez, 1997 EOP Alumna Cal State San Marcos

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Conservative elites, challenged by the postwar
rise of a college educated majority, have put
that majority back in its place
Christopher Newfield, UCSB Unmaking
the Public University, 2008
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Conservative

• Disposed to maintain existing views, habits,
  conditions
• Resistant to change
• Opposed to change
• Reluctant to accept change or new ideas.
• Websters Third International Dictionary

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Their weapon has been the culture wars on both
higher education and the progressive trends it
fostersand has led to the abandonment of
egalitarian and democratic impulses
Christopher Newfield, 2008
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As more students of color and the poor have
prepared themselves for the opportunities of
state universities, those universities have
become richer whiter and richer. Chronic
le of Higher Education October 2008
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The average institutional grant to high income
students is larger than the support offered to
their low income peers. Gene
Nichols Chronicle of Higher Education
October 2008
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La lucha continua, siempre!
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When first admitted to EOP I had mixed feelings
and didnt know if I should be embarrassed.After
experiencing a few days I not only felt proud to
be admitted to EOP, I felt it was a blessing.
Tirhas Yohannes, CSUN EOP
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I never cared about going to college until I
realized how hard the real world would be
without an education. The EOP 4 Bridge
Valuesrespect, responsibility, attitude,
maturityhelped me succeed. Professor Omatsu
helped me realize my potential. Solomon
Miranda, CSUN EOP
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The Ramirez Family CSU Chico EOP

• CarmenCivil Engineering
• JesusMechanical Engineering
• FranciscoMechanical Engineering
• IgnacioConstruction Management
• TeresaTalent Search at UC Berkeley
• Lorenacompleting a Masters in Psych
• Augustinthe baby graduated in May

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As long as education is viewed as a contest
between competing groupswe will have problems.
Cookie Newsom Director of
Diversity Education Research University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chronicle
of Higher Education, January 2004
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Not a zero sum game, with winners and losers.

• Compete
• Com together
• Petire to seek

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Create Unum from the PluribusOne from the Many

• Educate
• ducareto lead

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The majority of new students entering are
underprepared for college-level academics. But
students are not alone colleges, too, are
underprepared
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Most faculty have no particular training to teach
underprepared students. Strengthening
Pre-Collegiate Education Carnegie Foundation,
2008
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We build beautiful campuses,

• We hire distinguished faculty,

? We develop a challenging curriculum
then the wrong students show up! Dr. Betty
Siegel, Past President
Kennesaw State University
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Redefining excellence
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The New American University measures its academic
quality by the education its graduates received
rather than by the academic credentials of the
incoming freshman class. ASU A New
American University
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Many non-traditional students want their doubts
erased about their being capable of
learning.This is especially true for first
generation students, Hispanic and African
American students. Laura Rendon, 1994
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• Hope a better predictor of first semester college
  grades than SAT scores.
• CL Snyder
• University of Kansas
• HOPE
• believing you have the will and the way to
  accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.

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My first day, I looked around this beautiful,
lush, rich campus and thought, What the hell am
I doing here? Its only a matter of time before
they realize that Im not one of them. I am not
rich. I dont have a loving family to go home to
on holidays. Only foster parents who dont want
me, a stepdad in prison, and a dead mother...
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And, I am not smart. I scored 580 on my SATs.

• Professor Tammy Ramos BA and BS, St.
  Marys College of California JD, Notre Dame Law
  School

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• Optimism a better predictor of first-year college
  grades than SAT scores or high school grades.
• Martin Seligman
• University of Pennsylvania
• OPTIMISM
• Having a strong expectation that things will turn
  out all right, despite setbacks and frustrations.

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The next time you tell Tammys story, tell
mineI scored 700 on my SATs and I have a Ph.D.
in Biology from the University of California,
Davis.

• Dr. Robert Urtecho, Dean
• Reedley Community College (CA)

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EOP Success Stories

• Eric Guerra, Legislative Director,
• EOP Cal State Sacramento
• Dr. Jamillah Moor, President,
• Los Angeles City College,
• EOP Cal State Sacramento

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• What you need to know about someone is whether
  s/he will keep going when things get frustrating.
  
• Achievement is not just a function of talent, but
  also of the capacity to stand defeat.
• Emotional Intelligence
• Goleman, 1995

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There are within us seeds of who we might
become. Thich Nhat Hanh
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate
"apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.
The tough problem is not in identifying winners
it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross, Professor of
Higher Education Emerita University of
California, Berkeley
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when
someone acknowledges who we are and what we can
be, igniting the circuits of our highest
potential. Rusty Berkus
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For all those whose cares have been our
concernthe work goes on, the cause endures,
the hope still lives, the dream shall never die.
Senator Ted Kennedy