Symposium to Address Ways to Improve Latino Student Education

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Early registration is now open for the fourth annual Latino Question Professional Development Symposium. The Latino Question is a one-day professional development workshop for educators and community leaders providing best practices for advancing Latino student education. This is the fourth annual symposium.

It will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, June 12, at the Rogers Center for Non-profits, 1200 W. Walnut St. in Rogers. Participants will receive six hours of professional development credit.

Registration is available online, by emailing to olaa@uark.edu or by calling 479-575-4073.

Registration fees are $50 before May 1, $75 after, or $15 for students.

This year’s symposium will focus on biliteracy and global competitiveness, place-based learning and service learning. Speakers include:

• Shelly Coleman-Spiegel, executive director of Californians Together, a coalition focused on improving schooling for English learners developing a global, multilingual competitive workforce
• Dr. Janice Popp, professor of agricultural economics and member of the service learning committee at the University of Arkansas
• Linda Lemus, Trudie McEnvoy and Bonnie Christina Holmes, with the Second Language Acquisition Program at the University of Arizona.

The Latino Question Symposium is sponsored by the University of Arkansas’ La Oficina Latina, Office of Diversity Affairs and the College of Education and Health Professions.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.