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An Invitation to Participate

Improving Immigrant Student Success: AB 540 Ally Training Project
A Professional Development Project for Faculty and Staff
California State University, Long Beach

Student success is a California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) priority, and its main goal is to increase student retention and graduation with highly valued degrees. CSULB celebrates over a decade of sustained efforts on the part of many people across the campus working to improve retention and graduation, the quality of the student experience, support for faculty, technological infrastructure and the physical campus. CSULB now aims to achieve still greater distinction in four areas: student success, academic quality, service excellence, and campus environment. Student success is identified as a priority in several policy and strategy documents and its main goal is to increase student retention and graduation with highly valued degrees. In the AB 540 Ally Training Project, the University will focus on undocumented immigrant students.

Project Goals

The goals of the AB 540 Ally Training are to:

  1. Create a welcoming and supportive campus environment for undocumented immigrant students
  2. Increase faculty and staff knowledge and effectiveness about the needs, concerns, and issues of immigrant students and their families
  3. Educate faculty and staff about relevant immigrant laws impacting students and related student issues and challenges.

Dates:

February 27, 2009
8:00 am to 12:30 pm
The Pointe

March 13, 2009
8:00 am to 12:30 pm
The Pointe

Participants will learn the following:

  • What are the requirements for AB 540 and how does it impact the students?
  • How do AB 540 students experience the campus?
  • Which academic and out of classroom support practices show the most promise for immigrant students?
  • What is the Dream Act?

Advanced Registration is required. Participants must attend one of the sessions entirely in order to quality for an AB 540 Decal. Please submit the online application by February 20, 2009. If you do not wish to use the online application print out, complete, scan and return your application to Allison Ohanian at aohanian@csulb.edu by February 20, 2009.