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WESTOP Newsletter |
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October 2004 |
Volume 27,
Number 1 |
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WESTOP Board of Directors ******************* Meeting
Dates: ·
May
14-15 – Hollywood, CA ·
August
20-21 – Oakland, CA ·
October
8-9 – Las
Vegas, NV ·
December
2-3 – San Luis Obispo, CA ·
January
28-29 – Kona, HI ·
March
4-5 – Hollywood, CA ############### Chapter PDS Dates · NorCal – October 17-19 South Lake Tahoe, CA ·
SoCal
– November 10-11 Palm Springs, CA ·
CenCal
– December 1-3 San Luis Obispo, CA ·
Arizona January 10-11 Tsaile, AZ ·
PIC November 7-10 Maui, HI Mini PDS: 1/10-15/05 College of Micronesia |
Aloha WESTOP from the
04-05 Board of Directors Aloha
all! I
would like to thank all of you for your continuing our arduous journey with
our students! As the new school
year has started, many of us will undoubtedly face many more hurdles during
the year. We must not forget,
however, that we must still work together to make our students and our dreams
come true. This being an
election year, I especially urge all of you to get out and be part of the
political landscape. Yes, most
of us don't want to be involved in "politics" per se, but there are
many ways we can still be engaged in the process by informing our students
and their families about the importance of free elections. Currently the Council for Opportunity
for Education (COE) has launched the "Get Three for TRIO" voter
registration campaign. Please
take advantage of this time to get informed on how our programs are funded,
and how important it is for our own Congressional representatives to know what
our programs are doing for students!
We all need to stand up for our programs, and we need to do it
now! The Higher Education Act of
1965 will be amended in the next Congress, and if we don't have
representation sympathetic to our programs, we will see drastic changes, or
even elimination of some programs down the road! Now is the time to act. Get the information about how your representative stands
on your program. Teach the students their responsibilities as a US citizen to
vote. Encourage non-citizens to work towards citizenship. Inform your Congressional candidates
about your program(s). Get out
there on Election Day and vote!
Don't just get "Three for TRIO", get everyone qualified
to vote out there from now to November! Mahalo! James
Oda WESTOP
President Technology Workshops at
PDS’s In
an effort to bring technology “home to the masses”, the Research and
Technology Committee is planning to present at chapter professional
development seminars on some area of technology and its implications for our
programs. Committee chairperson,
Lee Fulmer,
will be heading up the presentation teams. Subjects may range from online databases, searches and
research on the internet, digital portfolios, improving writing skills with
Microsoft Word, Web Quests, multiple intelligences and online communities.
The research aspect of this committee also plans to present as various professional development
seminars. The topics will mainly
focus on WESTOP’s efforts to develop its own data on performance. See more detailed information about a
specific PDS at the WESTOP website. Technology Tidbit Changing the
indentation in a cell in Microsoft Excel
1,
Select the cells you would like to indent. 2.
Press CTRL+1 (or apple+1 on a Mac). 3.
The format cells box will appear.
Click on the alignment tab. 4.
On the pulldown menu under HORIZONTAL, select LEFT INDENT. 5.
In the INDENT BOX, change the number of characters to indent. 6.
Click OK. Separating
first and last names using formulas in Microsoft Excel. If
you have an excel file where the first and last name are in the same cell and
you would like to change this so the first and last name are in separate
cells, this is easy to do. Suppose
Cell A1 contains the name Wendy Westop In
the cell for the last name, type =(MID(A1,FIND(“ “,A1)+1,LEN(A1)) In
the cell for the first name, type the formula =LEFT(A1,FIND(“ “,A1)) |
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Do you know the WESTOP Bylaws? Did you know WESTOP
has Bylaws? Check them out at the WESTOP Website!
“As
you know, UB is not a job but a way of life and one that is dear to my heart
now and forever.”-Roxie Downie Want to submit an
article? Send an email to: howard.willis@sonoma.edu We’re on the Web! |
News from the COE
National Conference The COE National Conference took place September 12th
– 15th at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter and
Riverwalk. The general theme was
“effectiveness”. The theme was
appropriate as we continue to answer to the new efforts by the Education
Department to assess TRiO’s effectiveness. The workshops were centered around making projects more
effective and methods for noting that effectiveness. There were also eight workshop
strands that revolved around college opportunity policy, college retention,
research methods, state coalitions, program management, technology, services
to students with disabilties and international collaboration. Mr. Juan Williams from NPR
gave a stirring and engergizing opening plenary. The Honorable Henry Bonilla welcomed
attendees to the great State of Texas.
Mr. Larry Oxendine spoke to some key updates. How TRiO was one of the few “non
defense” funding initiatives to receive an increase. How annual performance reports will
again determine funding increases or decrases. Regarding Upward Bound, Mr. Oxendine tried to again
explain the reasoning for the $5000 cost per participant initiative and he
will begin to focus his attention on the importance of residential programs
in Upward Bound. Regarding
training grants, 13 were funded and the priorities of those funded were
reduced from nine to five. Mr.
Oxendine then announced that he is now overseeing Title III and Title IV
programs as well as TRiO programs and has collaboration on his mind involving
all three. Mr. Oxendine then
briefly talked about the “Realizing the College Dream” trainings that are being
offered. He said he is very
excited about the curriculum that the training introduces especially for
Upward Bound Programs. Regarding
the SSS competition, he held firm to the adherance to the stated deadline. There was an extension of the
deadline to areas that were affected by natural disasters. Over 1000 applications were
received. The slate should be
available in February 2005.
Deadline dates have not been decided on for EOC/ETS grant
competitions. The application
process will be similar to the SSS competition. The “Get 3 for TRiO” effort
was announced at the conference.
The 2005 COE National Conference is scheduled for September 18-21,
2005 in Washington, DC at the Washington Hilton and Towers. WESTOP Pride A public “thank you” to a
true WESTOP icon by Lydia Perez, Upward Bound
Program, Arizona State University The words below are to say “thank you” to someone who has
embodied what it is to be a TRiO professional. Though I am not an alumnus of
the California State University-Chico (CSU-Chico) Upward Bound projects,
Roxie Downie’s reputation has crossed state lines and inspired me to
acknowledge her. Roxie began
(and ended) her career with TRiO/WESTOP at the Upward Bound projects at
CSU-Chico. When she started in
1977 as the Administrative Assistant, she was one of three permanent staff
serving approximately fifty students.
Her position required her to have a hand in just about every aspect of
the projects. Twenty-seven years
later, Roxie still has a hand involved in just about every aspect of the
projects except now that hand is dealing with a permanent staff triple what
it was in 1977 and over 200 students strong. I am well aware of the cornerstone Roxie has become at
CSU-Chico Upward Bound and that is a tribute to all the time, energy and love
she has put into her work. I can
only imagine how much she means to all the project participants and project
alumni. It would not be
difficult for any student in CSU-Chico’s Upward Bound projects to see that
Roxie is there because she loves what she does and who she does it for. Professionals who approach their work
like that are never forgotten and always cherished. It is certain that not just Upward Bound alumni are touched
by Roxie’s efforts. If one views
her list of service to WESTOP, it is plain to see that she also valued her
colleagues as much as she valued her students. Roxie has been a member of WESTOP since she started
working for Upward Bound at CSU-Chico.
She has served on numerous committees with WESTOP consistently for
many years. It is via her
participation in WESTOP that I came to meet her. As a new TRiO professional, I was fortunate to have a
supervisor who believed that I should have mentors to look to beyond him. At regional conferences, he would
point and introduce me to those he believed could be mentors to me. Roxie Downie was one of the first
individuals I was suggested to meet and get to know. I hope Roxie realizes how many people
look to her for guidance and support.
Each time I talk to Roxie it is an occasion to learn (about
regulations, office management pointers or best practices for our programs)
or to receive a kind word (about her students, your own students, how she
wants to help out or what a great job she thinks you did). Roxie is just as inspirational for her
colleagues as she is for her project participants. I thank Roxie for twenty-seven terrific years. Though Roxie says she is retiring, I
know that I will hear that she is doing some “little thing” with the Upward
Bound Program at CSU-Chico or volunteering for some chapter/association
committee. I know this because
Roxie allowed TRiO/WESTOP to become a part of her and when something is a
part of you - - you never leave it. Again Roxie, thank you! |
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otherwise noted, the material included herein does not necessarily reflect
the official policies or positions of the Western Association of Educational
Opportunity Personnel (WESTOP).
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is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or timeliness of information
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