Impactful Partnerships: Implications for Policy, Practice and Community Transformation

Dr. Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 5:30-7:00pm | UMass Amherst, Lincoln Campus Center Auditorium

Light refreshments served. Meet and greet followed by lecture.

Dr. Valenzuela will focus on some of the ways that universities can work in and with communities as part of a social justice agenda for school and community transformation. She will touch on historic and systemic barriers that tend to render positionalities as university-based actors problematic. Examples such as a grow-your-own-Latina/o educational pipeline, Mexican-American Studies history curriculum, cultural arts and literacy programs, with state- and national-level implications, will be discussed.

Angela Valenzuela is a professor of Educational Policy and Planning (Department of Educational Administration) and Cultural Studies in Education (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) at the University of Texas at Austin. She also serves as associate vice president for school partnerships.