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Hispanic conference minutes and program, Des Moines, Iowa, October 12-14, 1979

1979-10-12 The Hispanics: A Missing Link in Public Policy Page 7

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CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Nancy Barceló. Educational Administrator. Program Associate for the Office of Academic Affairs at the University of Iowa. Received B.A. degree in Social Work and Corrections from Chico State College in 1969, M.A. in Recreational Educational from the University of Iowa in 1972, and is currently writing her dissertation in higher education relative to the topic: needs analysis of Chicano students at the University of Iowa in the last ten years. Former positions; director of Educational Opportunity Programs at the University of Oregon, associate director of Special Support Services at the University of Iowa, and assistant director for Chicano and Native American Programs at the University of Iowa. Herbert Becerra. U.S. Postal Employee. Appointed to the Governor's Spanish Speaking Task Force and later reappointed to the Iowa Spanish Speaking People's Commission. Alfredo Benavides. University Assistant Professor. Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Multicultural and Bilingual Teacher Training at the University of Iowa. Received B.A. degree in Spanish and History from Texas A&I in 1970, M.A. in Secondary Education and Curriculum from Michigan State in 1972, and Ph.D. in Administration and Higher Education and Curriculum from Michigan State in 1976. Former positions: outreach coordinator for El Centro Latino, Inc. in Muskegon, Michigan; gratuate teaching assistant at Michigan State; research associate at Central Michigan University and Michigan State; counselor at Eastern High in Lansing, Michigan; and co-director off a small migrant children's day care center in Lansing, Michigan. Samuel Betances. University Professor. Professor, Department of Sociology, Northrastern Illinois University. Received B.A. degree in History-Theology from Columbia union College in 1965, M.A. in Education from Harvard in 1969, Certificate of Advanced Study in Education from Harvard in 1970, and Ph.D. in Education from Harvard in 1972. Former positions: education program specialist, Experimental Schools Task Force, National Institute of Education: instructor, Chicago YMCA Community College for ASPIRA of Illinois, lecturer, Black and Puerto Rican Lecture Series for Boston University; staff consultant and trainer in group dynamics for Ebony Management Associares; director of Division Street Urban Progress Center Unit in Chicago's Puerto Rican Community; faculty assistant at Northeastern Illinois University; Training technician and supervisor of trainers for Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity; and resource consultant for Hull House Headstart Program. Juan Cadena. Director, Muscatine Migrant Committee. Original promoter of programming for Hispanics in Iowa; active in Muscatine community affairs; served in various advisory boards and committees; and appointed to the Governor's Spanish Speaking Task Force and later reappointed to the Iowa Spanish Speaking People's commission as a commissioner. Juan Castillo. Federal Government Employee. Supervisor of Program Development and Evaluation (CETA Coordinator), Department of Labor, Kansas City. Received B.A. degree in Inter-American Affairs from the University of New Mexico in 1954 and an M.A. degree in International Relations and Organization from the American University in 1958. Former positions: teacher and director of elementary school in Nicaro, Oriente, Cuba; teacher of Spanish, university of New Mexico; compliance worker, Farm Labor Service; on loan to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapes-looking into the Cuban refugee problem in Miami; detailed to the Cuban Refugee Center in Miami to find employment and resettle Cuban refugees all ober the U.S.; processed request for alien workers for the Inmigration Board of the U.S. Employment Service; Supervisor of field coordination, WIN program; program developer, coordinator of migrant programs, and worked in equal employment and complience for the Kansas City regional office of the Department of Labor.
 
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