Gearing Up For San Antonio

May 18, 2007

Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President, Educational Policy Institute

We’re all kind of psyched here at EPI this week. Next week we’ll all be in San Antonio for our big Retention 2007 International Conference. We’re psyched because this year’s event is over twice the size of our Las Vegas conference last year, and our list of speakers and presenters is impressive: Representative Chaka Fattah, John Gardner, Diana Natalicio, Cliff Adelman, Raymund Paredes, Roseann Runte, Cha Guzman, Sarita Brown, John Brooks Slaughter, and many more. This stated, we’ve been kind of busy with final arrangements, thus I’m keeping my commentary very brief and directed.

As of today, we’re still getting registrations for Retention 2007, and registration will be open until Tuesday. I invite our readers to visit the website and consider participating. We’ll be in San Diego next May 28-30, 2008.

I would like to thank our sponsors: the National Student Clearinghouse, Lumina Foundation for Education, TG, and NACME for their support of this initiative.

I’ll be back to you next week with a discussion of what happened in San Antonio. Until then, have a great weekend.

Dr. Watson Scott Swail

Ps. Just a note that we have postponed our National Capitol Summit on Latino Students and Educational Opportunity due to spacing issues on Capitol Hill. We will be hosting the event this September/October and will advise as soon as we sign the necessary contracts.