[BHS Etree] EVENTS - Dream Act Conference - April 2 at UC Berkeley

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PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Rising Immigrant Scholars
through Education (R.I.S.E.), risecochairs at gmail.com 

 

Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education (R.I.S.E.) of UC Berkeley
would like to invite you to our

4th Annual "Achieving our Dreams" AB540 Conference

April 2, 2011 from 9am-5pm

 

WHO:              RISE at UC Berkeley of UC Berkeley 

WHAT:            4th Annual "Achieving Your DREAMS" AB-540 Conference

WHERE:         2050 Valley Life Science Building (VLSB) 

WHEN:            Saturday, April 2nd - 9am-5:00pm 

WHY:              Because education is a right not a privilege!   

RSVP:             http://tinyurl.com/riseconference 

 

Over 65,000 undocumented students graduate from High School each year
across the United States.  At least 25,000 are from our State of
California.  Due to their immigration status these students are ineligible
for all Federal and State funded government financial aid.  They forfeit
the pursuit of their dreams to attend a four-year University or College
Institution as well as the opportunity of becoming talented doctors,
nurses, lawyers, secondary school teachers, entrepreneurs, electrical
engineers, and researchers.

 

Our student organization, therefore, recognizes that all students
regardless of their citizenship status should have access to a higher
education.  With the objective to close the educational gap among
underrepresented communities, we seek to recruit, inform, and retain
students from this particular background by providing them with the
necessary resources to successfully navigate and achieve a higher
education in order for them to contribute to the well-being of our State
economy.

 

To end this, we will host our 4th Annual "Achieving Your DREAMS" AB-540
Conference occurring on Saturday April 2nd, 2011 from 9am-5:00pm at our
University of California, Berkeley campus.  Our Annual Conference will
provide multiple workshops regarding alternative financial aid
opportunities, academic support as well as additional resources essential
for them to successfully achieve a higher education at the University or
College of their choice.  We expect over 350 High School and Community
College students as well as concerned parents from all over the San
Francisco Bay Area to attend our conference based on previous attendance
records.  

 

We, therefore would like to extend this invitation to you and kindly ask
that you distribute the attached flier to your networks and all students
that you might benefit from the conference. 

 

For more information please feel free to contact risecochairs at gmail.com   

RSVP:             http://tinyurl.com/riseconference 

 

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO YOUR NETWORKS. An EDUCATION is possible!

 

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 Co-Chairs Fall 2010

 Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education (R.I.S.E.) 

 University of California, Berkeley

 Email: risecochairs at gmail.com 

 Website: http://risescholarsatberkeley.org/ 

 Twitter: http://twitter.com/RISE_Berkeley 

 Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2g28d9o  

 

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