Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Students from Kansas high schools will come to the University of Kansas today for the second annual Latino Leadership Summit.
Aida Garcia-Franks, Lenexa graduate student and program assistant for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said the summit was to encourage Latino students to go to college. She said the summit would include several workshops that teach high school students what they need to do in the last two years of high school to prepare for higher education.
“We came up with it because with the growing population in Kansas, we thought it was important to get the message of college out there,” Garcia-Franks said.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, the Latino Faculty and Staff Council, and the Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity and Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority collaborated to organize the summit. High school students from Topeka, Kansas City, Kan., Wichita, Emporia and western Kansas were invited.
Representatives from the Office of Admissions and Scholarships will be available to help potential students with questions about the financial aspects of going to college. Garcia-Franks said the University was not able to offer scholarships, but could direct students to outside scholarship opportunities.
"Gomez said she had some friends who attended the summit last year and said they learned a lot about their higher education options."
Stephanie Gomez, Newton senior and president of HALO, said HALO representatives would be available to answer questions about college life from a student’s perspective. Gomez said she had some friends who attended the summit last year and said they learned a lot about their higher education options.
Carlos Ojeda Jr., an educational and motivational speaker, will be the keynote speaker for the event. Ojeda was a first-generation college student. He travels to schools across the nation to share his experience and motivate people to go to college.
Next spring, representatives from the University will travel to the high school students’ communities and hold informational sessions for parents in Spanish.
— Edited by Luke Morris
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