ENLACE Project Director, has been involved in educational
outreach, academic administration and teaching for 25 years as Associate
Vice President at Fresno State, as Executive Director of the Idaho
Humanities Council, and in other positions with Butler University and the
South Carolina Arts Commission. Tom has chaired the AmeriCorps program in
Idaho, the Idaho Rhodes Scholarship Trust, the Central California Research
Symposium, and Boise State University’s Committee on Faculty Research
and Creative Activities. He has also served on the boards of the
Federation of State Humanities Councils, Confluence Press of Lewis-Clark
College, and the Idaho Commission on Women’s Programs.
“The Kellogg Foundation’s ENLACE initiative could
not have been launched at a better time or directed at a more appropriate
constituency. ENLACE’s belief in tapping the rich resources in Latino
communities – families, churches, cultural heritage, to name only a few
– is right on the mark."
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Tom McClanahan,
ENLACE Phase I Director
tommcc@csufresno.edu
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ENLACE
Project Advisor, comes from a migrant, farmworking family. Like many
prospective ENLACE participants, he came to the USA to work in the fields.
He was the only one in his family who continued on in school and graduated
from college. He ultimately earned a Master's Degree in Applied
Linguistics and Latin American Literature. Mr. Moreno has been an
instructor, counselor, and program director at California State
University, Fresno for more than a decade. His
primary role with ENLACE is to assist in the development and pilot-testing
of innovative services targeting parents, children, teachers,
administrators, and community members. In this specialized role as advisor
to the program’s development teams, Raul Moreno brings unique personal
and professional experience working with Latino parents and children to
motivate them to eagerly prepare for, aggressively seek, and ultimately
attain a college education.
"ENLACE is an opportunity to access educational
resources for families and students who are most in need. It will provide
a gateway to a college education for Hispanic students."
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Raul Z. Moreno,
Special Program Advisor
raulm@csufresno.edu
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ENLACE Project Coordinator, is the first
in her family to complete college. She holds an Associate in Arts
degree from the College of the Sequoias and a B.A. in Social Work from
Fresno State. She is currently a candidate for the Masters degree in
education and anticipates completing her credential in Pupil Personnel
Services in 2001. Adriana has served as a Summer Program Supervisor
for the University's Migrant Services program and a College Ambassador for
the Outreach Services Program at Fresno State. She has worked as a
substitute teacher and counseling intern in Tulare County, bringing a
wealth of training and experience to the ENLACE Phase I program.
Adriana will use her bilingual skills to develop school partnerships,
provide outreach services, conduct research, and supervise support staff.
“The large numbers of rural, migrant students in Central California are some of
the most needy in the United States. Our ENLACE program will pay particular attention to involving
parents in such a way that their children’s chances of educational
success are significantly improved.”
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Adriana Cervantes-González,
Project Coordinator
acervant@csufresno.edu
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ENLACE’s Community Liaison, attended Lemoore High
School prior to graduating from California State University, Fresno.
Over the past five years John has been employed as a Marketing
Specialist with Univision KFTV Channel 21, the Central Valley’s largest
Spanish-language television station, as well as an Account Executive with
AT&T Wireless Services. While completing his undergraduate degree, he also served as a
Spanish Media Intern for the Office of U.S. Congressman George Radanovich.
The primary focuses of John’s work for ENLACE will be developing
partnerships with community organizations, developing publicity
components, conducting project research, and advising on the use of
technology to meet project goals.
“The growing Hispanic community in California’s San
Joaquin Valley, where I grew up, is facing enormous challenges in
education. As the first member of my family to graduate from
college, I can think of no better way to address these challenges than to
help develop essential programs like ENLACE. If we do it right,
Central California can only change for the better.”
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John Madrid,
Community Liaison
jmadrid@csufresno.edu
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is serving as a special consultant to ENLACE
Phase I project managers and development teams. Bringing nearly 30
years of educational and related research experience to this effort, his
combined expertise in higher education, evaluation of educational
innovations, and central California's rural populations makes him uniquely
qualified to help guide the project through the process of designing,
pilot testing, evaluating, and documenting ENLACE program
components. His professional accomplishments include directing a
national longitudinal study of Migrant Higher Education, formulating
Fresno State's Campus Plan for Educational Equity, and serving as a
research design consultant to several funded studies of the Immigration
Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and its impact on central California's
agricultural labor market, rural populations, and human services
infrastructures.
"The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's ENLACE Initiative
is both a challenge and an opportunity for this nation's Hispanic Serving
Institutions to stretch the walls of the institutional 'bubble' which is
only semi-permeable. The transparent walls make visible all that
higher education has to offer --- to those who hold the key. ENLACE
must find ways to maintain the strength of the institution and
preserve the values and traditions of the rural Hispanic culture, while
creating new openings through which both may pass more freely."
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Gary L. Riley,
Research
& Evaluation Specialist
griley@mcn.org
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