F126. Money Moves & Recruitment Tools: Summer Writing Programs for High School Students

D133-134, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

More and more universities are offering college experience programs and workshops for high school students. Not only is it a way to bring in revenue during the “off time” between semesters, but it is also an effective tool for recruiting prospective students. This discussion-based panel will offer participants the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for summer programs, gain strategies for working with administration challenges, budgets, space restrictions, and faculty recruitment.


Participants

Moderator:

Tania Pabón holds an MA in English from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she is an administrator. Her work has appeared in Briller and Gravel, is forthcoming in Pigeon Pages and Breadcrumbs Mag, and was chosen for the AmpLit Fest 2018 Emerging Writer Showcase.

Patricia Dunn, MFA, is the Assistant Dean of Grad Studies, Director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she also teaches. She is the author of Rebels By Accident (Sourcebooks Fire). Her writing has appeared in Salon.com, CSM, The Nation, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, and others.

Seth Michelson teaches at Washington and Lee University. His most recent books of poetry are Swimming Through Fire (2017) and Eyes Like Broken Windows (2012). He edited Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention (2017), and he has translated eight books of poetry.

Tori Weston is the founder and Assistant Director of the Arts & Communication Pre-College Programs at Emerson College. She received a BFA in Writing and Publishing and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.

Sylvia Chan is the author of We Remain Traditional. She serves as court advocate for foster kids in Pima County and nonfiction editor for Entropy, where she curates a domestic violence series. She teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona.

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