Conference to tackle issues on diversity, immigration
Published: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Updated: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 23:11
Sacramento State's bilingual and multicultural education department will be hosting its 17th annual multicultural education conference Saturday, which will explore the impacts of Arizona's immigration policy on education and other issues facing students from other cultural background.
The conference, which is open to all Sac State students, faculty and staff, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University Union.
"Primarily we are trying to highlight issues about multicultural education that impacts the students here in our local region. Sacramento is one of our most diverse cities in the United States," said Maggie Beddow, assistant professor and coordinator for the bilingual and multicultural education department.
The conference will start with a speech from keynote speaker Eugene Garcia, vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University.
Garcia will be speaking about Arizona's policy toward Mexican immigrants, and how it affects these immigrants and their education.
"Arizona is taking a set of steps to mitigate what they perceive to be the negative effects of immigrants, particularly Mexican immigrants. There's a very ambiguous and negative climate towards Latinos in Arizona," Garcia said. "The