CHCI Hosts Latino Education Summit in New York

Borough of Manhattan Community College's President, Dr. Antonio Perez, along with national experts, will address ways to improve educational challenges for Latino Education.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) will assemble a powerful line-up of Latino leaders to participate in Keeping the Promise:  Partnerships for Latino Education Success on Monday, January 30, 2012, at NBCUniversal Headquarters.

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This forum will foster a national dialogue aimed at increasing educational attainment among young Latinos. BMCC President Antonio Perez will participate in the first panel at 9:00 a.m., titled Keeping the Promise:  Educating our Future Workforce and Growing Consumer Base to be moderated by Jose Diaz-Balart, Telemundo Anchor.

Session panelists will provide action steps needed by multiple stakeholders and educational partners to increase Latino student access and success in the current political, economic, and educational climate to ensure that our Hispanic students are prepared to fill future workforce needs, and sustain the U.S. economy.

Perez's fellow panelists will include: Sarita Brown, President, Excelencia in Education; Lissette Nieves, Commissioner, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics; Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University & Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education; and Rep. Pedro Pierluisi, Commissioner, Puerto Rico.

About CHCI
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), a nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c) (3) organization, provides leadership development programs and educational services to students and young emerging leaders.  The CHCI Board of Directors is comprised of Hispanic Members of Congress, nonprofit, union and corporate leaders.  For more information call CHCI at (202) 543-1771, visit www.chci.org, or join us on Facebook, Twitter (chci) and LinkedIn.

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), enrolls 23,000 degree-seeking and 10,000 continuing education students a year. The largest community college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system, BMCC has students from over 150 countries, and awards associate degrees in 28 fields.

CONTACT: Rachel Sokol, (212) 346-8501, [email protected]

SOURCE Borough of Manhattan Community College

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