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Presentations and Dissemination
A book of stories and poems about the impact of welfare reform on community college students, produced collaboratively by CSUMB social action writing students and EOPS/CARE students at Monterey Peninsula College (MPC), Spring 1998.
Presentations/dissemination of book to local, state, national, and international communities to promote education, awareness, civic dialogue, and social action, from Spring 1998 - Spring 2000.
· May 14, 1998, Seaside, CA. - Reading and discussion by CSUMB social action writing students to campus and community audience of about 50, California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB).
· May 21, 1998, Monterey, CA. - Collaborative reading and discussion by MPC EOPS/CARE students and CSUMB social action writing students to campus and community audience of about 100, Monterey Peninsula College (MPC).
· Oct. 15, 1998, Sacramento, CA. -Workshop presented at Annual California Community College EOPS Association Conference by MPC CARE students Bernadette Boyle and Terry Clewis. Audience of about 50 people.
· Oct. 30, 1998, Eau Claire, Wisconsin - "Education As Emanicpation: A California and a Community College Collaboration and Response to Welfare Reform," presentation made by Frances Payne Adler, Director of CSUMB Creative Writing and Social Action Program, at "Women, Poverty, and Public Policy Conference," a national conference sponsored by University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Consortium, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Participation of inter-disciplinary scholars from 14 states, about 400.
· Jan. 1999, Peru and Hungary - Patricia Mapp, Director of the Children's Project, Dept. of Outreach and Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, read "Wisconsin Works" poem by Frances Payne Adler, at a conference in Peru, where it was translated into Spanish. She also read it at a conference in Hungary, where it was translated into Hungarian.
· Jan. 1999 - Sarah Harder, Chair, Women's Studies at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, sends book to heads of national women's organizations.
· Feb. 5, 1999, Los Angeles, CA. - "Education As Emancipation: Women On Welfare Speak Out," a collaborative presentation made by CSUMB social action writing student Erin Silvas, and Frances Payne Adler, at "Welfare Reform and the University," a state-wide CSU conference at CSU Los Angeles. Attendance of CSU faculty, adminstrators, students, about 100.
· Feb. 24, 1999 - Recommendations sent to CSUMB Provost and CSUMB Task Force on Student Success and Retention by Frances Payne Adler. After attendance at both the state-wide CSU conference and the national conference on welfare reform in Wisconsin, observations and recommendations were compiled and sent to CSUMB adminstration about how to best support CSUMB students and Tri-County community college students impacted by welfare reform.
· March 11, 1999, Seaside, CA. - Luncheon presentation at the CSSO Conference in Seaside. Six CARE students, Bernadette Boyle, Terry Clewis, Norma Coronado, Earletta Edmond, Jackie Harrington, and Yolanda Murphy, spoke before an audience of 250 college administrators.
· March 22, 1999, Monterey, CA. - Workshop presented at Eighth Annual Board of Governors and California Community Colleges (MEGA) Conference in Monterey. Due to a cancellation in the program, CARE students were invited on short notice to conduct a workshop at the conference. Those in attendance included Bernadette Boyle, Terry Clewis, Earletta Edmond, Lisa Firebaugh, Jackie Harrington, and Yolanda Murphy. They spoke before an audience of 50 college faculty and staff members.
· April 15, 1999, San Francisco, CA. - Evening banquet presentation before the Statewide Conference of California Community Colleges Academic Senate held at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco. Five CARE students, Bernadette Boyle, Terry Clewis, Norma Coronado, Jackie Harrington, and Yolanda Murphy, addressed an audience of 150 faculty senate members from across the state.
· April 16, 1999, Albany, New York - "Social Action Writing at California State University Monterey Bay: A Response to Welfare Reform," a collaborative presentation by CSUMB social action writing students Sarah Lerma and Erin Silvas, and Frances Payne Adler, at the national Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Albany, New York. AWP is the professional association for creative writing university professors in the U.S. Audience of about 150 professors and graduate creative writing students from across the U.S.
· Summer 1999, Russia - Sarah Harder, Chair of Women's Studies at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, took the book to Russia -- to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia; to Tver; to St. Petersburg; and to Moscow.
· Spring 2000, Connecticutt - Elaine Zimmerman, Director, Child and Family Services, State of Connecticutt, utilizing book as resource.
· February 22, 2000, Monterey, CA - MPC EOP/CARE staff and student panel presentation to MPC Board of Trustees, College Center, MPC
· March 4, 2000, Monterey, CA- Monterey Peninsula College EOP/CARE staff and student panel presentation at the Fifth Annual Multicultural Women's Conference, MPC.
· March 13, 2000, Sacramento, CA - MPC Staff and student presentation at the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
· Spring 2000 - Monterey, CA - Collaboration between CSUMB's Creative Writing and Social Action Program and Computer Sciences and Technology Program with MPC's EOPS/CARE Program to create a Web Page, an update on the original 1998 stories, a link to the book, as well as resources about welfare reform in California.
1st Printing, May 1998, 1000 copies, funded by grant from MPC EPOS Program.
2nd Printing, May 1999, 1000 copies, funded by MPC.