Celebración de Excelencia 2012

A record audience of professionals from colleges and universities from across the country joined members of congress, state legislators, federal officials, business leaders, and representatives from national education and advocacy organizations at this year’s Celebración de Excelencia.

The 2012 Examples of Excelencia and finalists at the associate, baccalaureate, and graduate levels were announced.

Celebración Speakers:

Representative Charles Gonzalez (TX), Chairman, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, delivered the special address.

Other Celebración speakers included:

Deborah Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education; Stephanie Garcia, NALEO Educational Fund; Marco Davis, Deputy Director White House Initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics; Tina Gridiron-Smith, Program Officer, Lumina Foundation; Sarita Brown, President, Excelencia in Education; Adriana Bosch, Executive Producer, Latino Americans, WETA, Premiering 2013 .

KeyNOTE ADDRESS:

Elsa Núñez, President, Eastern Connecticut University

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