Prepared Minds, Prepared Places: Post Secondary Access in the Global Village

Toronto, Ontario October 25^th to 27^th 2009

Community, institutional and corporate leaders, visionaries, educators, practitioners, policy-makers and concerned citizens, from the not-for-profit, voluntary, private and public sectors are invited to register for the Inaugural Conference of the YMCA-led Canadian Post-Secondary Access Partnership.

• Exchange approaches to building strategies and initiatives that link education, economic and community development objectives.
• Find out how your community can take up the Community Access Challenge.
• Share innovative practices for inspiring and preparing youth and adults for post-secondary studies, engaging students in their own success, mobilizing partners and measuring outcomes.
• Network with other organizations with common objectives from across Canada and internationally
• Find out how your organization can get involved in the Canadian Post-Secondary Access Partnership.

Initiatives that serve Aboriginal youth and adults, those from lower-income households, cultural and ethnic groups that remain underrepresented at the post-secondary level, and other “first-generation” students, will be the focus of keynotes, panels, parallel presentations, workshops and a Best Practices Gallery.

This conference is about prepared minds and prepared places.

Be prepared. Change lives.

EVERYONE CAN GO

www.preparedminds-preparedplaces.com

Journal of Developmental Education: Call for Manuscripts

July 2009

Journal of Developmental Education:
The National Centre for Developmental Education have made a call for manuscripts to be included in their next journal, 'The Journal of Developmental Education (JDE)'.

Call for Papers

Author's Guidelines and search selections for articles are available here: http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/jde.htm