UCSC AMP - 10th Annual Fall Conference
8:00 am-3:30 pm, Coastal Biology Building
Registration
You may register by completing this form by September 1. If needed, you can revisit the form to change your responses.
Conference Schedule
| 8:00-8:45 | Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00-9:45 | CP/EVC Marlene Tromp |
| 9:45-10:00 | Raffle |
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10:00-11:45 |
Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Adam Smith, writer and editor, Greater Good Sciences Center |
| 11:45-12:00 | Raffle |
| 12:00-1:15 | Lunch - La Feliz Room at Seymour Center |
| 1:15-2:00 | Campus Speaker: Pablo G. Reguerin - Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Achievement, Equity, and Innovation |
| 2:00-2:15 | Raffle |
| 2:15-3:00 | Faculty Speaker: Steve McKay - Associate Professor, Sociology & Director, UCSC Center for Labor Studies |
| 3:00-3:15 | Raffle |
| 3:15-3:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 3:30 | No Host Social at West End Tap & Kitchen |
Speakers
Marlene Tromp - Campus Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor
CP/EVC Marlene Tromp is responsible for managing the daily operations of UC Santa Cruz. She works closely with Chancellor George Blumenthal and is the administration's primary liaison with the Academic Senate.Tromp's priorities include engaging faculty in the creation of a vibrant academic and research vision, bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to the creation of new sources of revenue, providing focused leadership to support student academic needs, and growing the commitment to serving first-generation college students and a diverse student population.
Tromp joined UC Santa Cruz in 2017 after serving as vice provost for Arizona State University’s West Campus and dean of ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, M.A. in English from the University of Wyoming, and B.A. in English from Creighton University in Nebraska.
Jeremy Adam Smith - Editor, Greater Good Science Center
Jeremy Adam Smith edits the GGSC’s online magazine, Greater Good, and helps launch new products like Thnx4.org and Greater Good in Action. He is the author or co-editor of four books: The Daddy Shift, Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, Are We Born Racist?, and The Compassionate Instinct.
Jeremy’s coverage of racial and economic segregation in San Francisco schools has won numerous honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and numerous excellence in journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also a three-time winner of the John Swett Award from the California Teachers Association. His articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American, The San Francisco Chronicle, Utne Reader, The Nation, Mindful, Shambhala Sun, Wired, and many other periodicals, websites, and books. Jeremy has also been interviewed by The Today Show, the New York Times, USA Today, Salon.com, Working Mother, Nightline, ABC News, NBC News, the Globe and Mail, and numerous NPR shows about parenting and education. Before joining the GGSC, Jeremy was a 2010-11 John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University. You can follow him on Twitter!
Pablo G. Reguerin - Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Achievement, Equity, and Innovation
Pablo Guillermo Reguerín currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Achievement, Equity, and Innovation at UC Santa Cruz, providing leadership and oversight to a cluster of student services offices charged with retaining and graduating students with a focus on educational equity.
Since September 2009, Pablo has led efforts to integrate student services to develop student care teams, increased case-management of vulnerable student populations and data-driven intervention programs. These efforts have resulted in Individual Success Plans for cohorts of EOP students, intensive advising services for immigrant and undocumented/AB540 students, a newly launched Textbook Lending Library for students facing financial hardship and a Laptop pilot program for students that arrive to campus without a laptop or computer. In collaboration with faculty partners and the Office of Institutional Research, Pablo has launched an evidence-based evaluation process of the retention services units through the use of logic models to further deepen the utilization of research based practices and continuous improvement.
Pablo has worked at UCSC for over fifteen years, previously serving as the Deputy Director of the Educational Partnership Center and as a Senior Admissions Counselor with the Office of Admissions. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Cruz in Latino and Latin American Studies and his Master of Arts degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in Educational Leadership and Administration.
Steve McKay - Associate Professor, Sociology & Director, UCSC Center for Labor Studies
Steve McKay is associate professor of Sociology and Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. His research has focused on labor, gender, racial formation, and globalization. He is currently working on a new book, based on historical and multi-sited ethnographic research, focused on the rise and reproduction of ethno-national labor niches in contemporary global labor markets. The book, focused on global shipping, is entitled Born to Sail? Race, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers. Steve is also working locally in the Santa Cruz area on a series of community-initiated, student-engaged research projects – collectively part of the Working for Dignity program - focusing on low-wage work, wage theft, immigration, and affordable housing. He is also Principal Investigator for the community-engaged research project No Place Like Home: The Affordable Housing Crisis Study of SC County.
