A Note from Southwestern Region VP Ann Wright

Jan. 2010

Southwestern News

VP Ann Wright

Our Southwestern Regional Forum is just around the corner, and I look forward to seeing many of you Feb. 3–5 at the Renaissance Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas. The regional forum will offer an engaging program designed to elicit powerful solutions you can apply to your community, your students and your success. Some of the highlights include a keynote presentation by Deborah Jewell-Sherman of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a question-and-answer session with College Board Chief Operating Officer Herb Elish and an awards presentation by Arkansas State Senator Joyce Elliott. It’s not too late to sign up! Visit www.collegeboard.com/swforum for details.

Higher education officials will want to arrive early on Wednesday to participate in our free preforum sessions on Student Search Service® or federal student aid reform. From 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., you can join us in a workshop and learn how the Student Search Service can help your institution’s enrollment office discover ways to be more strategic in your outreach to prospective students. Or you can participate in an interactive, thought-provoking session where you will hear the latest developments in federal student aid, learn how proposed changes will impact students and discuss how institutions can steward the distribution of their resources in parallel with a remodeled federal process.

The Southwestern Region boasts many excellent educators, and I would like to particularly commend four this month: Sara M. Bonser, principal of Williams High School in Plano, Texas; Sarah Chu-Chao Tsai, AP® Chinese teacher at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas; Tom Halbert, AP Computer Science teacher at Cypress Creek High School in Houston, Texas; and Glenda Holifield, AP Chemistry teacher at Jonesboro High School in Jonesboro, Ark. By their steadfast efforts to promote and expand AP, they have earned the Southwestern Region AP Award, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated long-term and multifaceted involvement with the AP Program. Congratulations to them!

Additionally, former K–12 Educational Manager Jim Lindsay has taken on a new role as Director of District Outreach, providing a valuable resource to schools and districts as they seek out federal and private grants.

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