THE 9th DOWLING COLLEGE PRACTICAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
EDUCATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2014
Symposium: 8.30 AM- 1 PM 
Workshop: Personal Branding and LinkedIn Resumes: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
Please click here to review the Symposium Proceedings
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frank Chong, President Santa Rosa Junior College,
Dowling Ed.D. Alumnus
Prior to joining Santa Rosa Junior College as superintendent/president in January 2012, Dr. Frank Chong served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
Among his key responsibilities at the Department of Education were shaping President Barack Obama's community college agenda, providing leadership in the development of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act, and developing policies related to the President Obama’s national college completion goal. Chong also helped convene four regional community college summits.
From 2006 to 2009, he was president of Laney College in Oakland, and served as president of Mission College in Santa Clara from 2003 to 2006. Chong was dean of student affairs at San Francisco City College from 1993 to 2003.
He served as special assistant to Willie Brown, speaker of the California Assembly, from 1987 to 1991, and in that position created legislation in higher education, mental health, small and minority business affairs and local government. Chong also developed a consortium of more than fifty San Francisco youth organizations to share resources.
Since Chong's arrival in Santa Rosa last year, he has become active in community organizations. He currently serves on the boards of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, Pepperwood Preserve, and the Sonoma County Health Alliance.
Chong has participated on numerous higher education boards, including the Chief Executive Officers Board of the California Community Colleges and the American Council on Education Commission on the Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity. He is a former president and founding member of the national advocacy organization Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education.
Chong has a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley in social welfare and Asian American Studies, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He also completed the Educational Management program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and earned his doctorate in educational administration, leadership and technology from Dowling College in Oakdale, New York.
Chong has received numerous honors, including the Leadership Education for Asian Pacific Americans Award, NAACP Santa Clara County Chapter Diversity Award, and Harvard Club of San Francisco Distinguished Alumni Award.
= Conference Goals =
The mission of Dowling College’s Department of Educational Administration, Leadership and Technology is to develop leaders for social agencies. Participants in this conference represent business, health care, education, and related fields.
Our Annual Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching, and training in social agencies. Our goal is to offer a worldwide connection among educators, students, researchers and practitioners from a wide range of academic fields, who are interested in exploring and contributing to our understanding of leadership of social agencies in a globalized world.
Workshop 1-3 PM: Personal Branding and Optimizing One’s Online Professional Presence.
Sandra Campin is a Personal Branding Strategist, CPRW Professional Resume Writer & LinkedIn Profiler
Sandra Campin is a Former Recruiter, a Global Job Search & Career Transition Consultant, a Personal Branding Strategist, CPRW Professional Resume Writer, and LinkedIn Profiler. She is also the creator of The FLIP Strategy: A Strategy for Attracting & Retaining the Attention of Talent Seekers (2013). Sandra has 5 years of experience consulting clients on their global job searches and personal branding. She has helped clients connect with leading companies (Accenture, Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce) and prestigious executive schools, academic institutions and universities (Berkeley, HEC, INSEAD).
QUESTIONS? Dr. Elsa-Sofia Morote (morotee@dowling.edu), Symposium Chair
Department of Educational Administration, Leadership and Technology
Phone 631-244-1854
Dowling College Oakdale Campus, 150 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY (Hunt Room)
