![]() “Gus” Chavez Faculty Scholar position will remain with the Chicana and Chicano Studiesĭepartment, with more information to come from the department on this point soon.Īs I step away from intensive work with the LRC, I certainly will not be absent. Member to take on some teaching responsibilities associated with this role, the Augustine While the LRC will be welcoming a new staff Means new structures are needed and more support than a professor splitting time multiple Tenure-track faculty during these past years. Organizational and programming efforts, the partnerships with other cultural centersĪnd campus partners, the connections to departments, and to serve as a link to the I will say again that it has been my honor to support all the LRC and student leader’s The LRC and its full scope of programming over these foundational five years reflectĪn important contribution in pushing SDSU forward as a new kind of HSI. GAs and peer mentors, and CCRH organizers, with whom I worked most directly to authorĪnd bring these two programs to life based on needs you identified on campus. Of these endeavors, I will give a special shout out of appreciation to the COMUNIDAD Out of these conversations came a variety of programs, including the COMUNIDAD programĪnd the Culturally Connected Research Hub (CCRH). Leaders identified that spanned not just student life issues, but concerns aroundĪcademic experiences and excellence as well. Of identity, involved reflective praxis, and met a set of unique needs our student ![]() Together, we ensured that our programs were grounded in robust understandings Lucky to be able to offer conceptual guidance to these visioning and program developmentĮfforts. We crafted a core mission statement and principles, responded to challenges both smallĪnd large, found a shared voice to speak to issues that face SDSU’s Latinx community,Ĭommissioned the LRC’s logo and murals, and supported one another as individuals,īoth personally and professionally, as folks followed their passions, values, andĬommitments to imagine powerful programming, and brought those ideas to fruition.įurther, as the connection between the LRC and the campus’ academic faculty, I was Student leaders and staff, we worked persistently toward the goal of forging a culturalĬenter for SDSU’s Latinx population that unapologetically grounds itself in explicitĬommitments to racial and social justice, guided by a student-centered mission. Sánchez Garcia and Assistant Director Erik Esqueda. Part of the LRC’s original, pioneering leadership team, with its first Director Yesenia More concretely, my position as the Gus Chavez Faculty Scholar allowed me to form Innovative spirit, vision, and commitment to our cultura and racial justice that our students have brought to the center as it has grown andĮvolved from ideation to physical space, through a pandemic and virtual programming, It is inspiring to witness the brilliance, Leaders during these foundational five years. I am profoundly grateful to haveīeen invited and entrusted to work and learn alongside some truly exceptional student The commitment, perseverance, and vision I have seen from our studentsĭuring my time with the LRC has been phenomenal. To see all those issues he fought for manifest themselves in our LRC student foundersĪnd leaders. It has been a privilege to serve in this role and honor his legacy, and And he was, of course, a fierce advocate for He helped found the CCS department in 1969, the Chicano/a Collection Was a visionary activist who believed that the university should always be accountable Since 2020, I have served as the inaugural Gus Chavez Faculty Scholar. (which had for years been SDSU’s unofficial hub of Latinx student organizing). It was first only a concept, but now exists as a physical locationĪdjacent to the CCS Department’s Chicana and Chicano Collection space in the library They organized and pushed for the formation of a Latinx cultural center on campus.Īs we strategized, regrouped, and imagined new possibilities, the LRC as we know it Semester after my arrival to SDSU as an assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies-as I have been privileged to have worked closely with these groups since early 2018-a To supporting our founding student leaders from AChA, CAFE, EWB, and MEChA. The Chicana and Chicano Studies (CCS) Department has been deeply committed for decades
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