Oct. 9, 2023 – The campus community is invited to the next HSI Speaker Pláticas, featuring José M. Aguilar-Hernández, Ph.D. on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. in El Dorado Hall (Zoom option available).
In his plática, "Cultivando para transformar el futuro: 1990s Student Activism & Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI’s)", Aguilar-Hernandez will discuss 1990s Student of Color activism in higher education in California and beyond. Specifically, he charts the ways that students mobilized to improve the campus racial climate for Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x students by demanding the creation of cultural centers and Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x Studies. He will argue that student activism helped lead the increase of C/L students in higher education, thereby leading universities to acquire the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation.
However, the HSI designation isn't enough. Aguilar-Hernández argues that student activism has the potential to transform California universities to better meet the needs and demands of their students and communities.
José M. Aguilar-Hernández is the son of immigrant farmworkers from Zacatecas, México. He was born and raised in the Ventura County, and his trajectory in higher education began locally at Moorpark College. After completing his studies at Moorpark, he transferred to UCLA, where he received his B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. Currently, he is an associate professor of Educational Leadership & Ethnic and Women’s Studies and the Director of the Office for Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies Teaching and Scholarship at Cal Poly Pomona.
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For more information contact Mónica Ocampo at monica.ocampo@csuci.edu.
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