拥抱Servingness
PCC has met the eligibility criteria as 一个溪 since 1990. In its commitment to embrace its identity as 一个溪, PCC intentionally roots its work in Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x scholarship, including the notion of Servingness, to support Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x 学生的成功. Dr. 吉娜一个. García, a national expert on Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), defines servingness as the ability to...“enroll and educate Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students through a culturally enhancing approach that centers Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x experiences and ways of knowing,” “transform organizational structures for serving, and to provide experiences that lead to academic as well as liberatory 结果." As an equity-minded learning community, together we will propel PCC into becoming a truly Hispanic-serving institution.
What Does it Mean to be 一个溪?
An institution of higher education is designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) when at least 25% of its undergraduate full-time equivalent students identify as “Hispanic” – or, as we use throughout our College, Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x -- at the end of the award year immediately preceding the date of application.
luck18app下载 qualifies as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) because over 50% of its student 人口 falls under the category of “Hispanic,” the majority of whom are of Mexican and Central American origin. 的 Title V 奖助金 team recognizes the problematic nature of this and other categorizations and labels for a sector of the student 人口 who has (or chooses to center) Indigenous origins from both the northern and the southern regions of the Americas. Indigeneity is an important focal point to highlight, especially given the recent dissemination of the 2020 Census. 人 were informed that they were required, by law, to submit their responses either electronically or by mail. According to the 2020 Census, if one is to identify as Mexican, Mexican American, and/or Chicano—or for that matter Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Colombian, Guatemalan, Spaniard, Ecuadorian, etc.——必须 also, by default, agree to Hispanic or Latin origins.
的 inherent “logic” of the question disallows for an affirmation of Indigenous origins—origins that are dominant and existed before the arrival and invasion of the Spanish and their European/Latin ideologies, languages, and religions to the ancestral lands from where so many of our students and their families have emerged. Additionally, this Indigenous history existed long before the U.S. federal government developed standards provided 由美国.S. Office of Management and Budget for collecting data on race and “Hispanic” origin, an origin that privileges and centers Euro-colonial origin and identity.
To serve our students, we must respect, not impose, their origins or identity, especially those that have been a focus of erasure and misrepresentation for centuries whereby the many thousands of years represented by their Indigenous history, knowledge, and cultures has been and continues to be disappeared. As advocates of equity 结果 and social justice in education, it is important that we commit to continued learning, unlearning, and relearning to be of true service to our largest and most diverse student 人口.
With respect to the 7 generations before us and after us,
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Artwork by Victoria Raine Corona (转移red from PCC to CSULA in 2019)
PCC Latina/o/x Chicana/o/x 历史
- 1800年代以前
- Kizh/Tongva people are the first to inhabit and build community on this land.
- 1833
- 的 San Gabriel Mission is secularized. Doña Eulalia Pérez de Guillen de Mariné receives 14,000 acres of Rancho San Pascual, which includes what will later become Pasadena, San Marino, parts of La Cañada, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena.
- 1886
- City of Pasadena is incorporated.
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20世纪 - Mexican-descent people labor on the railroad, in fields, in private homes, and as 城市的建设者. 的y live in 3 segregated neighborhoods throughout Pasadena.
- 1897
- Maria de Guadalupe Evangelina López is the first Spanish-surnamed student to graduate from Pasadena High School. In 1902, she becomes the youngest instructor on record 南加州大学.
- 1914
- Junipero Serra School, the first of 2 segregated Mexican 学校s, opens in the southwest 帕萨迪纳的一部分.
- 1915
- Titleyville School, later known as Chihuahuita, opens as 2nd segregated Mexican 学校 在帕萨迪纳东部. On its location now sits our PCC Foothill campus.
- 1924
- Pasadena Junior College first established on the Pasadena High School campus.
- 1947
- Xochimilco Club at Pasadena Junior College created “to further the ideals of racial equality” and encourage the retention of Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students at the 学校.
- 1971
- Manny Pérez, who grew up in Chihuahuita, becomes first Mexican American dean at PCC. This is preceded by becoming the first Mexican American teacher in the Pasadena Unified School District in 1958.
- 1982
- Jaime Escalante, PCC alumnus, successfully teaches 18 mostlyLatina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students at Garfield High School to pass the AP Calculus exam. While the College Board originally accuses the students of cheating, this claim is proved false and Escalante’s teaching ultimately receives national recognition.
- 1990
- For the first time on record, PCC has met the eligibility criteria to be designated 一个溪.
- 1991
- 的 PUENTE Project established its first cohort at PCC.
- 1994
- 的 first Adelante Mujer Latina, a daylong career conference, is held at PCC. 的 largest gathering of Latina youth in the state, it is now part of the programming of the Adelante Youth Alliance, a community partner of PCC.
- 1999
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MESA从PCC开始
- 2000
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PCC’s first Title V HSI grant awarded
- 2005
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Adriana Ocampo, a PCC alumna ’77, is named Science Mission Director for the Planetary Science Division at NASA. Her leadership includes oversight of the missions to Jupiter 到冥王星.
- 2008-2010
- PCC offers the Chicano Studies Academic Travel & 出国留学 Program in partnership with Colegio de Español y Cultura Mexicana (CEPE), de la Universidad de Guadalajara, 墨西哥哈利斯科州. Over 60 students (majority Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x) participate in this program benefiting from the culturally relevant and responsive opportunity to connect to historic and sacred sites in locations including, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Colima, Zacatecas, Ciudad de México, formerly Distrito Federal, Nayarit among others.
- 2009
- 通路中心的 .XL Summer Bridge-FYE Program - On September 30, 2009 the Pathways 中心的 .XL Summer Bridge/First-Year Experience Program was recognized in Washington, D.C. by Excelencia in Education as an Example 的Excelencia. This is a national initiative to accelerate Latino 学生的成功 在高等教育中. XL was selected as a Finalist at the Associate 水平.
- 2012
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Establishment of the Association of Latino Employees (ALE)
- 2012
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JAM Excelencia - On October 2, 2012 the Jam program was recognized in Washington, D.C. by Excelencia in Education as an Example 的Excelencia. This is a national initiative to accelerate Latino 学生的成功 在高等教育中. Jam was selected as a Finalist at the Associate 水平.
- 2014
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First Year Pathways Program Excelencia - On September 30, 2014 PCC's First Year Pathways program was recognized in Washington, D.C. by Excelencia in Education as an Example 的Excelencia. This is a national initiative to accelerate Latino 学生的成功 在高等教育中. First Year Pathways was selected as a Finalist at the Associate 水平.
- 2016
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Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students represent 51% of the PCC student body, which the College celebrates on Día de la Raza that Fall.
- 2018
- Bright Spot Honoree - On September 13, 2018 PCC Pathways was recognized as a Bright Spot by Ed Trust--West at its Education Equity Forum in Sacramento, CA. Ed Trust-West advocates for educational justice and the high academic achievement of all California students, particularly those of color and living in poverty.
- 2018
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PCC, with the support of the Chicana and Chicano Studies 学生服务 Fund and ALE (Association of Latino Employees) hosts its first ever Indigenous 人s’ Day Event on October 8, 2018, “Planting Memories of Our Roots: Sembrando Memorias de Nuestras Raices.” A mural exhibit was installed in Creveling Lounge to acknowledge the ancestral wisdom lineage and the Indigenous origins of the campus’ largest student 人口, many of whom are of Mexican and Central American descent.
- 2019
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For the second time in a row, PCC is recognized as one of the Top 10 community colleges in the country by the Aspen Institute.
- 2020
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Abriendo卡米诺 to Excellence: PCC Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x Student Data Symposium
— Excerpted mostly from Latinos in Pasadena (2009) by Roberta H. 马丁内斯.
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