Time 2:00-2:50
Moving from Theory to Praxis: Applying the Organizational Framework for Decolonizing HSIs (For Administrators)
Presenter: Dr. Gina Ann Garcia, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Room: PUB 319 (40 minutes & 10 minutes for Q&A)
This session will focus on moving theoretical ideas about how to best serve Latinx and other minoritized students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) into practice. Participants will learn about the Organizational Framework for Decolonizing HSIs, which is centered on the idea that in order for HSIs to achieve equitable outcomes and experiences for students, they must first recognize the “coloniality of power” that exists within their organizational structures that are preventing students from succeeding within HSIs. Dr. Garcia will break down each dimensions of the framework, including governance, reward structures, and external boundary management, talking more specifically about how to implement these ideas in practice.
Title: From Home Schooling in Gated Communities to Student Leadership in Chicano Ed.
(For Students )
Presenter: C.T. Mexica, Ph.D.; Post-doctoral, Arizona State University
Room: PAT 328 (40 minutes and 10 minutes for Q&A)
I am a proud alumnus of Eastern Washington University’s Chicano Education Program (2004). I am a literary scholar and cultural theorist. Prior to my education at EWU, I was “home schooled” in “gated communities.” That is to say, I am a reformed gangster and former prisoner. Of all the institutions that I have studied, worked, and visited, EWU has had the most impact on my personal and professional development. While at Chicano Ed I was able to become involved in student leadership and, most importantly, the faculty and staff provided an inviting, hospitable, synergistic, and motivating atmosphere. The transformative power of education, for me, began with self-administered syllabi in isolation units and, later, catapulted me into the professoriate through EWU’s Chicano Education and McNair Scholars Program. I will weave the narrative arc of those constellations during this panel presentation.
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Inspired and proud of being an eagle
Preparing to Serve Queer Latinx Students (For Administrators)
Presenter: Vanessa Delgado, M.A., Director of Multicultural Center, Eastern Washington University
Room: PUB 323 (40 minutes and 10 minutes for Q&A)
The workshop will explore the ways a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) faces the reality of operating as a Traditionally Heterogendered Institution (THI). Does an HSI work to include and welcome queer Latinx students
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the term: Traditionally Heterogendered Institution
- Explore how HSIs can be inclusive of Latinx queer students
Infusing the White Space with a rainbow: Training pre-service teachers to become culturally responsive to multiple forms of difference e.g. race, class, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and increase their awareness of multiculturalism
Presenter: Keith Reyes, PhD; Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
Room: PUB 317 (40 minutes and 10 minutes for Q&A)
This session will explore how traditional public school classrooms, and the teacher education programs that train teachers, have historically and in contemporary times served as White space and provide participants with practical, and concrete ways in which they can authentically and genuinely transform a classroom comprised of White space, into a diverse tapestry of rich multiculturalism.
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the historical development and current institutional reproduction of schools/education programs as White Space.
- Analyze various classroom case studies where race is centered alongside other forms of difference within a White Space and evaluate various tentative solutions for their cultural responsiveness to these situations.
- Create an authentically culturally responsive plan for their own classroom (or for when situations involving equity arise).
