Welcome
to
UA Student Union Senior Ballroom
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks & Introduction
Liz Archuleta, AACHE Executive State Board President
8:45 a.m. Welcome by University of Arizona President Peter Likins: Video Presentation
Jaime Gutiérrez, Assistant Vice-President
Office of Community Relations
University of Arizona
9:00 a.m. The Future Status: Bilingual Education
Speaker: Silvia Argueta
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
Staff Attorney - California
9:30 a.m. B r e a k
9:45 a.m. The Future Status: Chicano Studies K-16
Speaker: Rodolfo Acuña
Professor
California State University - Northridge
10:15 a.m. B r e a k
10:30 a.m. Reactor Panel: Concurrent Sessions
The Future Status: Bilingual Education
Moderator Richard Ruíz, Department Chair
Language, Reading & Culture University of Arizona
Professor Hispanic Outreach
Bilingual Education
Sunnyside Unified School District
4:15 p.m. AACHE Resolutions Presentation Rincon Room
JD García , Professor
Physics Department
University of Arizona
UA Student Union, Senior & Arizona Ballroom
AACHE Menudo Breakfast: Rincon Room
8:30 a.m. Welcome
8:40 a.m. How and Why the Report Was Prepared
8:50 a.m. Research Study: Minority Student Achievement and Workforce Success in Arizona
9:50 a.m. Impact of the Report - Panel Discussion
10:30 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
12:00 noon Networking Luncheon: SU Arizona Ballroom
12:45 p.m. Keynote Address: Bridging the Equity Gap in Education and Employment
Arturo Gonzáles, Assistant Professor
Adela De La Torre, Director
Mexican American Research & Studies Center
University of Arizona
John García, Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Arizona
1:15 p.m. Where Do We Go From Here?
1:30 p.m. Conference Concludes
FIFTEEN ANNUAL
AACHE CONFERENCE
"Celebrating Fifteen Years of Initiatives For Our Community"
TEN RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by AACHE membership on November 19, 1998
WHEREAS AACHE's purpose is to provide a foundation to support issues concerning Chicano Studies;
WHEREAS community leaders, teachers and students have come together to promote educational support for Chicano Studies in the State of Arizona;
WHEREAS Arizona has a fifty-year history of failed English emersion;
WHEREAS Proposition 227 and other similar initiatives are clones of this fifty-year emersion program;
WHEREAS AACHE acknowledges that bilingual education is the best methodology for supporting limited English proficient students--and all Latino students;
THEREBY the following ten resolutions have been adopted by the AACHE membership:
1. There should be Chicano Studies in "every school" in the State of Arizona, grades K-12.
Every school means all public and private institutions of learning.
2. Chicano literature should be mainstreamed into existing curriculum.
3. Chicano Studies should be included in the State standards.
4. Support legislature to effectuate change in curriculum.
5. Teacher preparation should include course content and teacher training in Chicano Studies which recognizes and addresses personal biases.
This would include:
A. Creating a teacher endorsement in Chicano Studies
B. Require diversity training in student teaching.
C. Coordination of Chicano Studies with other teacher education programs and disciplines.
6. Research consensus on the definition of Chicano Studies.
7. Recognize that Bilingual Education is language study and Chicano Studies is an interdisciplinary program.
8. Take action to implement Chicano Studies.
9. AACHE will focus on developing and supporting efforts for educating the State of Arizona on the best methodology for the language of minority students.
Possible strategies to accomplish these goals:
- Establish a cohesive marketing campaign, which includes the hiring of media exports, to emphasize the positive contributions of bilingualism and multilingualism to society.
- Network with other organizations, businesses/corporations, high profile individuals and other parties who share AACHE's philosophy.
10. Get Chicanos elected to public office.