AACHE's 24th Annual Conference 2007
"Dispelling the Myths: Unveiling Truth"
November 16 & 17, 2007
Phoenix College
1202 W. Thomas Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85013
Friday November 16, 2007 (12:00pm -5:00pm)
Saturday, November 17 (9:00 am - 3:00 pm)
The 24th Annual State AACHE Conference 2007
“Dispelling the Myths: Unveiling Truth”
Friday, November 16, 2007, 12:00-5:00pm
Saturday, November 17, 2007, 9:00am-3:00pm
Phoenix College, 1202 W. Thomas Road, Phoenix, 85013
The purpose of AACHE is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues related to Chicanos/Latinos in higher education and to cooperate in providing workable solutions to these issues. For more information, please visit our website: www.aache.org
The 2007
AACHE
Conference is
dedicated
to the memory
of our past
community
and education advocates who made changes possible so we could
follow in their footsteps in greater numbers. State Representative
Edward G. “Bunch” Guerrero; Stella Favela, AHCF; Dr. Leticia
Galindo, ASU faculty;
Dr. Marta Bernal,
ASU faculty;
Dr. Marcello
Medina,
Founding
Member, UA;
Dr. Joe Griego,
Founding
Member,
GCC;
Mr. Juan Acosta,
ASU-W,
Multicultural
Director
24th Annual AACHE Conference Program
Dispelling the Myths: Unveiling Truth
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 2007
11:30-4:30 Registration at the Bulpitt Auditorium
12:00-12:15 Welcome, Opening Remarks, Presentation of AACHE’s Board for 2006-2007
AACHE President, Jennie Durán, JD
Presentation of Candidates for AACHE Executive Board 2007-2008
AACHE President 2006-2007, Ms. Jennie Durán, NAU
AACHE President 2007-2008, Mr. Antonio Carrillo, AWC
Welcome to Phoenix College
Mr. Jesse De Anda, Vice President for Student Affairs, Phoenix College
Announcements:
Silent Auction — Ms. Liz Archuleta and Dr. José Colchado
Friday Evening Activities — Dr. Amalia Villegas
12:15-12:30 History of AACHE — Dr. Cleopatria Martinez
Recognize AACHE’s Founding Members —Ms. Elza Ávila
Recognize Past AACHE Presidents — Mr. Antonio Carrillo
12:30-1:00 Keynote Address: “Solutions Through Higher Education”
Regent Ernesto Calderón, Vice President, Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR)
1:00-1:30 Respondents:
Dr. Cordelia Candelaria, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University
AACHE Founding Member(s)/Past President(s)
Q/A
1:30-1:45 SPECIAL AWARD
Dr. Ernesto Escobedo, Professor of Mathematics, Glendale Community College
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 2007
1:45-1:50 Break and snacks
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1:50-3:10 Concurrent Sessions
Room A105
1. The Impact of Prop 300 and Beyond: Maintaining and
Expanding the Pool of Future Chicano/Latino College Students
State Representative Kyrsten Sinema
Mr. Luis Ávila, Bachelor of Arts Student, Arizona State University
Ms. Misteline Calleroz, Arizona State University
Presentation: “Latino Physicians: The Pathway to Medicine”
by Ms. Linda Don, University of Arizona
Moderator:
Room A106
2. The Role of Community Colleges in Chicano/Latino Higher Education
Presentation: “Preparing Future Leaders for Arizona and the Nation’s
Community Colleges” by Dr. Michael F. Chávez, Arizona Western
College and Dr. Lorraine Morales, Pima Community College
Presentation: “To Realize a Dream” by Dr. Natalie Hess, Northern Arizona
University in Yuma
Presentation: "The Systemic Roots of Language Oppression" by Dr. José A. Cobas,
Arizona State University
Moderator:
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3:15-4:35 Concurrent Sessions
1. Tenure, Advocacy, and Termination: Room A105
Increasing and Retaining Latino Employees in Higher Education
Mr. Reyes Medrano, Maricopa County Community College District
Dr. José Nańez, Arizona State University
Dr. Manuel Hernández, Arizona State University
Moderator: Mr. Abel Hernández, Phoenix College
2. Preserving our Rich Latino Heritage Room A106
Dr. Christine Marín, Arizona State University
Mr. David M. Rodríguez, Glendale Community College
Ms. Stella Pope Duarte, Author/Educator/Community Activist
Presentation: “Voices from the Camps of Litchfield Park—A Film
Presentation” by Dr. Gloria Cuádraz, Arizona State University
Moderator:
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 2007
4:40-5:00 Preview of tomorrow’s presentation: Myths: The American Way Bulpitt Auditorium
Dr. Mizaba D. Abedi, Arizona Western College, Yuma
Moderator:
5:30-10:00 Dinner -- Comida by Guerrero y Loera On the Pastor Plaza
Evening Entertainment by Phoenix College’s Asociación Latina Estudiantil (A.L.E.)
(Club advisors: Dr. Amalia Villegas and Dr. Julian Vásquez)
Step Dancing: Nite Rhythm Belly Dancer: Karla Marquez
Poesia por Lizeth Rodriquez and Joel Montańo
El Cantante: Alexis Sosa Tacos 24 horas al dia: David Muńoz
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007
8:15-1:00 Registration Bulpitt Auditorium
8:15-8:45 Continental Breakfast Outside of Bulpitt Auditorium
8:45-9:15 Welcome and Announcements Bulpitt Auditorium
Mr. Antonio Carrillo, AACHE President 2007-2008
Voting for Officers is open until 12:00 (Election results will be announced after lunch)
Silent Auction ends at 12:30pm (Ms. Liz Archuleta and Dr. José Colchado)
9:15-9:30 Remembering Past Community Leaders and Educators
Ms. Elizabeth Archuleta
Introducing our Outstanding Employees
Dr. René Díaz-Lefebvre, Glendale Community College
Recognizing Retired Community Leaders and Educators
Ms. Ofelia Cańez, Phoenix College
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9:30-9:45 Presentation of the Bulpitt Auditorium
Rosie López Student Advocate Scholarships
Mrs. Rosie López
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007
9:45-10:20 Keynote Address: “Dispelling the Myths and Unveiling Bulpitt Auditorium
the Truth about Immigration”
Mr. Antonio D. Bustamante, Attorney at Law
10:30-11:50 Impact of Demographic Shifts & Immigration on Chicano/Latino Higher Education
Mrs. Esther Lumm, Member, Arizona Hispanic Community Forum (AHCF)
Dr. Michael F. Chávez , Arizona Western College NAU / AWC Recruiter:
Dr. Lorraine Morales, Pima Community College
Dr. José Náńez, Arizona State University
Mr. Danny Ortega, Attorney at Law
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12:00-12:45 LUNCH IS SERVED BUFFET STYLE On the Pastor Plaza
Announcements
Silent Auction Ends at 12:30
Presentation of AACHE Executive Officers for 2007-2008
2006-2007 AACHE President, Jennie Durán
1:00-2:00 Myths: The American Way Bulpitt Auditorium
Dr. Mizaba D. Abedi, Arizona Western College, Yuma
2:05-2:50 Lessons Learned, Future Projects Bulpitt Auditorium Former and Current AACHE Presidents & Founding Members
3:00 State AACHE Board Transition Meeting Room A105
The Outgoing Executive Board meet with the Newly Elected
Executive Board Chapter Officers
AACHE Chapter Officers and Representatives to the State Board from ASU, NAU, UA, AWC, CAC, GCC, MCCCD, PC, Pima CC are invited to attend the Transition Meeting.
We’ll see you next year when the
AACHE 2008 Conference will be at ASU-Tempe
(Remember 2008 is an election year!)
About the Conference Presenters and Speakers
Dr. Mizaba D. Abedi is a professor of English at Arizona Western College and an English associate professor at Northern Arizona University Yuma Campus
Ms. Elizabeth Archuleta is a member of the County Board of Supervisors for Coconino County and a past president of AACHE
Ms. Elza Ávila, Professor Emeritus for Counseling at Phoenix College, was the MEChA advisor for 17 years and was a past president of the Maricopa Chapter of AACHE and past president of State AACHE.
Luis Ávila is a Bachelor of Arts student at ASU, this summer participated in a hunger strike in support of the Dream Act; has just returned from Washington D.C. where he advocated on behalf of the bill.
Mr. Antonio D. Bustamante (see the Biography below)
Regent Ernesto Calderón (see the Biography below)
Dr. Misteline Calleroz White, Assistant Vice President, University Student Initiatives, Arizona State University.
Dr. Cordelia Candelaria, a Regents’ Professor of English and Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Founding Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, formerly served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus and also chaired the TCLS Department from 2000-05.
Mr. Antonio Carrillo is an Interim Lead Academic Counselor at Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona
Ms. Irene Chávez is a community advocate who is a long-time member of the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum, an outstanding educator, a voice for education at all levels
Dr. Michael F. Chávez is the Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at Arizona Western College
“Preparing Future Leaders for Arizona And the Nation’s Community Colleges” Demographic shifts are changing the landscape of the United States and the implications of these changes for American society are significant, particularly in education. Community college have an obligation to respond to these new demographics by offering programs and services that meet the needs of a more diverse student body; employing highly qualified and diverse administrators, faculty, and staff; providing role models for minority students; and influencing public policy. Unfortunately, at the moment there are very limited numbers of Hispanic educators to engage in this effort. However, the National Community College Hispanic Council Leadership Fellows Program is addressing these issues through the Leadership Fellows Program.
About the Conference Presenters and Speakers
Dr. José A. Cobas, Professor of Sociology, School of Social & Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
Dr. José Colchado, Professor at Northern Arizona University in Tucson, past president of AACHE
Dr. Gloria Cuádraz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Cultures, and History at Arizona State University. Her interests include theory and method in oral history and Chicana/os and graduate education. She has been at ASU for thirteen years.
Dr. René Díaz-Lefebvre, received national acclaim as the first Latino from Arizona to ever receive the National Professor of the Year Award, has been nominated numerous times for the national Bell Weather Award, author of Multiple Intelligence, mentored by H. Gardener, is Professor of Psychology at Glendale Community College
Ms. Linda Don,Director for Outreach and Multicultural Affairs, College of Medicine, University of Arizona.
“Latino Physicians: The Pathway to Medicine” Latino physicians are leading the way in bringing national attention to the health disparities of Latino communities and developing strategies for improved health care. In this session, we will explore the nature of the pathway to medical school and discuss national and local strategies for attracting more Latino students into the medical profession.
Ms. Jennie Durán is the President of AACHE, has a Juris Doctorate from SUNY Buffalo, is a NAU graduate, and is currently working on a PhD in History.
Dr. Ernesto Escobedo is professor of mathematics at Glendale Community College, a past president of AACHE, and a strong community/education advocate.
Representative Kyrsten Sinema has served in the State Legislature since 2004 representing central Phoenix in District 15. She holds a juris doctorate and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Arizona State University. Kyrsten is an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University and practices criminal defense law in the Phoenix community. She also works for the Center for Progressive Leadership, teaching tomorrow’s political leaders about leadership and the political process
Dr. Natialie Hess is professor of Bilingual/Multicultural Education and ESL at Northern Arizona University in Yuma. She has taught ESL/EFL and served as a teacher-educator in six countries. The paper she will present today has been accepted as a chapter in a forthcoming book--“Language Teaching and Learning at Community Colleges: Current Issues, Collaborations and Practice”, edited by Jose Carmona.
“To Realize the Dream” What are the measures and the meanings of success? How and why does success happen? Who are the gate-keepers of success? The writer decided to study such success stories through the lives of five accomplished Chicano women to see what lessons could be gained for her Chicano ESL students.
Mr. Abel Hernández is professor of Business at Phoenix College and is the Club Advisor for MEChA. He is the President-Elect of the Maricopa AACHE Chapter.
About the Conference Presenters and Speakers
Mrs. Rosie Lopez is a powerful and dynamic woman who was the founder (twenty years ago) of the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum and has been honored by having the Rosie Lopez Student Advocate Scholarship named after her
Mrs. Esther Lumm is a past president and a current member of the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum; she is a long-time community activist who has eloquently spoken, on behalf of the Latino community, to school boards and to community college and university governing boards and to the presidents of these educational institutions.
Dr. Christine Marín, a “Distinguished Scholar” and consummate historian, is the Curator/Archivist and Historian of the Chicano/a Research Collection, Department of Archives & Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University.
Mr. Reyes Medrano is the President of the Faculty Senate for the Maricopa Community College District and a faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College
Dr. Lorraine Morales is the Dean of Student Development at Pima Community College
Dr. José Náńez, Executive Director for Community Outreach, Office of the VP for Student Initiatives, Arizona State University
Mr. Danny Ortega is a well-known attorney in Phoenix, a community activist, and a past member of MEChA
Ms. Stella Pope-Duarte, a Phoenix renowned author, former teacher and counselor with Phoenix Union High School, and alumni of Phoenix College who has been recognized internationally for her literary works, most importantly she received the National Alumni of the Year Award (one out of 7 in the country) from the American Association of Community Colleges in 2005.
Ms. ErLinda Torres, past president of AACHE, Sr. Vice President, The Victoria Foundation, the first Latino foundation in the country & founded in Phoenix, Pete Garcia is the new Pres./CEO for the Victoria Foundation, The focus will be to award micro-grants to the Latino community for small non-profits for 1) Community Development, 2) Scholarships/primiarily to ASU/Maricopa colleges 3) Arts & Culture &
4) International Exchange/Faith Based organizations.
Mr. David M. Rodriguez, Department Chair for the Library and Media Services at Glendale Community College, worked with MALDEF on the class action lawsuit currently pending, is the current President of the MCCCD AACHE Chapter and past president of the Glendale Community College AACHE Chapter.
Dr. Amalia Villegas is a counselor at Phoenix College, member of the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum, and is the Club Advisor for the Asociacion Latina Estudiantil (A.L.E.) Club, the largest student club at Phoenix College
State Bar of Arizona
Attorney Profile
Ernest Calderón
Ernest Calderón, a native of Morenci, Arizona and a graduate of Northern Arizona University & the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, practices in all Arizona courts as well as federal courts situated in Arizona, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and other U.S. Circuit Courts. Mr. Calderón founded Calderón Law Offices in 2004 after practicing for more than 20 years with a large Phoenix law firm, with two companies as corporate counsel and as a federal law clerk. He is both “AV Rated” & “Preeminent” listed by Martindale-Hubbell.
His practice areas include Employment & Labor Law; Administrative Law; Professional Licensing; Education Law; Civil Litigation; Significant Personal Injury/Consumer Law; Appellate Law; and Construction Law. He often serves as a Mediator, Arbitrator, and has been appointed a Special Master. He is a member of the prestigious American Law Institute, the Litigation Counsel of America and the American Bar Foundation. He has served five Arizona Governors by appointment. He is a member of the Arizona Board of Regents and serves on the Governor’s P-20 Education Council.
Mr. Calderón served as President of the State Bar of Arizona in 2002-03 – the first person of Hispanic origin to serve as President since the Bar’s founding in 1933. He is one of the State Bar of Arizona delegates to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
Mr. Calderón’s community involvement and honors include Eagle Scout; immediate Past President of the Grand Canyon Council of the Boy Scouts of America; American Red Cross board member; Northern Arizona University Foundation board member; Past President of Valley Leadership; Valley Leadership’s Man of the Year for metropolitan Phoenix; past member of the Arizona Community Foundation; past Chair of the Catholic Community Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix; and a former member of the Arizona Commission on Appellate Court Appointments. Mr. Calderón is a Knight Commander in the Papal Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
Some of Mr. Calderón’s reported cases are Florez v. Sargent, 185 Ariz. 521, 917 P. 2d 250 (1996); R.L. Augustine Const. Co., Inc. v. Peoria Unified School Dist. No. 11, 188 Ariz. 368, 936 P.2d 554 (1997); Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm’n v. Fields, 206 Ariz. 130, 75 P.3d 1088 (Ct. App. 2003); and Gallo v. U.S. Dist. Court For Dist. Of Arizona, 349 F.3d 1169 (9th Cir. 2003).
BOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Antonio D. Bustamante
Antonio D. Bustamante was raised in Douglas, Arizona, and graduated from Douglas High School in 1970. His father’s father was born and baptized at the San Xavier Mission in 1878. . Both of his grandmothers were born in Tucson in the 1880’s. His mother’s father was born in Greece in 1882 and immigrated to the United States in 1900. His father, Antonio Martinez Bustamante, and his mother, Constance Diamos Bustamante, were born in Tucson.
Antonio graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science. During his college years he spent three summers working for the United Farm Workers Union, AFL-CIO. He started the first week of the summer of 1973 as a UFW organizer during the violent grape strike in Coachella, California, but soon became a member of César Chávez’ road staff and was one of a team of young men responsible for moving the revered union leader every place he went as well as providing for his protection round the clock.
In 1976 Antonio enrolled in the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. He turned down admissions to the law schools at Berkeley, Cornell, Duke and Michigan in order to attend the nation’s only accredited clinical law school. The Antioch law clinics provided legal services to underprivileged clients and were funded by the Legal Services Corporation.
On August 16, 1976, Antonio’s first day of classes at Antioch, three undocumented farm workers were brutally tortured and burned with branding irons outside of Douglas, AZ, by members of a prominent ranching family: George Hanigan and his two sons, Patrick and Thomas. Appreciating the advantage of being a law student in Washington, Antonio organized a national letter writing campaign, persuading members of Congress, prominent politicians, civil rights leaders, including César Chávez, and church groups to either demand a trial or at least inquire about why there had been so many delays. Antonio organized the National Coalition on the Hanigan Case to pressure the Justice Department into keeping alive the possibility of a federal prosecution. In August, 1980, after a lengthy trial in Tucson’s U.S. District Court, the Hainan jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict and was declared hung. The difficulty of overcoming engrained, racist antagonism toward Mexicans was alive and well among one-third of the jurors. Another organizing effort was mounted in Washington, D.C. When numerous members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives signed a letter urging that justice be pursued, the DOJ and ordered its prosecutors to go forward with a re-trial in federal court. In March, 1981, there finally were federal court verdicts. Patrick Hanigan was convicted.
After graduating from Antioch in 1980, Antonio returned to Arizona, took the state’s bar exam and went into private practice in Tucson. As a struggling, newly admitted member of the bar with a wife and children, he was given his first break in the world of lawyering when long-time civil rights activist/attorney William J. Risner gave him greatly appreciated counsel, office space rent-free and the physical resources with which to start out. From 1982 to 1989 Antonio practiced criminal, immigration, family and civil rights law and civil litigation in Tucson. In December, 1989, he moved to Phoenix and has been a solo practice criminal defense lawyer. During 25 years as a lawyer, he has advocated in favor of a number of human rights issues and civil rights cases affecting Chicanos/Latinos and immigrants.
Founding Members of AACHE
Arizona State University Northern Arizona University
Luis Aranda Manuel Rodriguez
Miguel Arciniega
Barbara Flores Mesa Community College
Eugene Garcia Margartia Pagan
Beatrice Meza
Miguel Montiel Pima Community College
Raymond Padilla Hank Oyama
Larry Toledo
Arizona Western College
Luis Barajas Rio Salado Community College
Moses Camarena Andrew Bernal
Alfonso Soliz Armando Gonzalez
Lionel Martinez
Cochise College
Trini Armenta South Mountain Community College
Raul Cardenas
Glendale Community College Richard Morales
Martha Combel
Mario Esquer Scottsdale Community College
L. Joe Griego Tony Nunez
Manuel Griego
Ernest A Lara University of Arizona
Homero Lopez Celestino Fernandez
Joaquin Montemayor Marcello Medina
ErLinda Torres Jose Ruiz
Macario Saldate
Maricopa Community College
Alfredo de los Santos
Raul S. Monreal
Phoenix College
Elza Avila
Johnny Cordova
Past AACHE Presidents
1982-83 Alfredo de los Santos
1st 1983-84 Miguel Arciniega
2nd 1984-85 Macario Saldate
3rd 1985-86 Mary Alcon
4th 1986-87 D. Navarette
5th 1987-88 John Cordova
6th 1988-89 Celestino Fernandez
7th 1989-90 Joaquin Montemayor
8th 1990-91 Jose Colchado
9th 1991-92 Robert Mena
10th 1992-93 Erlinda Torres
11th 1993-94 Elza Avila
12th 1994-95 Cleopatria Martinez
13th 1995-96 Juan Garcia
14th 1996-97 Santos Vega
15th 1997-98 Elizabeth Archuleta
16th 1998-99 Ernesto Escobedo
17th 1999-00 Manuel Hernandez
18th 2000-01 Edwardo Delci
19th 2001-02 Edwardo Delci
20th 2002-03 Manuel Hernandez
21st 2003-04 Ernesto Escobedo
22nd 2004-05 Antonio Arroyo
23rd 2005-06 Elizabeth Archuleta
24th 2006-07 Jennie Duran
Acknowledging Our
Retired Community Leaders and Educators
Elza Avila, MECHA Advisor 17 years, Phoenix College counselor
Joe Eddie Lopez, Legislator, PUHS Board Member
Rosie Lopez, founder Arizona Hispanic Community Forum (AHCF)