California holds 25% of the country’s eligible Hispanic voters, yet only 60% of eligible Latinx voters are registered, lower than the national average.
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Estudiantes de Cal Poly dirigen talleres para aumentar la participación de votantes Latinx en la próxima elección
California alberga ¼ de los votantes hispanos elegibles del país, sin embargo, solo 60% de los votantes Latinx elegibles están registrados.
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Empowering Latinx Voices: Inside Cal Poly’s Spanish-Speaking Debate Program
Alejandro Valentin comes from a family of migrant workers. He himself has spent some time under the beating sun, working the fields. Valentin grew up in Salinas to descendents of the Bracero program, a now-extinct migrant farm worker program that facilitated the migration of Mexican farm laborers into the United States from 1942 to 1964. […]
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Cal Poly students respond to the university’s efforts to becoming an HSI
Recently, Cal Poly vocalized its efforts on trying to become a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Throughout October 2023, the campus hosted a series of events and symposiums to discuss how they are approaching this transition and the importance of being a diversity-achieving and inclusive institution.
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Cal Poly Latinx cultural clubs to host first annual Latinx Banquet
Adrian Diaz was walking out of the Robert E. Kennedy Library when he heard a distant but familiar sound. As he kept walking, the sound of stringed instruments grew clearer. What Diaz heard was a mariachi band performing on Baker Lawn celebrating the opening of the Latinx Center for Academic Success and Achievement (La CASA) […]
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‘Hogar lejos del hogar’: El nuevo centro Latinx se abre como un sistema de apoyo para estudiantes
Editor’s note: El artículo fue originalmente escrito en Inglés. En 2020, la estudiante de tercer año de administración de la construcción, Nina Tamayo, tomó una decisión “que le cambió la vida.” Eso fue mudarse de Calexico, su ciudad natal que está a solo cinco minutos de la frontera con México, para asistir a Cal Poly. Al llegar […]
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‘Home away from home’: The new Latinx center opens as a support system for students
In 2020, construction management junior Nina Tamayo made the “life-altering” decision to move from Calexico, her hometown just five minutes away from the Mexico border, to attend Cal Poly. She faced immense culture shock, she said, as well as imposter syndrome — a psychological occurrence when a person doubts their skills, talents and accomplishments —when […]
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‘Be proud of your roots’: Cal Poly students commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month
Editor’s note: This article is available in Spanish here. Business and accounting junior Joanna Gazcón paves the way for her family and other first-generation Cal Poly students, while holding her Hispanic identity close to her heart. Her reality is just one of the many stories that Hispanic Heritage Month highlights each year from Sept. 15 […]
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Cal Poly Plans to Open New Latinx Center in the Fall of 2022
Cal Poly announced plans to open a new Latinx Center in the fall quarter of 2022. The grand opening will occur amidst September’s Hispanic Heritage Month and will feature an opening ceremony and celebration. Hosted in Cal Poly’s Science Building in room E-22, the Latinx Center will be the latest addition to Student Diversity and […]
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“A part of who I am:” San Luis Obispo community celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Sept. 15 marked the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month — a celebration of Latinx culture and, in San Luis Obispo, students and community members join to commemorate this month. Ethnic studies professor Jose Navarro said this month-long celebration aligns with many of the national independence dates of countries in Latin America like Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, […]
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New Mujeres club creates a community for womxn-identifying students of color
Mujeres was founded Winter 2018 as a student-run support group for womxn-identifying students of color.