What is Chicano Programs?
“Chicano Programs promotes and empowers student success through education and development of cultural literacy.”
Services for students include: advocacy for academic, financial, and life issues. E-mail updates provide information about scholarship opportunities, internships and campus events. Free faxing and long distance phone calls when applying for a job or internship. All students are eligible to use services regardless of ethnicity or race.”
Some of the main components of Chicano Programs include:
Support of the 13 Hispanic student organizations in the Hispanic Council
We also offer a full computer lab and printer for students to complete class work
We also offer “Informal Advisement.” We can help you if you:
Have a question about financial aid.
Want to find out how to drop a class.
You want to drop a class but are not sure it’s a good idea or not.
Have a classroom situation you don’t know how to deal with.
Have run out of food but don’t get paid till next week.
Have any situation in your life (including your personal or economic life) that is affecting school.
We administer 4 scholarships, most aimed toward Hispanic students: 1. Danny Villanueva Scholarship. 2. Hispanic Faculty/Staff Caucus Scholarship. 3. Dr. Narcisa Scholarship. 4. Jose A. Garcia Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
To “join” Chicano Programs, just come into our office:
Garcia Annex (between Corbett Center and the Activity Center) Room 138 between 8 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.
We will give you a tour of our area, introduce you around and sign you up on the e-mail list.
You don’t need a reason to come by, just stop by and say “hi!”
Our Web site is http://www.nmsu.edu/~chicano
Work with Faculty, Staff & NMSU administration: Chicano Programs collaborates with faculty, staff and the administration at NMSU on many issues related to diversity. Serving the educational needs of the diverse population of the state of New Mexico is a vital aspect of NMSU’s Land-Grant Mission. Therefore, Chicano Programs advocates for the educational needs of the Hispanic/Chicano populace of the state of New Mexico. The department works in collaboration with other entities to improve outreach to our communities and to our potential students and their families.
We are not “Chicano Studies” (an academic program). Chicano Programs however, does work with “Chicano Studies” on a variety of efforts. The Chair of “Chicano Studies” is Dr. Spencer Herrera in the Department of Languages & Linguistics at NMSU. His e-mail is spencer@nmsu.edu.
This Page is maintained by Chicano Programs Webmaster jamoreno@nmsu.edu
Updated April 2009