César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education
Mission Statement
CECCHE is committed to increasing the outreach, recruitment, retention, graduation and cultural pride of Chicanxs/Latinxs at Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½.
CECCHE warmly welcomes any person, regardless of how they identify. It is also a space for people of all backgrounds to explore, learn, connect and build coalition.
We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are committed to providing a respectful and inclusive environment for every individual.
About CECCHE
We exist because of a strong student activist movement aimed at establishing a more inclusive campus. The César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education (CECCHE) was the result of two years of demands by the Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ RAZA students, supportive community representatives, and key Latinx leaders.
On May 7th, 1993, approximately 120 students gathered to form a campus-wide protest. Students marched through the campus carrying a coffin signifying the death of diversity on campus. Today, the coffin still stands in the CECCHE as a symbol of our past struggles, current victories, and the hope for a better tomorrow. The demands and protests resulted in the formation and establishment of the CECCHE in the spring of 1995.
- Academic Success/ Graduate School Preparation
- Community Building
- Career Readiness
- Cultural & Arte
- Identity Development
- Social Awareness
Although we recognize that “Latino” has been able to center the experiences many communities, it also excludes non-binary people.
We use the alternative term “Latinx” to go beyond gender and establish inclusivity in our language and center.