Students are responsible for the establishment of Ethnic Studies at Portland Community College. Following the historic 2016 Forest Grove Walkouts demanding Ethnic Studies and teachers of color, students at Portland Community College in 2018 demanded Ethnic Studies at their college. PCC hired it's first full-time faculty member in 2019.
The CECP is directed by Gabriel Antonio Higuera, Ph.D., Ethnic Studies Professor, in partnership and collaboration with other higher education institutions, school districts, and community organizations, including Pacific University's College of Education, Portland State University's School of Gender, Race, & Nations, Unite Oregon, Hillsboro Public Library, the Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Center (SMYRC), El Centro Cultural de Washington County, Black and Beyond the Binary Collective, Beaverton School District, and Portland School District, to name a few.
Dr. Higuera holds a Ph.D. in Mexican American Studies from the University of Arizona, a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies: Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, The City University of New York, and a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish from Arizona State University. Dr. Higuera was also a student at Portland Community College from 2000-2002.
Dr. Higuera developed and led a Chicanx/Latinx Studies program in 2002-2006 as an undergraduate student at Arizona State University in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona. The Tertulia Resolana: High School - College - Community Collaborative served five central Phoenix high schools with culturally specific dialogical workshops facilitated by community college, undergraduate, and graduate students.
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From 2014-2019, Dr. Higuera directed the Collaborative Research in Action (CRiA) program in Tucson, Arizona. This program saw the recruitment and training of community college and university students who would then guide participating middle and high school students on the processes of participatory action research. K-12 students would be invited to the University of Arizona to share their research on panels moderated by scholars and community leaders. CRiA served seven public schools in Tucson's two largest school districts, and the annual youth conferences at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University over 5 years featured over 1,300 youth presenters on topics centering environmental justice, migrant, immigrant, and refugee rights, women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, youth rights, state violence, education, economic inequities, white supremacy, health and healthcare, politics, and art.
A detailed analysis of this work can be found here: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/636555
The CECP is directed by Gabriel Antonio Higuera, Ph.D., Ethnic Studies Professor, in partnership and collaboration with other higher education institutions, school districts, and community organizations, including Pacific University's College of Education, Portland State University's School of Gender, Race, & Nations, Unite Oregon, Hillsboro Public Library, the Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Center (SMYRC), El Centro Cultural de Washington County, Black and Beyond the Binary Collective, Beaverton School District, and Portland School District, to name a few.
Dr. Higuera holds a Ph.D. in Mexican American Studies from the University of Arizona, a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies: Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, The City University of New York, and a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish from Arizona State University. Dr. Higuera was also a student at Portland Community College from 2000-2002.
Dr. Higuera developed and led a Chicanx/Latinx Studies program in 2002-2006 as an undergraduate student at Arizona State University in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona. The Tertulia Resolana: High School - College - Community Collaborative served five central Phoenix high schools with culturally specific dialogical workshops facilitated by community college, undergraduate, and graduate students.
A detailed analysis of this work can be found here: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/227/
From 2014-2019, Dr. Higuera directed the Collaborative Research in Action (CRiA) program in Tucson, Arizona. This program saw the recruitment and training of community college and university students who would then guide participating middle and high school students on the processes of participatory action research. K-12 students would be invited to the University of Arizona to share their research on panels moderated by scholars and community leaders. CRiA served seven public schools in Tucson's two largest school districts, and the annual youth conferences at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University over 5 years featured over 1,300 youth presenters on topics centering environmental justice, migrant, immigrant, and refugee rights, women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, youth rights, state violence, education, economic inequities, white supremacy, health and healthcare, politics, and art.
A detailed analysis of this work can be found here: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/636555