Welcome to AAHHE! 

 

The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) is an agent of change for improving education, thus enabling Hispanic students to fully participate in a diverse society. AAHHE works collaboratively with all sectors of education, business, industry, as well as community and professional organizations to enhance the educational aspirations and to meet the needs of a significantly increasing Hispanic population.

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AAHHE Announces Appointment of 2021 Chair and Chair-elect, Eight new BOD Members and Sixteen New Standing Committee Members.

August  9, 2020
The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) is beginning its seventeenth year as the premier national association representing Latinx faculty, administrators, and graduate students in higher education. AAHHE is proud to announce the appointments of:

• Dr. Victor B. Saénz as Chair of the Board of Directors and Dr. Patrick Valdez as Chair-elect for the year 2021-2022.
  
  

• Eight new members to the Board of Directors. Six new Directors were appointed for three-year terms (2021-2024): Drs. Edna Acosta-Belén, Edward Delgado-Romero, Gloria P. Martínez-Ramos, Cristobal Rodriguez, James Rodriguez and Julian Vasquez Heilig. Dr. Claudia García-Louis and Monique Posadas, MA were elected by the membership as Faculty Member at Large and Graduate Student Member at Large, respectively for a two year term. The addition of members to the Board of Directors brings the total number of AAHHE Board members to eighteen. Collectively, the new Directors bring deep experience and understanding of educational leadership, policy, community engagement, diversity, Latinx studies, and social sciences.

• Sixteen association members to Standing Committees, including Finance & Audit, Governance, Membership, Marketing & Public Relations and Programs Committees for the term 2021-2023.
• Finance & Audit Committee: Drs. Walter Diaz and Tony Marin.
• Governance Committee: Drs. Maria Oropeza Fujimoto, David G. Martinez, Anthony De Jesus and Sandra Bertram Grant.
• Marketing & Public Relations Committee: Drs. Yolanda Zepeda and Christian Bracho, Neda Ramirez, MEd and Jacqueline Fuentes.
  
• Membership Committee: Dr. Antonio Duran, Celine Cortes and Sergio A. Gonzalez.
• Programs Committee: Dr. Amber Gonzalez,Carmen Curiel, MSW and Dianne Valvidia.

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AAHHE as signatory on Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History

June 22, 2021
AAHHE has joined with PEN America, the American Historical Association, the American Association of University Professors, Association of American Colleges and Universities, and more than 100 other associations to state our firm opposition to a spate of legislative proposals being introduced across the country that target academic lessons, presentations, and discussions of racism and related issues in American history in schools, colleges, and universities.

As the statement rightly points out, "Americans of all ages deserve nothing less than a free and open exchange about history and the forces that shape our world today, an exchange that should take place inside the classroom as well as in the public realm generally".

You can visit the PEN America or the American Historical Association to read the statement.

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