César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education
Mission Statement
Welcome to the César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education (CECCHE)
CECCHE is committed to increasing the outreach, recruitment, retention, graduation and cultural pride of Chicanxs/Latinxs at Cal Poly Pomona.
CECCHE warmly welcomes any person who uplifts our institutional values and principles of community, 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.
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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 Pomona 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.