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LATINX AT THE UO BY THE NUMBERS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

12%

We have more than tripled the number of Latinx undergraduate students in the last 20 years

GRADUATE STUDENTS

7.6%

We have more than doubled the number of Latinx graduate students in the last 20 years

FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES

5.5%

We have ALMOST DOUBLED the number of Latinx faculty and employees in the last 20 years

Latinx students take strong leadership roles all throughout campus! In 2018, Maria Gallegos-Chacon was elected the 2018–19 President of the ASUO. Gallegos-Chacon is an ethnic studies major and the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants.

Through and with her leadership, the ASUO initiates campaigns to improve student experiences, impacting a UO student body of more than 20,000 students.

“I felt isolated at first [when I came to the UO] and then got involved at the Multicultural Center doing community organizing that lead to running for ASUO.

“At some point we either get involved to change it [students from marginalized communities not being at the table] or we just stay on the outside and continue to be mad about it…I often spend most of my days with admin talking with them about issues on campus and bringing up issues about how their potential policies would impact students of color.”

Maria A Gallegos-Chacon
Senior, Ethnic Studies Major
Hillsboro, Oregon

Latinx students take strong leadership roles all throughout campus! In 2018, Maria Gallegos-Chacon was elected the 2018–19 President of the ASUO. Gallegos-Chacon is an ethnic studies major and the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants.

Through and with her leadership, the ASUO initiates campaigns to improve student experiences, impacting a UO student body of more than 20,000 students.

“I felt isolated at first [when I came to the UO] and then got involved at the Multicultural Center doing community organizing that lead to running for ASUO.

“At some point we either get involved to change it [students from marginalized communities not being at the table] or we just stay on the outside and continue to be mad about it…I often spend most of my days with admin talking with them about issues on campus and bringing up issues about how their potential policies would impact students of color.”

Maria A Gallegos-Chacon
Senior, Ethnic Studies Major
Hillsboro, Oregon

LATINX RESOURCES

Student Groups

MEChA

UO Muxeres

LatinX Male Alliance

Latino Law Student Association

UO and Community Connections

LatinX Strategies Group

Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS)

UO Dreamers Working Group

University Counseling Center LatinX Student Specialists

Patos Alumni Network

Centro Latino Americano

Latino Business Network

Downtown Languages

Latino Lane County

Courses

Acting 1 Bilingual (TA 250 offered Winter 2019)

Caribbean Literature and Politics

Intro to Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

Intro to Chicanx-Latinx Studies

Introduction to Chicano Literature

Jews in Latin America

Latina/o Teatro and Asian American Theatre

Chicano/Latino Writers

LatinX Drama

Native Americans and Latinx Americans

Race and Gender in Latin American Studies

“Being a first gen student is very difficult in the sense that you don’t have that initial support from your parents that most students do and specifically when [their parents] don’t speak English ... it’s very difficult to navigate college, even community college, navigating that arena ... so being a first gen student has allowed me to have more empathy for students coming up behind me ...that allowed me to want to go out and reach more students who have a similar background to myself and wanting to make sure they have someone, not necessarily a parent, but someone who has gone through that themselves and can lend a helping hand ... ”

Alvy Macias-Gonzalez
SOCIOLOGY Major
monterey, california

“Being a first gen student is very difficult in the sense that you don’t have that initial support from your parents that most students do and specifically when [their parents] don’t speak English ... it’s very difficult to navigate college, even community college, navigating that arena ... so being a first gen student has allowed me to have more empathy for students coming up behind me ...that allowed me to want to go out and reach more students who have a similar background to myself and wanting to make sure they have someone, not necessarily a parent, but someone who has gone through that themselves and can lend a helping hand ... ”

Alvy Macias-Gonzalez
SOCIOLOGY Major
monterey, california

DREAMERS AT THE UO

The university is committed to promoting the safety, well-being, and success of Dreamers while maintaining their confidentiality and identity. We use the term “Dreamers” to refer to those who are undocumented, participate in DACA, receive tuition equity, or from families with mixed immigration status.

Student immigration status greatly impacts the Latinx community, as well as other communities, most notably many Asian and Middle Eastern communities. We have almost 200 Dreamer allies who have participated in a day-long training to better understand Dreamer student needs and experiences.

UO Dreamers