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Hispanic Caucus

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Our Vision

The Hispanic Caucus at Walla Walla Community College is a group of faculty and staff dedicated to supporting WWCC’s commitment to equitable and innovative learning opportunities by building a strong community dedicated to student success.

Our Mission

The active engagement of our Hispanic/Latino staff, faculty, and partners will foster in our students a strong cultural and linguistic connection to our college and give them confidence that the resources we provide will sustain and support them in achieving their dreams.

Objectives:

Student Success

To model and inspire our students to consider professional lives of service and education as reachable goals for them and their families.
To involve students in the planning of programs, workshops, and cultural events to inspire in them a commitment not only to WWCC, but also to their own futures.
Our students need teachers, champions, and mentors. We see our caucus helping our students to find people to fill those roles during their time at WWCC.
We know that those students we guide and empower will, in turn, serve as powerful mentors and teachers to the generations of students who come after them.

Strong Communities

To strengthen our campus community by making visible to our students our Hispanic/Latino staff and faculty who can help guide students as they navigate their educational choices and think about their future paths.
To create new academic partnerships for our faculty, learning avenues for our students, and networking opportunities for our staff.
To be a key partner in expanding our college’s relationship to our greater Northwest community. We will do this by reaching out to our alumni, friends, and family to cultivate a community network and develop a forum in which students, faculty, and staff can learn from the experiences, wisdom, and knowledge of this diverse group.

Resource Stewardship

We aim to build on the work of our faculty and staff by providing concrete opportunities to share our collective knowledge and first-hand stories about the challenges and opportunities facing Hispanic/Latino people in the Pacific Northwest today.
We also strive to be engaged with regional and national conversations about issues of relevance to the Hispanic/Latino community and to ensure that our local work in informed by broader national trends and aligns with best practices.
Our college is also a resource that alumni and community members can always tap into: our faculty and staff are valuable resources that can help businesses and professionals innovate as the economic, social, and cultural landscape shifts.