Arizona Association of Chicanos for Higher Education

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TODAY’S LUNCH AND A POEM:

SO WE GOT TOGETHER FOR LUNCH RECALLING OLD UNIVERSITY STRUGGLES

Yes, we got together for lunch in Tucson,
recalling old college and university struggles
when we could count Chicanaoxs students
on one hand
whether they timidly walked the hallways
in Tucson, Flagstaff, or Tempe.
We remembered how the few of us united
as one fist,
and we travelled up and down, East and West,
seeking to unite the lost
Chicano and Latinx souls in academia.
We organized AACHE and drafted a master plan,
met with the Presidents
of the community colleges and the universities,
discussed student and faculty recruitment,
departments of Mexican American Studies,
Chicana and Chicano Studies curriculum,
college scholarships and Hispanic Graduation,
held BBQ cooking contests and
literary readings.
We were all united up and down
the Grand Canyon State.
Some students became faculty,
some faculty became administrators,
some CCS departments earned a national reputation.
But just like José Montoya warned us
in “The Movement Went to Get Its PhD…”
and in “Los They Are Us,”
division and resentment surfaced and expanded
between university professors and
community college faculty,
where CC professors could not be
the AACHE President,
and university faculty could care less attending
AACHE conferences—beneath their pedigree,
one AACHE Treasurer absconding over
ten thousand dollars for personal expenses,
and eventually one university faculty,
with a special university school project,
needing his President’s support,
via a kitchen cabinet,
said at a CLFSA meeting that
AACHE was no longer needed
and should not be supported,
that it was just an organization
for community colleges, and
nothing much more.
So AACHE lasted a few more years
at the community college level.
In Arizona now, all CCS units act alone
whether at NAU, ASU, U of A,
AWC, CAC, PCC, GCC, PC, or SPC.
Up and down the Grand Canyon State,
neither unit faculty nor unit administrators
know or systematically dialogue with each other,
nor the students in their respective units,
preferring instead to rely on gossip
or communication via a third party.
Yes, no one can deny
that Chicano and Latino student enrollment
has exponentially grown,
there are more faculty on campus,
and being HSI brings money and prestige
to the respective college or university.
Yet a state level organization,
like the 1970s AACHE, is undesirable
because it is so much very ethnic
and should not disrupt an enjoyable alienation
of doing things, up and down the state,
at the level of all American individualism;
after all the Barrio does not match,
at all,
the university product and its high fallooting things.
AACHE is, that is, so passé.

—Túyoílosdemás (MdeJHG), 14 July 2023

Former AACHE members get together for a social get together. Thursday, July 13, 2023.

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