Conocimientos

The Latinx Resource Center and the Office of HSI Affairs are launching Conocimientos y Conexiones! A program aimed at connecting Latinx/e students to SDSU Faculty through social and educational gatherings. Conocimientos goal is for Latinx/e students to expand their social/academic capital by engaging in cultural platicas with SDSU Faculty from similar backgrounds. Lastly, Conocimientos is a platform for SDSU Latinx/e Faculty to actively participate in cultural community reciprocity.

Lonche y Faculty - October 12th, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at LRC 
Cafe Con Comunidad - Nov. 9th, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at LRC

Dr. Villareal - Point of Contact

Mission

We are thrilled to announce the recent opening of the Community Action Research Hub, at the Latinx Resource Center, which operates as an alternative, community-rooted way in which to invite SDSU undergraduate students to access, participate in, and explore research as an element of their experience at SDSU.

Undergraduate participation in research has been shown to positively impact student academic success, as well as integration and belonging on campus. Yet this potentially transformative element of student experience is often left to overtaxed academic departments and faculty to introduce and manage, leaving it somewhat divorced from community and cultural commitments, and the other points of connection students have with campus. The result is a dynamic in which research opportunities often become limited only to students with pre-existing knowledge of research, or those who are lucky enough to happen into personal connections with faculty or departmental research efforts. While SDSU has excellent faculty and a tradition of mentoring student researchers, these limited and often idiosyncratic framings mean that undergraduate research is not always accessible to all students, particularly first-generation, transfer, and students of color, who may have no idea where, how, or with whom, to even begin pursuing research opportunities.

"We aim to foster an accessible culture of humanizing, community-based undergraduate research that is culturally responsive and inviting to all students."

If you wish to connect with the Community Action Research Hub you can drop by the Latinx Resource Center located in the Love Library Room #182. Please see LRC's operating office hours for more information on what days and time you can drop by. 

For any questions, comments, concerns please please contact: