Latino Cultural Affairs, 1993-2016

The Latino Cultural Affairs first began as the Hispanic Alliance of Columbia College (HACC), which was formally presented to students in March of 1988. Student Nelson Maldonado had the idea of starting a club where Hispanics could help each other out in school and share different cultures with the rest of the student body. At the time, Latino students only made up seven percent of Columbia's student body. The initial goals of the club was to create a place where Hispanics could find support and express cultures within their college community, and then branch out into the community to find sponsorship and help encourage minority high school students to stay in school and work to achieve success.

The Hispanic Alliance of Columbia College Chicago was later morphed into the Latino Cultural Affairs Office in October 1994. The organization became part of the Student Services Department and created a mission to develop a comprehensive program of social, cultural, and educational events that will creatively bring into focus current issues pertaining to Latinos. The Latino Cultural Affairs, throughout the 1990's, would not only host and participate in events and programs with the college or Chicago community, but also events occurring in the country and abroad. In the mid-1990's, Latino Cultural Affairs created an academic and cultural agreement with University of Guadalajara, Mexico that is still intact today.

The Latino Cultural Affairs collection dates 1993-2016 in 4.31 cubic feet (4 boxes). The collection strength of Latino Cultural Affairs is paper and photographic records pertaining to various events that occurred within and outside of Columbia College Chicago, such as Day of the Dead, Latinos in the Arts, relations with University of Guadalajara, and audiovisual material of student film submissions for Latino Student Film Festival.

The collection also includes records on documentation and information on the effort of minority student development and higher representation of Latinos within higher education, papers on the office and faculty of the Latino Cultural Affairs office, sound tracks of event music and tourist/cultural areas in Latin America, and various posters of events hosted by or inclusive of Latino Cultural Affairs.

This collection had been arranged into five series. The first three series have been arranged by subject and the fourth and fifth series are arranged by format. The first series has three sub-series, which are arranged by subject. Within each series and sub-series, materials are arranges chronologically.

Series 1: Programs/Events, 1993-2016 Sub-series 1: Internal Sub-series 2: External Sub-series 3: Abroad Series 2: Minority Higher Education Development, 1994-1999 Series 3: OFfice/Faculty, 1994-2000 Series 4: Media, 2002-2006 Series 5: Posters, 2001-2007

Folder/Item Title, (date). Series Title, Latino Cultural Affiars records, College Archives and Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago.

RG 06.09 Student Affairs

The entirety of the Latino Cultural Affairs collection is available to all users.

Any unprocessed items added to the collection that are not in this current inventory will become available for all users once the Archivist has updated the collection's description.

Materials are the property of Columbia College Chicago. Intellectual property rights of work belong to the original creators. Materials within the collection that are published and copyrighted maintain their copyright protections and must be used according to United States Copyright Law. Use of this collection and its materials is understood to be primarily for research, teaching, and creative study; additional uses, such as publication, exhibition, or other appropriate purposes may be considered upon consultation with the Archivist.

All physical materials and reformatted media must be viewed during a scheduled appointment time within the College Archives & Special Collections office. No materials are to be circulated unless otherwise consulted with the Archivist.

Access to some audiovisual media in the collection, such as VHS or audio cassette, may be temporarily unavailable pending digital reformatting.

Access to reformatted media in the collection, such as VHS, audio cassette, phonographic records, or computer files, must be viewed within the College Archives & Special Collections office during a scheduled appointment. Although reformatted, these items cannot be sent electronically nor can be published in our online database due to copyright restrictions. A computer and other necessary equipment will be provided during the appointment to access these materials.

A bulk of the materials for this collection were transferred to the Library in 2004 by Anna Maria Soto.

An accession of records and audiovisual materials were transferred to the Archives in Fall 2016; See Accession no. 2016_0023

• NamesColumbia College (Chicago, Ill,). Latino Cultural Affairs