AAHHE Announcements

AAHHE Announces Appointment of 2021 Chair and Chair-elect, Eight new BOD Members and Sixteen New Standing Committee Members.

August  9, 2021

The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) is beginning its seventeenth year as the premier national association representing Latinx faculty, administrators, and graduate students in higher education. AAHHE is proud to announce the appointments of:

• Dr. Victor B. Saénz as Chair of the Board of Directors and Dr. Patrick Valdez as Chair-elect for the year 2021-2022.
  
  

• Eight new members to the Board of Directors. Six new Directors were appointed for three-year terms (2021-2024): Drs. Edna Acosta-Belén, Edward Delgado-Romero, Gloria P. Martínez-Ramos, Cristobal Rodriguez, James Rodriguez and Julian Vasquez Heilig. Dr. Claudia Garcia-Louis and Monique Posadas, MA were elected by the membership as Faculty Member at Large and Graduate Student Member at Large, respectively for a two year term. The addition of members to the Board of Directors brings the total number of AAHHE Board members to eighteen. Collectively, the new Directors bring deep experience and understanding of educational leadership, policy, community engagement, diversity, Latinx studies, and social sciences.

• Sixteen association members to Standing Committees, including Finance & Audit, Governance, Membership, Marketing & Public Relations and Programs Committees for the term 2021-2023.
• Finance & Audit Committee: Drs. Walter Diaz and Tony Marin.
• Governance Committee: Drs. Maria Oropeza Fujimoto, David G. Martinez, Anthony De Jesus and Sandra Bertram Grant.
• Marketing & Public Relations Committee: Drs. Yolanda Zepeda and Christian Bracho, Neda Ramirez, MEd and Jacqueline Fuentes.
  
• Membership Committee: Dr. Antonio Duran, Celine Cortes and Sergio A. Gonzalez.
• Programs Committee: Dr. Amber Gonzalez,Carmen Curiel, MSW and Dianne Valvidia.