Latino Student Union, Bowling Green State University, records
Collection Overview
Dates
- Creation: 1967-2015
Extent
7.6 Cubic Feet
Biographical / Historical
The Latino Student Union at Bowling Green State University was formed in the early 1970s. The goals of the Latino Student Union were to educate, celebrate, and share the rich, diverse, cultural Latino heritage with the university community (faculty, staff and students) and the surrounding communities; and by doing so, they asked Bowling Green State University to actively engage in: (1) promoting higher education within the Latino community by actively recruiting the Latino students in high school; (2) the employment of Latino faculty and advisors needed to assist the Latino students during their studies and on to graduation; (3) providing courses and textbooks pertaining to Latino history and culture; (4) providing funds for Latino programming.
The name of the organization was originally La Union de Estudiantes Latinos, but it was shorted to Latino Student Union due to the lengthy name and difficulty with the Spanish pronunciation by non-Spanish speaking individuals.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Arrangement
This collection has had several additions and they are organized at the end of the collection in the order received. The original part of the collection is broken down into several series, including correspondence, subject files, and activity files. Although subsequent additions tend to contain more recent materials, there is some overlap in dates between their contents and that of the original portion of the collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Most of the original Latino Student Union collection was donated by former Latino Student Union executive board members and alumni such as Luis (Garcia) Linares, Consuelo Contreras Hernandez, Gloria Enriquez Pizana and Dr. Rolando Andrade. The exact sources of subsequent additions to the collection are unknown, but are assumed to be individuals involved with the Latino Student Union.
- Title
- Guide to the Latino Student Union, Bowling Green State University, records
- Author
- Cindy Radford
- Date
- January 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English