La CASA

Cultural Appreciation and Student Advocacy

Bienvenidos to the 2024-2025 academic year!

La CASA aims to increase engagement and provide support for Hispanic/Latine, low-income, and historically minoritized students regardless of ethnicity, culture, gender, and intersectional identities. Its purpose is to foster a sense of belonging among Hispanic/Latino students and the entire student body. La CASA will serve as a learning space and provide deliberate programming to highlight Hispanic/Latine, Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander, Black/African American, and Indigenous populations.

Fall Quarter Hours

 

Location

T Building Room 402 (West Side Entrances near MLK Statue)

Meet the Staff!

Services

  • Computers
  • Meeting rooms
  • Meditation Room
  • Kitchen for student use (Coming soon)
  • Free printing
  • Space for social interaction and studying
  • Student advocacy
  • Connections to resources campus and community-wide
  • Cultural, social and academic programming

Additional Services

  • College Assistant Migrant Program (CAMP)
  • Undocumented Student Advocacy Specialist (USAS)
La CASA Location

 

 

 

Campus Resources

The Academic Success Center provides tutoring, peer mentoring, and other resources to help you unlock your academic potential on your journey towards academic success.

ASC

CAMP helps students who come from a migrant or seasonal farm-working background during their first year of college with life changing resources. CAMP offers academic, career, financial and support services to facilitate your transition into college.

CAMP

Disability Support Services (DSS) is dedicated to ensuring equal access and inclusion for all students with either provisional or permanent physical, health, learning, sensory or psychological disabilities. Accommodations may include adaptive equipment, technology, testing, classroom tools and information.

DSS

Our amazing partnership with Second Harvest allows us to stock our pantry with fresh produce, dairy products, bread, as well as dry and canned goods.

Food Pantry

网赌正规真人实体在线平台’s High School Equivalency Program (HEP) helps close the educational gap experienced by migrating families. Our program provides migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their children with an intensive study program to earn their GED® and continue on to college or employment.

HEP

The goal of MESA is to increase the number of historically underrepresented community college students (including African American, Native American, Hispanic/Latinx, Pacific Islander and women) who are interested in pursuing a STEM bachelor’s degree. Ultimately, we aim to diversify the STEM workforce by addressing challenges students like you face in education and career development.

MESA

We are determined in advancing the academic success and holistic thriving of undocumented, Deferred action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and mixed-status families' students. We invite you to explore the support and resources available to you as a future and current student.

Undocu Resources

TRIO SSS students find that the extra support they receive helps them achieve success not only here at 网赌正规真人实体在线平台, but also in their four-year graduation goals and careers beyond college.

TRIO SSS

Upward Bound students participate in both summer and school-year programs and, following high school graduation, are encouraged to enroll in the BRIDGE program—an intensive mentoring opportunity designed to guide students like you through your first summer quarter of college coursework.

Upward Bound

We know that sometimes life makes it difficult to concentrate in class which can keep you from being academically successful. These things aren’t your fault! 网赌正规真人实体在线平台, and our surrounding communities, offer students valuable resources to support you through hard times and support your well-being. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources—it’s what they’re here for!

Well-Being Resources

You can gain access to five federally-funded grant programs that aim to help students like you successfully achieve your workforce education goals. Whether it is financial assistance, help with academic planning, access to computers or even learning about what jobs are available to you, WEC is here to support you!

WEC

 

Multicultural Student Clubs at 网赌正规真人实体在线平台

Halcones de la Libertad (Freedom Hawks)
Meetings: Mondays | 1 PM | La CASA T403

Advisor: Stephanie Fuentes - sfuentesFREECOLUMBIA_BASIN 

Japanese Culture Club

Our Club's goal is to explore Japanese culture in a historical lens as well as exploring modern Japanese culture. our clubs’ interests are broad whether it’s exploring the ancient history of the samurai or exploring Japanese anime and manga and its rise in the united states, wherever your interest in Japanese culture lies the Japanese culture club is the best way to explore it.

Meetings: Biweekly Wednesday | 2 PM | SWL 108

Advisor: Noriko Ryder - nryderFREECOLUMBIA_BASIN

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)


LULAC strives to create, connect, and celebrate our community through the Latin American perspective. We provide cultural and educational service-learning opportunities that develop civic leadership and self-advocacy, all while supporting 
underrepresented communities in an inclusive environment.

Meetings: Mondays | 2 PM | SWL 202
Advisor: Eudelio Martinez - emartinezFREECOLUMBIA_BASIN

contact

  • Email:lacasa@airllevant.com

  • Phone:509-542-4444

  • Address:2600 N. 20th Ave., Pasco, WA 99301T BuildingT402

  • Office Hours:Monday, Wednesday: 7 am to 4:30 pmTuesday, Thursday: 7 am to 7 pmFriday: 7 am to noon

Students walking around 网赌正规真人实体在线平台's Pasco campus