{"id":347,"date":"2011-11-15T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/virtualsantaclara\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2011-12-03T01:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:26:45","slug":"breaking-through-the-homogenous-student-body-francisco-jimenez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/virtualsantaclara\/moving-towards-diversity\/breaking-through-the-homogenous-student-body-francisco-jimenez\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Through the Homogenous Student Body: Francisco Jim\u00e9nez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fig. 1: Francisco Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 1960s were a decade when SCU began to break away from its homogenous, upper-middle class white male student body.\u00a0 Francisco Jim\u00e9nez \u2013 a writer, academic administrator, and professor at SCU \u2013 was one of the original first generation Mexican students to attend Santa Clara.\u00a0 When he was a Spanish and History major at SCU in the early 1960s, the vast majority of students attending Santa Clara had a family history of college education.\u00a0 Jim\u00e9nez was a first generation, scholarship-funded college student who worked three jobs to support his family while in school.\u00a0 In his books, Jim\u00e9nez gives a voice to the increasing number of immigrant and first-generation college students, while also voicing the issues of migrant agricultural workers and their families that face political and practical difficulties of immigration.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 2: One of Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s books, Senderos Fronterizos (Breaking Through) is about his childhood and adolescence as an alienated immigrant to California who ultimately becomes the first in his family to attend college.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jimenez has written a few books, three of which are autobiographical.\u00a0 They illustrate Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s life from his early childhood up through his high school years as a member of an immigrant Mexican family in the United States.\u00a0 The Circuit<\/span>, Breaking Through<\/span>, and Reaching Out<\/span> discuss the hardships and rewards of growing up impoverished, unlawfully immigrating, being deported, enduring harsh work conditions at a young age, and succeeding in school against the odds of learning English and racism. <\/ins><\/del><\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francisco Jim\u00e9nez’s Homepage<\/a>: a comprehensive source for Jim\u00e9nez’s awards, curriculum vitae, interviews, and more.<\/p>\n

Undocumented Immigrants at SCU<\/a>: this news article shows how SCU’s Jesuit philosophy is currently helping students get an SCU education.\u00a0 These students would otherwise be unable to afford tuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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