Chicanx and Latine Educandose (ChALE)
ChALE is a student-initiated, student-run peer retention program that serves the Chicanx and Latine community.
ChALE is a needs-based retention program that is designed to respond to the students' social, academic, and cultural needs with the goal of keeping them retained on campus working towards their path to graduation.
ChALE aims to support the Chicanx/Latine student community at UCSC by providing a wide range of resources through events that help students develop skills or obtain information that will assist them to overcome some of the obstacles that our community encounters as we attempt to achieve higher education. It defines retention as the statistical evidence of the persistent attendance of students from the time they come into UCSC till the day they graduate. This program uniquely identifies retention by including academic, social, mental, and cultural aspects that affect retention on this campus.
We provide peer academic, social, and cultural resources as a support for the Chicanx and Latine community at UCSC. The purpose is to retain and encourage pathways toward graduation.
Those that do not identify as Chicanx or Latine are still welcome to join our intimate space and dialogues.
ChALE Lead Retention Coordinator
Stephanie Sanchez Toscano
Third year, Legal Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies (she/her)
As ChALE's Coordinator, I am dedicated to ensuring that our Chicanx/Latine community receives the support needed to ensure we graduate. We must take space in a place that was historically not meant for us, and continue to stay enrolled in higher education by supporting one another, being a resource, and have a space where you can have community. In my free time, I enjoy going to coffee shops and cooking.