Gumecindo Salas papers, circa 1971-1992.

Gumecindo Salas, a native of the Detroit, Michigan area, was a scholar in education and public servant in various bodies dealing with education. He served in the United States Information Agency, taught for the Detroit Public Schools and Wayne State University, where he helped establish and served as director of Wayne State's Chicano Boricua Studies program and as the director of Minority Programs at Michigan State University. At MSU, Dr. Salas was also a professor of Urban Studies and Integrative Studies in the College of Social Science. Upon retirement from MSU in 2000 he became the Vice President of Governmental Relations for the Hispanic Association for College and Universities as well as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northern Virginia Community College. Dr. Salas served as an elected member of the Michigan State Board of Education for two terms and served on the Saginaw Valley State University Board of Trustees and on the Governor's Commission for the Improvement of Higher Education in Michigan. His publications include themes on Latino political behavior, race and diversity, charter schools and minority populations nationally and the Latino community in Michigan and Detroit. Dr. Salas has served as a consultant on multicultural education, migrant education, and parental involvement in education for the state departments of Colorado, Texas, Montana, Wisconsin and Michigan. His research expertise is in the areas of multiculturalism and diversity in education and the workplace. The collection consists of three boxes of reports, unpublished papers and news clippings related to Latinos in education including bilingual education and higher education; copies of Senate Resolutions proclaiming Chicano History Week (1981) and a gubernatorial declaration of Hispanic Heritage Week (1985) and a "Sister City Agreement between the..Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico and …Lansing, Michigan, 1990."