Jose Casimiro Ortal
President
Education
- M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A., History, California State University, Long Beach
Experience
- Director for Affirmative Action/Diversity/EO/Recruitment and Employment, Lane Community College, Eugene,
Oregon
- Contract Compliance Officer, Cordoba Corporation, Los Angeles
- Labor Compliance Officer, City of Santa Monica, California
- Management Analyst, (Department of Transportation), City of Los Angeles
- Management Assistant, (Department of Public Works), City of Los Angeles
Additional Areas of Interest/Publications
- Collective Leadership Facilitator
- “Fallacious Assumptions or Viable Coalitions?: Latinos and Political Alliances with Other Minority Groups”, de
Ortego y Gasca, Felipe, et al. (eds), Encyclopedia of Latino Issues Today, (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood
Press/ABC-CLIO, 2012)
- Contributor, Tafolla, Carmen and Martha Cotera (eds), Great Lives from History: Latinos, (Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, Inc., 2012)
- “Mediagraphy”, Bankston, Carl L. (ed), Great Lives from History: African Americans, (Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, Inc., 2011)
- Co-Presenter, "Measuring Hate Crimes and Diversity: Working Towards a Diversity Index", with Martin Montoya,
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, 2007
- "Are Diversity Initiatives Measurable? A Review of the Literature", Sixth International Conference on Diversity in
Organisations, Communities and Nations, 2006
- "From the LaSells Stewart Center to the Center for Meeting and Learning: Is the Oregon Diversity Institute a
Replicable Social Justice Vehicle?", Community College Moment, V. 5, 2005
- Keynote, Successful Organizing for Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan: Keeping it Simple, Oregon
Diversity Institute, 2003
- Co-Presenter, "Academy and Community: A New Model for Social Justice Collaboration", National Conference on
Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, 2003
- "Cuban Chess, Propaganda and Bohemia", with Edward J. Tassinari, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture,
V. 1, 1982
- "Cuba Views the United States, 1959-1980: A Selected Bibliography", Los Ensayistas, No. 12-13, 1982
- "The Jurisdictional Purview of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs", Oregon Community Colleges
Human Resources Panel
- "Obtaining Developmental Opportunities for Employees of Color: Implications for Genuine Inclusiveness in the
Workplace", Oregon Minority Summit
- Trainer, Seattle Community College District, A Survey of Community College Faculty and Staff of Color
Recruitment, Selection and Retention Best Practices
- "Community Panel Discussion", Oregon Research Institute
- Adjunct Faculty, HST 250, HST 251 and HST 252 sequence, Puentes al Futuro Learning Community
Professional Affiliations and Community Involvement Activities
- Commissioner, Lane County Commission for the Advancement of Human Rights, 2008-2009
- Past Member and Board Chair, Oregon Diversity Institute
- Past Member and Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Centro LatinoAmericano
- Past Member and Chair, Board of Directors, Chicano/Latino Coalition
- Member, Interagency Diversity and Equity Coalition and of its Employment and Recruitment Leadership Group
- Member, Community College Moment, Editorial Board
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