El Centro C.A.S.A. en la Universidad Estatal Adams

Smachos, a combination of s'mores and nachos, bake in the outdoor horno oven near CASA house on the Adams State campus.

C.A.S.A. Center Mission:

As Colorado’s premier Hispanic-Serving Institution, our mission is to enrich and honor ASU’s Latino community, identity, and heritage in order to foster an environment that promotes learning, celebration of cultures, leadership development and student success with a global perspective.

C.A.S.A. Center Vision:

A house that feels like home.

Adams State C.A.S.A. Center students smile while standing around American labor leader and civil rights activistDolores Huerta.
C.A.S.A. Center students with American labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta at a march in Albuquerque.

C.A.S.A. Center Motto:

A place where strangers become friends and friends become family.

“If you have no roots, how can you withstand the tests of the environment that surely come? For me as an individual with a set of cultural and linguistic roots, if my roots were to die and I was to be stripped of the integrity that lies in those roots, then I would also disappear along with all that is important to me.” –Eugene Garcia

"Dia de los Muertos." A person stands in calavera (skull) skull make, hat and dark clothes, in front of a traditional ofrenda.
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“El que habla dos idiomas vale por dos.”

He who speaks two languages is worth two people.