His four-book series-The Circuit, Breaking Through, Reaching Out, Taking Hold-has been included in the American Library Association Booklist's 50 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Breaking Through ( Senderos Fronterizos, Spanish edition) is about his time in high school, Reaching Out ( Más Allá de Mí, Spanish edition) is about his time attending Santa Clara University, and Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University ( Pasos firmes: Desde niñez migrante a la Universidad de Columbia, Spanish edition) documents his years in graduate school. There are three sequels to this book, which continue documenting his life through its next few stages. This book documents his early life, from crossing the border as a child to attending elementary school and working in the fields. In 1997, Jiménez published his first autobiographical short novel, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child ( Cajas de Carton, Spanish edition). CAJAS DE CARTON SUMMARY PROFESSIONALHe has served on various professional boards and commissions, including the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (10 years, two as chair), California Council for the Humanities (5 years, one as vice chair), Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities (WASC, 6 years), Santa Clara University Board of Trustees (6 years), the Far West Lab for Educational Research and Development (5 years), ALearn, and the Leadership Board of the College of Arts and Sciences at SCU. He is the Co-founder of The Bilingual Review, a scholarly journal dedicated to the study of the linguistics and literature of English Spanish bilingualism in the United States. Jiménez has held several administrative positions at Santa Clara University, including, Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (1981-1990) Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (1990-1994) Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (1997-2000) Director, Ethnic Studies (2001-2005) He has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the Dia del Maestro Teacher of the Year Award from Santa Clara County, the David Logathetti Award for Teaching in Excellence from Santa Clara University, and the US Professor of the Year from CASE and the Carnegie Foundation. He later accepted a position teaching in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Santa Clara University, where he worked full-time until 2015. Jiménez started his career as a professor teaching at Columbia University. CAJAS DE CARTON SUMMARY FULLTomás Jiménez is (in 2019) full professor in sociology at Stanford University. They have three children: Francisco Andrés, Miguel Antonio, and Tomás. Īt Santa Clara University, Jiménez met his to-be wife, Laura Facchini, and they got married while he was attending Columbia University. Then, he went to Columbia University to get his Master's and Ph.D. He became a US Citizen during his junior year at Santa Clara. Īfter high school, Jiménez went on to attend Santa Clara University, getting his B.A. Throughout high school, Jiménez and his older brother, Roberto, worked as janitors to support their family. His father could not work anymore because of severe back problems, so they would no longer move from place to place. A few months later, they returned legally and settled down in a migrant labor camp in Santa Maria, California called Bonetti Ranch. When Jiménez was in eighth grade, his family was deported back to Mexico. Growing up, his family would move with the seasons of crops, causing him to miss months of school every year. When he was six years old, he already started working in the fields with his family. His family then immigrated illegally to California to work as migrant farm workers. Up until he was four years old, he lived in a town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico called El Rancho Blanco. Francisco Jiménez was born in 1943 in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, as the second oldest of eight children.
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