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18th Annual AHSIE Best Practices Conference
Leading Con Corazón: Reimagining the Power of Servingness
Submissions Due: Friday, October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST
The 2026 18th Annual AHSIE Best Practices Conference is scheduled for March 8 - 11, 2026 in Boston, MA. This year’s conference theme, Leading Con Corazón: Reimagining the Power of Servingness, calls us to lead with heart, boldness, and conviction. It invites us to reimagine the power of servingness, not as a checklist or compliance measure, but as a transformative ethos rooted in love, legacy, and liberation.
Servingness is the intentional and holistic commitment to not only enroll Latinx/a/o/e students, but to serve them through culturally affirming, equity-driven, liberatory and community-rooted practices. This theme challenges us to lead from our lived experiences, ancestral wisdom, and collective strength to build institutions that honor the genius and strengths of our students and the resilience of our communities.
In Boston, a city rich with history and activism, we gather to:
Lead with corazón: centering comunidad, compassion, responsibility to serve and relational leadership.
Reimagine servingness: moving beyond access to transformation and beyond metrics to meaning.
Elevate innovation and equity: through storytelling, scholarship, and shared praxis.
Build bridges across generations and geographies: to sustain the movement for educational justice.
This theme is a call to action for educators, leaders, and practitioners to lead boldly, love deeply, and serve intentionally.
Preference will be given to submissions aligning with this year's theme and conference message - Leading Con Corazón: Reimagining the Power of Servingness. AHSIE invites proposals that:
present innovative and transformative initiatives that accelerate equity in higher education through a social justice lens
demonstrate institutional efforts that resulted in scaling up and/or institutionalization and continued support for HSI grant activities by campus leadership
exemplify culturally responsive pedagogy, curriculum, policies, and practices that acknowledge the intersectional identities of a heterogeneous Latinx population
demonstrate use of equity-data analysis to evaluate the successes and challenges faced on their institutional path to taking an asset-based perspective on Latine/x/@ student success
Call for Proposals Systems
Main Call for Proposals System
The Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE) invites proposals for the 18th Annual AHSIE Best Practices Conference. The AHSIE Conference will take place March 8 - 11, 2026 in Boston, MA at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. All conference proceedings will be held in-person.
Student Call for Proposals System
As in previous years, we are offering the opportunity for undergraduate/graduate students to present alongside conference speakers. We invite students to submit interactive and engaging proposals under the track, “For Students, By Students”.
Call for Affinity Groups
Affinity Group Sessions at AHSIE are designed to provide space for attendees to build meaningful connections with others who share similar identities, interests, backgrounds, or lived experiences.
This year, we are excited to open the opportunity for attendees to propose and host their own Affinity Group Sessions. These informal, participant-driven gatherings are intended to foster dialogue, networking, and a strong sense of belonging within our community. For more information click the link below. Complete the form below to submit your Affinity Group details for the chance to be featured at the 2026 Conference.
Thank you, and we look forward to your submissions!
For more information, please email us at ahsie@designingevents.com or call 240-915-8930.