Program Topics Overview

Grant Development and Management

• Share best practices for effective implementation, management, evaluation, and institutionalization of HSI grant activities

• Provide examples of effective strategies to develop a case for institutionalization and or examples of scaling up grant activities

• Provide HSI staff and faculty with the do’s and don’ts to compete successfully for a range of funding sources, including Title III Part F, Title V, USDA, NSF and others

Servingness - Academic:

• Sessions that offer a culturally responsive approach to education by “serving” students through programs that improve academic outcomes among Latinx/a/e/o and their intersecting identities. Academic outcomes may include but are not limited to:

  • GPA; DFW rates; course completion

  • Outreach; recruitment; and enrollment

  • Persistence; retention; graduation, and/or transfer rates

  • STEM degree completion

  • Employment post-graduation; successful enrollment in graduate or professional school

Servingness - Liberatory:

Sessions that offer a social justice approach to education by “serving” students in culturally responsive ways that humanize and empower Latinx/a/e/o and their intersecting identities. Empowering and liberatory outcomes may include but are not limited to:

• Mental wellness

• Sense of belonging

• Anti-racist orientation; social justice orientation; critical consciousness building

• Political participation; civic engagement; social activism

• Positive academic self-concept

• Racial-ethnic identity

STEMM

• Highlight innovative programming that creates a sense of belonging and culturally validating space for Latinx/a/e/o students to develop a science identity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) disciplines

• Innovate culturally affirming changes to curriculum, examples of culturally responsive pedagogy, programming that increases recruitment or retention of Latinx/a/e/o students and their intersecting identities in STEMM

Professional Development:

• Focus on innovative practices or programming that guide faculty and staff at HSIs through a reflective process that enhances their cultural humility, skills, and awareness of the multicultural strengths of the Latinx/e/o/a community

• Tool (kit) development/implementation, methods for inter- and intra-campus data collection and evaluation, project management, culture shift, meeting facilitation and consensus building, leadership development, equity training, and/or skills to facilitate difficult conversations

• Provide evidence of institutionalization and/or campus-wide sustainability

For Students, by Students:

• 40-minute presentations and 60-minute workshops created by undergraduate and or graduate students that:

• present best practices for engaging undergraduate and or graduate students as active participants and co-creators of HSI efforts

• center student experiences, knowledge and contributions to HSI efforts

• describe the successes and challenges faced in centering Latinx student voices in the implementation of HSI efforts

• model best practices for centering students’ knowledge and contributions in campus decision making and development of the campus HSI identity

• position students as knowledge holders and experts in the development of HSI efforts including curriculum, pedagogy, tutoring, mentoring, basic needs, and student success efforts

• supporting graduate and/or undergraduate students through the writing and publishing process, undergraduate research and graduate school exploration, internships and career development, and action oriented praxis for pre-professional are welcomed