Making the Grade: Improving Degree Attainment at HBCUs
For more than a century, HBCUs have been in the forefront of educating African Americans (as well as increasingly Latinos) and other disadvantaged students, many of whom are the first members of their families to attend college. Often the students More »
Latino Student Success at Hispanic Serving Institutions: Findings from a Demonstration Project
This brief describes the findings and recommendations from a 12-month project with baccalaureate granting HSIs in California, New York and Texas.
Inventing Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are important institutions for Latinos, yet little research exists on them. This brief serves as a primer on the conditions and history behind their invention, the processes for identification, and the general institutional characteristics of HSIs. It More »
Hearing from Presidents of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Defining Student Success, Measures of Accountability, and What it Means to be an HSI
Institution presidents help to set the vision, tone, and priorities for institutional practices. Direct involvement from campus leaders proved critical to the Latino Student Success (LSS) project series. This brief profiles responses from individual interviews with all of the college More »
Choosing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): A Closer Look at Latino Students’ College Choices
This brief examines Latino students’ college choices. While Latino students may not be aware of the HSI designation, they are in fact converting existing colleges and institutions into HSIs simply as a function of their own decisions-a trend that shows More »
Modeling HSI's: Campus Practices That Work for Latino Students
This Exelencia report focuses on successful practices at 12 top-ranked Hispanic-Serving Institutions working to increase Latino student success. Designed to provide a closer view of effective leadership, institutional practices, and guiding principles supporting Latino student success, this report offers promising More »
Leading in a Changing America: Presidential Perspectives from Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Nontraditional students, including first-generation students, older adults and ethnically diverse students, are the new majority on college campuses. The group of minority students with the largest increase in college enrollment -300 percent from 1980 to 2007 -is Hispanics. College presidents More »
Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Serving Latino Students
The number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) is poised to increase significantly, according to this study from Excelencia in Education. With more schools qualifying for HSI status, the study says colleges and universities must re-examine their policies and practices to better More »
States’ Progress and Challenges in Implementing Common Core State Standards
When linking college-admissions requirements or curriculum to the common standards, states lack solid plans to coordinate with higher education. This report, from the Center of Education Policy, says that seven states plan to align first-year undergraduate core curriculum with the More »
