HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS (HSI)

CUMU members serve diverse groups of students, close equity gaps, and are champions for social and economic mobility for all students. Several CUMU members are designated either Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) or emerging HSIs. According to U.S. federal law, HSIs are higher education institutions with 25% or higher total undergraduate Hispanic or Latino full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment. Institutions are considered emerging HSIs with 15–24.9% Hispanic or Latino FTE.

Resources from CUMU programming

Latine Student Communities Huddle

Cynthia Carmina Gómez, Portland State University

Latine student enrollment in colleges and universities is increasing, prompting institutions to explore new ways to support this growing community. The Latine Student Communities Huddle is designed for higher education professionals who want to learn what drives Latine student success.

The success of Hispanic Serving Institutions in achieving social and economic mobility

Guy Baily, president, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Magdalena Hinojosa,University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Juan Munoz, University of California Merced

How are CUMU campuses enacting the role of Hispanic Serving Institution?

Amber Gonzalez, California State University, Sacramento

Is your campus an HSI or strives to be one? This informal discussion conceptualizes how campuses enact this work and includes a discussion of innovative initiatives, centralized campus roles that focus on HSI work, achieving official designations such as the Seal of Excelencia, among others.

Resources published in Metropolitan Universities journal

Oklahoma City’s emerging Hispanic community: New partnerships, new successes

Mark A. Kinders, Myron L. Pope

Underrepresentation of Hispanic faculty at Hispanic serving metropolitan research universities

Douglas Robertson

An institutional approach to course redesign at a Hispanic Serving Institution

Rudolph J. Sanchez

Understanding success of historically underrepresented students at California State University, Monterey Bay through a look at their institutional experiences

Mary Boyce

Extended education’s role: Facilitating higher education to historically underrepresented groups

Scott D. Moore

Building institutional infrastructure through the Center for Urban Partnership

Sr. Judy Molosky

HSI designated CUMU member campuses (2023–2024)

Arizona State University

California State University, Dominguez Hills

California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Northridge

California State University, San Bernardino

Dallas College

DePaul University

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Florida International University

Indiana University Northwest

Kean University

Montclair State University

Purdue University Northwest

Rutgers University–Newark

San Diego State University

University of Central Florida

University of Colorado–Denver

University of Houston

University of Houston-Downtown

University of Illinois Chicago

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of North Texas at Dallas

University of San Diego

The University of Texas at El Paso

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Emerging-HSI designated CUMU member campuses (2023–2024)

Barnard College

Baylor University

Central Connecticut State University

Community College of Philadelphia

Indiana University South Bend

Johns Hopkins University

Loyola University Chicago

Medgar Evers College

Metropolitan Community College, Nebraska

New York University

Pace University

Portland State University

Rollins College

Rutgers University – Camden

Stanford University

Stockton University

Swarthmore College

The University of Chicago

University of Connecticut, Hartford

University of Massachusetts Lowell

University of Missouri-Kansas City

University of Nebraska at Omaha

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

University of North Texas at Dallas

Wagner College