Exploring "Servingness" at Hispanic Serving Institutions

This Using Our Voices to Transform HSIs Collaborative explores perceptions of “servingness” at Hispanic Serving Institutions, and aims to interrogate how university policies, programs and practices support Latinx/e student success.

The Collaborative hosts multiple research projects, including:

Finding Comunidad: Exploring Servingness at a Hispanic Serving Institution
California State University HSI Action Research Network

PROJECTS

FINDING COMUNIDAD

This project explores Latinx student perceptions of “servingness” at Sacramento State, a Hispanic Serving Institution, and aims to interrogate how university policies, programs and practices support Latinx student success.

The project is driven by the following research questions:

How do Latinx/ewe, as students. perceive Sacramento State, our Hispanic Serving Institution, as serving us?
How we, as Latinx/e students, define student success?
How can institutional elements and the campus environment better serve Latinx/e students?

The Finding Comunidad: Exploring Servingness at a Hispanic Serving Institution is supported by the College Futures Foundation and Sacramento State's Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning.

California State University HSI Action Research Network

The CSU Hispanic Serving Institution Action Research Network brings together faculty, staff and student stakeholders from eight CSU campuses designated as HSIs. Together, the network aims to facilitate conversations on how the CSU system can go beyond enrolling high numbers of Latine students to serving these students.