How a College of Education Makes the Hispanic-Serving Designation Meaningful

ABSTRACT

The designation of Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) is based on a percentage of Latinx students enrolled, rather than how policies, programs, or curriculum impact these students’ education. We describe how one Hispanic-Serving College of Education sought to make the designation meaningful through a collaborative research initiative in which common threads of care, community, inquiry, and agency emerged, as a means to build a contextualized identity as an HSI.

KEYWORDS:

• Hispanic-Serving Institution
• HSI
• Latinx
• higher education
• Hispanics
• teacher preparation

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