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Resources for faculty and staff

• Hispanic Serving Research Institutions

  • Matute, A. C. 2022. “Chicanx/Latinx Student Success at UC Riverside: Capturing the History of a Thriving Hispanic Serving Institution”. UC Hispanic Serving Institutions Initiative. Oakland, CA. 

  • Marin, P. (2019). Is “business as usual” enough to be Hispanic-serving? Becoming a Hispanic- serving research institution. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 18(2), 165-181.

  • Paredes, A.D., Estrada, C., Venturanza, R.J., and Teranishi, R.T. 2021. "La Lucha Sigue: The University of California's Role as a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution System." The Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education. Los Angeles, CA. 

  • Latin* Student Success After the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Validating Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Students Through University “Entradas” at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)

  • Elsa Gonzalez, Guillermo Ortega, Mauricio Molina & Gilberto Lizalde (2020) What does it mean to be a Hispanic-Serving Institution? Listening to the Latina/o/x voices of students, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 33:8, 796-809, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2020.1751896 

  • Hurtado, S., Clayton-Pedersen, A. R., Allen, W. R., & Milem, J. F. (1998). Enhancing campus climates for racial/ethnic diversity: Educational policy and practice. The Review of Higher Education, 21(3), 279-302.

  • Hurtado, S., & Ponjuan, L. (2005). Latino educational outcomes and the campus climate. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 4(3), 235-251.

  • Garcia, G. A., Núñez, A. M., & Sansone, V. A. (2019). Toward a multidimensional conceptual framework for understanding “servingness” in Hispanic-serving institutions: A synthesis of the research. Review of Educational Research, 89(5), 745-784.

  • Garcia, G. A., & Okhidoi, O. (2015). Culturally relevant practices that “serve” students at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Innovative Higher Education, 40, 345-357.

  • Garcia, G. A. (Ed.). (2020). Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs) in practice: Defining" servingness" at HSIs. IAP.

  • Yosso, T., Smith, W., Ceja, M., & Solórzano, D. (2009). Critical race theory, racial microaggressions, and campus racial climate for Latina/o undergraduates. Harvard Educational Review, 79(4), 659-691.Cristobal, Nik and Garcia, Gina A. (2022) "Race-neutrality and Race-consciousness in Students’ Sensemaking of “Servingness” at Two Hispanic Serving Institutions," Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2 , Article 4.

  • Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race ethnicity and education, 8(1), 69-91.

  • Garcia, G. A. (2018). Decolonizing Hispanic-serving institutions: A framework for organizing. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 17(2), 132-147.

  • Garcia, G. A. (2023). Transforming Hispanic-serving institutions for equity and justice. JHU Press.