Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Committee
HSIs play an important role in not only expanding educational access for Latine and other communities historically denied equal access to higher education, but also ensuring that once enrolled, our students have the support, resources and opportunities needed to succeed with the care they deserve.
By embracing our status as an emerging federally designated HSI, we reaffirm our commitment to upholding our Lasallian mission of advancing educational equity, holistic student development, and meaningful community engagement.
Las HSIs desempe帽an un papel crucial no solo en la expansi贸n del acceso a la educaci贸n para las comunidades latinas y otras comunidades hist贸ricamente privadas de igual acceso a la educaci贸n universitaria, sino tambi茅n en asegurar que, una vez matriculados, nuestros estudiantes reciban el apoyo, los recursos y las oportunidades necesarios para tener 茅xito con el cuidado que merecen.
Al adoptar nuestro estatus como una HSI federalmente designada en crecimiento, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con la misi贸n Lasalliana de promover la equidad educativa, el desarrollo integral de los estudiantes y el compromiso significativo con la comunidad.
HSI Servingness
Defining “Servingness” at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Practical Implications for HSI Leaders by Gina Ann Garcia. Reduced content, click to read and download the full essay
The federal government defines HSIs as nonprofit, degree-granting postsecondary institutions that enroll at least 25 percent undergraduate Latine students. By definition, HSIs also enroll a high concentration of low-income students (Santiago, Taylor, and Calder贸n Galdeano 2016). Yet there is no federal requirement for having a commensurate institutional infrastructure in place for serving these students, whose needs are different from traditional college-goers. As more colleges and universities become HSI-eligible, they must grapple with the best approaches for serving they enroll.
Defining servingness at HSIs is difficult because the HSI designation is based solely on an institution reaching a specific enrollment threshold of Latine students, as defined through the Higher Education Act. The policy mostly defines HSIs by student descriptors (Latine and low income) and provides little federal guidance for not just enrolling but serving the needs of these students. As such, HSIs themselves are most often the ones to define servingness in practice.
Definici贸n de “servicio” en las instituciones de servicio a hispanos (HSI): implicaciones pr谩cticas para los l铆deres de HSI Por Gina Ann Garc铆a. Contenido reducido, haga click para leer y descargar el ensayo completo.
El gobierno federal define a las HSI como instituciones postsecundarias sin fines de lucro que otorgan t铆tulos y que inscriben al menos al 25 por ciento de estudiantes universitarios latinos.[2] Por definici贸n, la HSI tambi茅n matricula a una alta concentraci贸n de estudiantes de bajos ingresos (Santiago, Taylor y Calder贸n Galdeano 2016). Sin embargo, no existe ning煤n requisito federal para contar con una infraestructura institucional acorde para atender a estos estudiantes, cuyas necesidades son diferentes a las de los asistentes universitarios tradicionales. A medida que m谩s universidades sean elegibles para HSI, deben lidiar con los mejores enfoques para atender a los estudiantes en la pr谩ctica, lo que en este ensayo se denomina “servir”. El servicio es un concepto que, seg煤n Garc铆a, N煤帽ez y Sansone (2019), es una forma multidimensional y conceptual de entender lo que significa pasar de simplemente inscribir estudiantes a servirlos realmente.
Definir el servicio en la HSI es dif铆cil porque la designaci贸n de HSI se basa 煤nicamente en que una instituci贸n alcance un umbral de inscripci贸n espec铆fico de estudiantes, seg煤n lo define la Ley de Educaci贸n Superior. La pol铆tica define principalmente la HSI seg煤n descriptores de estudiantes (latinos y de bajos ingresos) y proporciona poca orientaci贸n federal no solo para inscribir sino tambi茅n para atender las necesidades de estos estudiantes. Como tal, las propias HSI suelen ser las que definen el servicio en la pr谩ctica.
Membership 2025-2026
- Dr. Carmen Arellano (Mission Integration & Hispanic/Latine Campus Minister)
- Gregory Benson-Florez (Psychology)
- Dawn Browning (Office of Lasallian Belonging)
- Elizabeth Cardenas (Student Services)
- Nora Collins Pienta (Student Life Office)
- Dr. Erica Davila (Education)
- Toni Fitzpatrick (Academic Services)
- Laura Franklin (Office of Academic Affairs)
- Dr. Joanna Maravilla (Education)
- Margaret Martinez (Office of University Ministry, Mission and Identity)
- Juvenal Nava (CIS)
- Dr. Elvira Pichardo (Education)
- Rocio Rodriguez (Foreign Language Program)
- Dr. Shireen Roshanravan (Office of Lasallian Belonging)
- Dr. Daisy Sherry (Nursing)
- Dr. Jennifer Tello Buntin (Sociology)
- Dr. Angela Vidal-Rodriguez (Dean, St. Augustine College)
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