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For HSIs, “Servingness” is a Journey, Not an Endpoint

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. HSIs graduate slightly more than 40% of their students, well short of the national average.

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Dismantling the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We allow “elite” institutions to define excellence; we support the “screening out” of students in the name of academic rigor; and we presume there is but one way to legitimately make it through college — on a fixed timeline and with a particular experience.

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Poll Highlights Top Concerns of Enrollment Leaders

EAB

MR: Her observation is that some of the students that she's serving, these are very able students. Well able to go to college, are just like, "Whoa." MR: And for parents, let's be honest, their version of their students successfully launching is they don't move home and live in the basement after graduation.