The charge of this University of Oregon taskforce is to assess the possibility of the university becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). This includes documenting enrollment trends, challenges to becoming an HSI, as well as assets the UO can leverage in terms of reaching this goal.
The members of this committee are:
- Laura Pulido, Chair, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES)
- Gabriela Perez Baez, Linguistics
- Rosa Chavez-Jacuinde, Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE)
- Jesse Nelson, Undergraduate Education & Student Success
- Lucas Silva, Environmental Studies and Biology
- Lynn Stephen, Anthropology
Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is a federal designation given to universities and colleges with 25% or more Hispanic enrollment. The HSI Program is authorized under Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. The purpose of the program is to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of, Latinx students, and to expand and enhance the academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability of the colleges and universities that educate the majority of Latinx students and help large numbers of Latinx students complete postsecondary degrees.
The taskforce has currently created two subcommittees to advance this work. One committee is focused on collecting institutional data to help understand where university enrollment currently stands, while the second subcommittee is working to develop a complete picture of the larger landscape of Latinx resources at the UO. (For a real-time look at Latinx enrollment numbers, click to view the Office of the Provost’s Analytic Data Dashboard.)