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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Hispanic-serving institution (HSI)"”.
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Becoming a Recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): Institutional Culture & Title V
… of this study was to understand the influence of institutional culture at an HSI on the Title V program. The findings highlight the forces that influence the process of securing, evaluating, and sustaining Title V grants. Drawing upon Kuh and Whitt (1988) and Tierney (1988; 2008), a single-site …
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CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY AND FIRST-GENERATION LATINX STUDENT SENSE OF BELONGING
… Latinx student sense of belonging at an emerging Hispanic serving institution (HSI). This study adds to current literature around culturally relevant pedagogy, which focused on the close, meaningful relationships between faculty and students in the classroom (Ladson-Billings, Gay, Wlodkowski, & …
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Assembling a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Campus Landscape Analysis of a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… seen as neutral sites; however, higher education institutions are sites of ideological production and therefore, fundamental exercises of power (Ford, 2017). The study of campus landscapes is relevant to uncovering and illuminating larger social issues of (in)equality in higher education. …
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Transfer Student Experiences at a Four-Year University
… internship activities at a four-year public Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Inland Empire. Relationships were found between transfer students who participated in service learning and/or internship activities and those transfer students who did not participate in those activities on …
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Juntos Luchamos: A Postcritical Ethnographic and Photovoice Study on Latinx Student Civic Engagement Practices at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
<p>Situated at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), this postcritical ethnographic and photovoice study sought to explore how Latinx students define and practice civic engagement. Theoretically framed by Latino Cultural Citizenship (LCC), the study explored how current Latinx student civic …
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This is How We Did It: A Study of Black Male Resilience and Attainment at a Hispanic Serving Institution Through the Lenses of Critical Race Theory
… identities of race, class, and gender at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The theoretical framework guiding this study draws upon two distinctive collections of scholarship: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and academic resilience.</p> <p>Findings revealed Black male risk to postsecondary …
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Belonging in College: Engagement and Retention at a Hispanic Serving Institution
… first-year students who attended a large, public Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The study examined the extent that belonging influenced involvement and engagement, and the relationship to retention. This was in the context of COVID with the pandemic, social and political unrest, and an …
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Reading, Writing, and Belonging: A Qualitative Study Exploring Academic Self-Efficacy Among First-Year, First-Generation Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… first-generation college students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) perceive their academic self-efficacy for reading and writing. The study focuses on students who were concurrently enrolled in a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and a developmental literacy course. Grounded in …
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A mixed-methods investigation of the college-going experiences of first-generation college students
… "How did first-generation students attending an Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) experience the phenomenon of college-going culture in their high schools and communities?" The study also answered four secondary research questions: (a) "What similarities and differences exist among students …
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Exploring the Impact of the MassTransfer Program: A Look at Latina/ Latino Student Transfer Success at a Two Year Hispanic-Serving Institution into a Four Year Non-Hispanic University in Massachusetts
… transfer success of Latina/Latino students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) community college into a 4-year state university in Massachusetts. Twelve students were individually interviewed for this study. Six of the students attend an HSI community college. The remaining six students were …
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Hear Their Voices: Black Male Student Perceptions of Retention Initiatives At an HSI in the Midwest
… students and six staff at Northsun University, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Midwest to determine the importance of an alignment between Black male students’ methods of persisting and Black male retention initiatives.</p> <p>Findings suggest that Black male students persist in …
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How Latinas’ views of campus climate and gender role expectations contribute to their persistence at a two-year Hispanic serving institution
… to Latinas’ persistence at a two-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Midwest. Guided by the work of Hurtado and Carter (1997) and social support theory (Sarason & Sarason, 1985), various aspects of the college experience both inside and outside the classroom were examined. …
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An examination of perceived undergraduate student social support at a two-year institution in the United States southwest : a quantitative study.
There is a steady decline in Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) graduation rates, especially from two-year institutions. These institutions have been an integral part of U.S. higher education system, and access for underrepresented groups has been a top priority in recent decades with the passing …
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Towards a Servingness Advising Approach: From the Advisors’ Perspective at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… the multidimensional conceptual framework of servingness in HSIs (Garcia et al., 2019) as a lens, I conducted a collaborative action research study that examined an academic advising model that was recently launched at a large, public, four-year Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). …
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Demystifying the Lens of Color: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Racial Identity
… who were enrolled full time at an academic institution of higher education that was both a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) and a predominately White institution (PWI). The two main research questions addressed by this study were: 1. To what extent does the racial identity of African …
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California Community College Presidents’ Leadership: Serving Latinx Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions
… Presidents (CCCPs) make meaning of leading a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) to evaluate how CCCPs respond to Latinx student success gaps and support initiatives at their campuses. Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have been more visible within community college literature, but what …
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Perceptions and experiences of LatinXs in nontraditional Hispanic-serving institutions (NTHSIs)
… the U.S. Census, since the year 2000, the total Hispanic or Latina/o population has increased almost 6%, which represents an increase of almost 25 million people over a period of 18 years. As more Latinos are accessing postsecondary education, more institutions will face an increasingly …