¿Qué Pasa, HSIs? Blog

The California Community College (CCC) system is positioned at the nexus of higher education, servingness, and workforce development. The CCC system is not only the largest higher education system in the U.S., serving over 2 million students, it is also one of the most diverse. With 92% of CCCs eligible for the federal Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation, 40% eligible for Asian American, Native American, Pacific-Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) designation,

Jarvis R. Givens theorizes that fugitive pedagogy includes the subversive educational acts that Black educators performed while enslaved and through Jim Crow to ensure Black children were learning despite anti-Black exclusion and confinement. Givens notes that Black education was always a fugitive project as enslaved people were forbidden to read and write across southern states. Under strict antiliteracy laws, reading and writing was literally criminalized, thus making the

For the last 30 years Congress has supported enrollment-based Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). These institutions, which not only enroll a significant number of students of color and low-income students but also promote their academic success and upward mobility , have benefitted from steady appropriations by way of competitive grants. But HSIs have found themselves under attack as the current administration pushes for race

On September 10, 2025, our MSI community’s biggest fear came true as the Department of Education announced it would end $350 million in discretionary funding to enrollment-based Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Enrollment-based MSIs are institutions that do not have a distinct mission to serve their stated population but have reached an arbitrary enrollment threshold making them eligible for federal funding. Enrollment-based MSIs include: Hispanic-Serving Institutions

In June 2025, the State of Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions filed a lawsuit asserting that Hispanic-Serving Institutions...

Servingness is a complex, multidimensional way to think about intentionally serving Latine students in Hispanic-Serving Institutions...