¿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