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Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley. Her research centers on issues of equity and justice in higher education with an emphasis on understanding how Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) embrace and enact an organizational identity for serving minoritized populations. She explores the experiences of ...
- Dr. Gina Ann Garcia | HSI scholar-activist, author, and speaker
Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a leading scholar on Hispanic Serving...
- ¿Qué Pasa HSIs? Podcast with Dr. Gina Ann Garcia
Welcome to ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? a podcast dedicated to...
- Dr. Gina Ann Garcia | HSI scholar-activist, author, and speaker
- Introduction
- Defining Servingness Is Difficult
- Servingness Is Multidimensional
- Indicators of Serving
- Structures For Serving
- Servingness in Practice
- Recommendations For Hsi Leaders
- Conclusion
- References
The American Council on Education’sRace and Ethnicity in Higher Education report provides timely data about the continuing significance of race when it comes to enrollment and completion patterns of racially minoritized groups. Most notably, postsecondary institutions are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse (Espinosa et al. 2019). Latinx ...
Defining servingness at HSIs is difficult because the HSI designation is based solely on an institution reaching a specific enrollment threshold of Latinx students, as defined through the Higher Education Act. The policy mostly defines HSIs by student descriptors (Latinx and low income) and provides little federal guidance for not just enrolling bu...
Although defining servingness is hard, it is necessary, as HSIs are becoming increasingly significant in not only providing access to Latinxs, but graduating them (Espinosa, Turk, and Taylor 2017) and supporting their upward mobility (Espinosa, Kelchen, and Taylor 2018). Based on a systematic review of HSI research, the Multidimensional Conceptual ...
Indicators of serving are things HSI leaders can measure to assess servingness. They include academic outcomes, such as persistence, graduation, transfer, course completion, STEM degree completion (a priority for the federal government), and labor market outcomes. Indicators of serving also include nonacademic outcomes, such as the development of a...
Structures for serving are organizational in nature, and often require transformation in order to better serve Latinx students. Such structures include mission and purpose statements; HSI grant activities; decision- making processes; equity-minded leadership practices; policies; curricular and co-curricular structures; institutional advancement act...
Moving from servingness as a theory to actual practice requires learning with and from HSIs that are currently implementing these practices. Excelencia in Education hosts an online resource called the Growing What Works database that HSI leaders can utilize as a resource as they move to servingness.The database has numerous examples of programs and...
The following are recommendations for HSI leaders that recognize the difficulty of defining and enacting servingness, in practice, yet draw on the most contemporary theories and research. 1. Approach HSI grant opportunities as a vehicle to enable institutional leadership, faculty, and staff to proactively think about what servingness looks like in ...
Given the ongoing significance of race and ethnicity in college-going and the growing population of Latinx students, MSIs will remain a critical national resource for providing access to racially minoritized groups. Enrollment, however, is simply not enough when it comes to servingness. Colleges and universities that are eligible and federally desi...
Andrade, Luis M., and Carol A. Lundberg. 2018. “The Function to Serve: A Social-Justice-Oriented Investigation of Community College Mission Statements.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 17, no. 1 (January): 61–75. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1538192716653503. Bensimon, Estela Mara. 2012. “The Equity Scorecard: Theory of Change.” In Confronting Eq...
Gina Garcia. Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a professor at Berkeley School of Education exploring issues of equity and justice in higher education. As an organizational theorist, she seeks to understand how Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) enact an organizational identity for serving Latine/x students and minoritized populations. She draws on ...
Dr. Garcia graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, the University of Maryland, College Park with a master’s degree in college student personnel, and the University of California, Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in higher education and organizational change.
Apr 13, 2015 · Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a professor in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers on issues of equity and justice in higher education with an ...
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