¿Qué pasa, HSIs?

In this episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? we engage in lessons in grassroots leadership with Dra. Leticia Villarreal Sosa, a scholar activist who serves as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor in the School of Social Work at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She shares stories of the risks and challenges that grassroots leaders face while trying to transform their campuses into Latine-serving spaces. As a social worker who centers feminist teachings and racial justice in her work, enacting servingness comes natural to her, yet she has faced numerous struggles and strong opposition along the way. One of her passions is curriculum redesign, which she describes for us, providing techniques for making changes to curriculum, measuring critical consciousness as a goal of the course, and strategies for getting changes through formal governance structures. We also talk about our co-authored article on “decolonizing faculty governance” and the fear, anger, and resistance we invoked from colleagues. With every story, Dra. Villarreal Sosa weaves in the risks she has taken while doing the work. Grassroots leadership is vital to HSI transformation, and many of us can learn from Leticia in this episode. Guest: Dra. Leticia Villarreal Sosa (she/her/hers/ella), Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development | Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley X: @leticiavillarr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticia-villarreal-sosa-58a2b320/ Instagram: @nepantlahealing APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, May 5). Lessons in Grassroots Leadership. (No.408) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/408 Attachments / Show notes: https://doi.org/10.1177/15381927221126781https://doi.org//10.1007/s10615-023-00892-0https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svab011https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1770719https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088162

We are committed to centering student voices on ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? This episode provides the opportunity to learn about the Using Our Voices to Transform HSIs project at California State University, Sacramento (Sac State). The project, funded by the College Futures Foundation, explores Latinx/e student perceptions of servingness at Sac State and aims to interrogate how university policies, programs, and practices support Latinx/e student success. Four members of the Using Our Voices team, Dr. Amber Gonzalez, professor at Sac State, Dr. Kevin Ferreira van Leer, assistant professor at University of Connecticut, Jacky Villalobos, alumni of Sac State, and Samantha Secundido, student at Sac State, talk about the history of the project, their process as co-researchers, and some of the core findings. They also share how their project caught the attention of the administration on campus, which has led to structural and policy changes for students. Participatory action research (PAR) has the power to transform HSIs, but it’s not easy work. This episode spotlights the processes necessary to engage in successful PAR work with students at HSIs. And if there is one thing all HSIs should do, it is listen to their students. Guests: Amber Gonzalez (she/her), Professor, California State University, Sacramento Kevin Ferreira van Leer (he/him/el), Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut Twitter & Instagram: @DrKevinFvL | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin1ferreira/ Website: https://www.drferreiravanleer.com/ https://arclab.hdfs.uconn.edu/projects/elevating-equity/ Jacky Villalobos (she/her), Alumni & Doctorate of Physical Therapy Student, California State University, Sacramento Samantha Secundido (she/her), Student, California State University, Sacramento Instagram: @xo.samy Attachments / Show notes: csus.usingourvoiceshttps://www.usingourvoiceshsi.com/https://www.csus.edu/news/newsroom/stories/2023/9/listening-to-students.html

In this episode we transform the ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? microphone into a brown table talk with one of our favorite HSI leaders Dra. Cynthia Olivo, who is the 10th president of Fullerton College. Dra. Olivo’s career spans nearly three decades, serving in many roles including Assistant Superintendent and Vice President of Student Services at Pasadena City College and Associate Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment at California State University, San Bernardino. In this plática we learn about how she has served as a champion for equity and academic excellence for students, how she has worked towards organizational change, poco a poco, with minor tweaks, and how culture, ceremony, and celebration are core tenets of her leadership. She also shares best practices for coalition building across racial-ethnic groups as informed by an organization she co-founded, The Coalition. Throughout our plática Dra. Olivo shares her personal history as the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, the daughter of a single mother, a first-generation college student, and a third-generation Chicana who went from EOP student to college president. Guest: Cynthia Olivo (She, Her, Ella), Presidenta, Fullerton College Social Media: @drcynthiaolivo APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, April 7). Brown Table Talk with President Olivo. (No.406) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/306 Attachments / Show notes: https://www.fullcoll.edu/president/https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/09/25/higher-educations-racial-inequities-000978/https://edsource.org/2021/to-close-racial-equity-gaps-make-it-simpler-for-community-college-students-to-transfer/657575https://www.thecoalitioncc.org/

This episode is packed with MSI-HSI-AANAPISI knowledge! Whether you are at a dual or multiple designation campus or not, this episode is for you! Our guest Dr. Mike Hoa Nguyen is an assistant professor of education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the principal investigator of the MSI Data Project. He has extensive professional experience that informs his research, having served as a senior staff member in the United States Congress and a program associate at De Anza College, an AANAPISI in California. In this episode we dive deep into the weeds of the MSI federal designation, with Dr. Nguyen educating us on the complexities and possibilities of being dual designated as an HSI & AANAPISI. He also talks about the usefulness of the servingness framework for AANAPISIs (Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions) and offers suggestions for engaging with state and federal legislators and private foundations as a way to advance our HSI-AANAPISI grant work. He also shares the roots of the MSI Data Project and talks about ways to use the data in research and practice. Guest: Mike Hoa Nguyen (he/him), Assistant Professor, New York University APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, March 24). Navigating AANAPISI & HSI Dual Designation (No.405) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/ Attachments / Show Notes: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/mike-hoa-nguyen https://www.msidata.org/

In this episode Dra. Karla Cruze-Silva talks about her research with managerial professionals and support staff at HSIs. Her findings indicate that these practitioners are often the people on the ground implementing servingness at HSIs, yet they are overlooked in the servingness research, not invited to the HSI conversations on campus, and don’t feel like they are part of servingness efforts. They also feel overworked and underpaid, yet the majority are women and Black, Indigenous, People of Color with a great level of commitment to serving minoritized populations. Karla shines an important light on this essential group of staff members at all HSIs, and asks us to consider how we are serving them. Dra. Cruze-Silva, who is a first-generation college graduate, Chicana, daughter and wife to immigrants, mama, scholar-practitioner, serves as the Director of HSI Initiatives at the University of Arizona. In addition to her research, she shares some of the secrets to doing intentional servingness work and the importance of having a permanent HSI Director on campus. We explore important topics like engaging alumni and working with private foundations and corporations to support servingness efforts. Guest: Dra. Karla Cruze-Silva (She/ Her/ Ella), Director, Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives, University of Arizona Social Media: X: @DraCruzeSilva LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-cruze-silva-phd-b110b958/ APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, March 10). Elevating Managerial Professionals & Support Staff in Servingness (No.404) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/ Attachments / Show notes: https://hsi.arizona.edu/

We make our way to the Midwest for this episode, learning with the HSI Network of Wisconsin. HSI-NOW is a coalition of leaders from colleges and universities across the state of Wisconsin with a mission to collectively develop the ideal conditions to serve, educate, and advance Hispanic/Latino* students to create equitable opportunities in higher education. In this plática, I talk to 2 members of the network who share the origin story, purpose, and major milestones that the network has made. A key take-away of this episode is that collaboration and cooperation will take us much further in our own individual campus servingness journeys than competition will. Our guests include Jacki Black, the Director of Hispanic Initiatives and Diversity & Inclusion Educational Programming at Marquette University, and Alberto Maldonado, the Director of the Roberto Hernández Center at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Both Jacki and Alberto have an unwavering commitment to serving Latine/x students in higher education and both value community, family, language, and culture and work hard to ensure that students on their individual campuses are seen, heard, and served. Guests: Jacki Black (She/Her), Director of Hispanic Initiatives and Diversity & Inclusion Educational Programming, Marquette University LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacki-black-036170123/ Alberto Maldonado (He/Him/Él) Director Roberto Hernández Center/Special Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor for DEI & Co-lead for the Chancellors Committee for Hispanic Serving Initiatives, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Instagram:@donpepe1970 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-maldonado-b4b00512/ APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, February 25). HSI NOW: Advancing Servingness in Wisconsin (No.403) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/ Attachments / Show notes: https://stories.marquette.edu/the-hispanic-serving-institution-network-of-wisconsin-hsi-at-marquette-f93e10eec2f7https://www.hacu.net/images/hacu/conf/33ac/MarquetteHACU%20presentation%202019_final.pdfHispanic student enrollment up at Milwaukee-area universities as schools increase efforts | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPRUWM's Roberto Hernández Center provides Latinx students a home away from home (youtube.com)

In this episode we elevate the voice of one alumni of an HSI who calls themselves a critical friend to the institution. Throughout this episode we grapple with the tensions of calling on HSIs to change the structural ways they serve students while acknowledging some of the progress being made. I talk to Carlos Benitez Cruz (they/them) who is a PhD student in Community Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Carlos reflects on their time as a student at Dominican University, highlighting how they advocated for a cultural center on campus by learning from the legacy of struggle highlighted in the PBS documentary, The First Rainbow Coalition. Carlos also reflects on lost opportunities, like the failed retention of a Latina staff member who was highly favored by students of color, and calls to question the role of class struggle in HSIs, which continue to be neoliberal institutions that rely on the production of students who get jobs and the money they bring into the institution. The confessions of a critical friend are also the confessions of a highly engaged, politically active, student artist-activist at an HSI that didn’t adequately serve them. Guest: Carlos Benitez Cruz (they/them), PhD Student in Community Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago Social Media: X: @xismoso_ APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, February 11). Confessions of a Critical Friend to HSIs (No.402) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/ Attachments / Show notes: https://www.genderjustice-uic.org/https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-first-rainbow-coalition/

We kick off another season of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? with our friends from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Dr. Michael Benitez, Jr. serves as the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion and Dr. Del Real serves as the Executive Director of HSI Initiatives and Inclusion. In this episode we talk about the strategies they have used to advance servingness both on campus and across the state of Colorado. They talk about using HSI grants to advance servingness and discuss the importance of having both a V.P. of Diversity and Inclusion and a campus-funded Director of HSIs on campus to drive HSI efforts. We also dream about educational liberation and Latinx-informed innovation and accountability for serving. Throughout this episode we honor the past, the work of elders, and the work of leaders who sometimes put their jobs on the lines for what would become HSIs. Guests: Dr. Michael Benitez, Jr. (He/His/Him/Yo), Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Metropolitan State University of Denver LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-benitez-jr-ph-d-4656333/ Dr. Manuel Del Real (He/Him/Él), Executive Director of HSI Initiatives and Inclusion, Metropolitan State University of Denver LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-d-66532925 Instagram: elpositivo03 | msudenverdiversity APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, January 28). Honoring the Past & Strategizing for the Future. (No.401) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/ Show Notes: https://www.msudenver.edu/diversity/hispanic-serving-institution/ http://www.tobyjenkins.net/the-hip-hop-mindset.html

For the final episode of season 3 I talk to Vanessa Varela, Assistant Professor in Education, and Jason Meyler, Associate Professor of Spanish at Mount Mary University, a small women’s college HSI in Wisconsin. In this episode we dive into HSI NOW efforts in Milwaukee, the evolution of servingness at Mount Mary University, and the importance of acknowledging language and multilingualism in servingness efforts. Our guests highlight Mount Mary’s multilingual strategic plan, which is embedded in their HSI philosophy, and the Culture, Classroom, and Multilingual Learners Workshop, which builds capacity among faculty, adjuncts, and tutors to deliver academic content in diverse linguistic classrooms. This is the first ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? episode to unpack linguistic servingness in HSI, but it won’t be the last as this topic is truly multidimensional as Vanessa and Jason highlight. Listen in and learn about linguistic mobility at HSIs. Guests: Vanessa Varela (she/her/ella), Assistant Professor in Education, Mount Mary University www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-varelam1 https://twolanguageedition.wordpress.com/ Jason Meyler (He, him, él), Associate Professor of Spanish | Chairperson of the World Languages Department | Coordinator of the Leadership for Social Justice Seminar, Mount Mary University linkedin.com/in/jason-meyler-48a86573 APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, November 12). Linguistic Servingness at HSIs. (No.310) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcasthttps://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/c29d5e2b/linguistic-servingness-at-hsis

This multi-guest episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? is full of knowledge sharing. I had the opportunity to talk to 5 members of Cabrillo College’s HSI Task Force, who shared their journey to making an intentional HSI. They talk about the accomplishments of their HSI Task Force, share tips for gaining support on campus for HSI efforts, and talk about the secret sauce to servingness work, which includes grassroots leadership and support from positional leaders including the president and trustees. We also learn about the historic moments along Cabrillo College’s path to becoming an HSI. Ann Endris, Title V HSI Director at Cabrillo College and former associate faculty member is joined by Cabrillo College alum Dr. Blanca Baltazar-Sabbah who shares much of the historical aspects of Cabrillo’s HSI identity. Dr. Alicia Bencomo Garcia, a tenure-track instructor of Ethnic Studies at Cabrillo, and Serina Eichelberger, a social justice focused educational leader and Title III HSI STEM Project Director at Cabrillo share information about Cabrillo’s current efforts to embrace an HSI identity. President Matt Wetstein rounds out the group in this episode, sharing a president’s perspective on the process of becoming an intentional HSI. Guests: Ann Endris (she/her), Title V Director Instagram: @akendris Blanca Baltazar-Sabbah (she/her/ella), Dean, Academic Counseling, Career, and Educational Support Services (ACCESS) X: @DraBaltazar | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-blanca-baltazar-sabbah-5a2374b2 Alicia Bencomo Garcia (she/her), Faculty X: @AliG_phdjourney Serina Eichelberger (she/ella/they), HSI Title III STEM Project Director linkedin.com/in/serina-eichelberger-335b3220 Matthew Wetstein (he, him), President APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, November 5). The making of an intentional HSI: Cabrillo College. (No.309) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/9e499aaf/the-making-of-an-intentional-hsi-cabrillo-college Show Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19fQ43ZqjOyLrYIYk1kub3GGIwYeoNDc-/viewhttps://www.cabrillo.edu/office-of-instruction/hispanic-serving-institution/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62c4ba2609f6370427726636/t/64e3fc4108a23457e70a9415/1692662859454/Report%2B4%2BHSCC-spreads-small+%281%29.pdfhttps://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/community-colleges/2023/08/17/cabrillo-college-delays-choosing-new-name#https://www.cabrillo.edu/title-v/https://www.cabrillo.edu/abriendo-el-camino/https://www.cabrillo.edu/title-iii-hsi-stem/

In this episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? we think outside of the normative constructs of higher education learning with and from Dr. Joe Louis Hernandez who is the Director for the Rising Scholars program at Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC). Dr. Hernandez is a Streetwise Scholar who attended Mt SAC, Cal State LA, and Cal State Long Beach, all of which are HSIs, having profound effects on his educational journey. But more so than the institutions, he talks about mentors and co-defendants who have guided him along the way, many of whom believed he would get a PhD before he did. He talks to us about his own journey from the carceral system to the graduation stage at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on the experiences of formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students in higher education with an anti-deficit perspective on this student population. Joe Louis' passion for serving this population arises from his own experience with incarceration and having gone through the criminal justice system. We discuss the Rising Scholars Program, which fosters a college-completing atmosphere and a holistic approach to student development, and his research, which teaches us how servingness can co-exist with streetwise epistemology. Joe Louis Hernandez (he/him/él), Rising Scholars Director, Mt. San Antonio College | Adjunct Professor, Cal Poly Pomona Department of Educational Leadership Twitter: @STRWISEScholar | Instagram: @STREETWISE_SCHOLAR Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-louis-hernandez-ph-d-2b223318a APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, October 29). Streetwise epistemology and servingness. (No.308) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/a170d1f8/streetwise-epistemology-and-servingness Attachments / Show notes: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211054827

This episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? features Dra. Dez Zuniga, HSI faculty lead for the Abriendo Caminos project at Pasadena City College (PCC), along with four members of PCC’s Student Advisory Equipo. The Equipo is an HSI initiative with significant impact and influence at PCC, led by Latine student leaders who participate in committees and working groups to help build a campus culture for serving Latine students. Our guests share their many successes and challenges along the way, guided by the love of their femtor Dra Dez, who embodies servingness as an HSI advocate on campus and creator of the student advisory group. Each guest shares their path to HSI consciousness and their journeys into and through college, which are not linear. They also talk about working in solidarity to elevate the needs and voices of Latinx/a/o/e, Black/African American, and Asian Pacific Islander Desai American (APIDA) student populations at PCC. Listen to these students, who are fierce advocates for justice! Guests: Dr. Desiree (Dez) Zuniga (she/her/ella), Associate Professor/Faculty Counselor/HSI Faculty Lead, Pasadena City College / HSI Title V Grant: Abriendo Caminos LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zunigadesiree Enith Reyes (she/her/they/ella/elle), Lead Resource Advocate, Former Student Advisory Equipo Leader/Scholar (Cohort 1), Pasadena City College Pride Center/Undoc Dream Center LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enithreyes/ Diego Iniguez (he/him/él), Student Advisory Equipo Leader/Scholar (Cohort 2-5), Pasadena City College / HSI Title V Grant: Abriendo Caminos Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-iniguez Emmanuel Gómez (he/him/él), Student Advisory Equipo Leader/Scholar (Cohort 1-5), Pasadena City College / HSI Title V Grant: Abriendo Caminos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-gomez-48b435233/ Gustavo Sanchez (he/him/él), Student Advisory Equipo Leader/Scholar (Cohort 4-5), Pasadena City College / HSI Title V Grant: Abriendo Caminos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavo-sanchez-lozada-552706252/ APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, October 22). Spaces of Empowerment: HSI Student Equipos. (No.307) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/a03adfcb/spaces-of-empowerment-hsi-student-equipos Attachments / Show Notes: https://www.instagram.com/pcc_equipo/https://pasadena.edu/about/hsi/equipo.php

In this episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? we continue down the path of understanding and conceptualizing STEM servingness with scholars from the Research and Equity Scholarship Institute, affectionately known as RESISTE, at San Diego State University. Dr. Felisha Herrera Villarreal is the director of the institute and widely published scholar who has procured external funding to support STEM servingness and STEM pathways research. Her scholarship employs advanced statistical techniques to examine contextual factors—institutional, geographic, demographic, political, and economic—that impact postsecondary outcomes. She is joined by Dr. Victoria Rodriguez-Operana, postdoctoral research fellow for RESISTE who co-leads efforts on externally funded projects housed at the institute. Her research experience in education, psychology, and human development helps her focus on the experiences and well-being of minoritized students in this work. This episode is full of STEM servingness knowledge creation that centers Hispanic-serving community colleges (HSCCs) and the intentional work that is happening across San Diego HSCCs to ensure successful pathways into STEM majors and STEM careers for students. We also talk about the mentoring (femtoring) and care that goes into doing HSI research at RESISTE. Guests: Dr. Felisha Herrera Villarreal (she/her), Professor & Director of the Research & Equity Scholarship Institute, San Diego State University X: @DrHerreraSDSU LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/felisha-herrera-villarreal (felishaherreravillarreal) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/felisha.herrera Dr. Victoria Rodriguez-Operana (she/her), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research & Equity Scholarship Institute, San Diego State University | & Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Human Developmental Sciences X: @drvictoriarod APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, October 15). Learning with RESISTE: STEM Servingness Research. (No.306) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/9d6b91b4/learning-with-resiste-stem-servingness-research Attachments / Show notes: https://res-iste.sdsu.edu/https://felishaherrera.sdsu.edu/https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221126480https://www.doi.org/10.1177/15381927211069543

We turn the focus to one emerging HSI in this episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? to learn about how one campus has prepared to become an HSI. Our guest, Dra. Sandy López serves as the Director of the Undocumented Student Resource Center at Northern Illinois University (NIU), an emerging HSI in Illinois. Sandy has over 30 years of experience serving students, staff, faculty, and school business officials as an elementary school teacher, academic advisor, teaching consultant, administrator, and most importantly as a mentor and student advocate. Dra. López talks about her work as an unapologetic educator activist who is heavily involved on campus and in the community, working with and for undocumented students, and shares resources that educators can access. She provides a wealth of information about how NIU has intentionally emerged towards HSI. Dra. López’s energy is unmatched in this episode! Guest: Dra. Sandy López (she/her/ella), Director of the Undocumented Student Resource Center, Northern Illinois University Twitter: @NIU_UndocCenter | Instagram: @niu_undoccenter APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, October 8). Advocacy for Undocumented Students at One Emerging HSI. (No.305) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/a3a604f3/advocacy-for-undocumented-students-at-one-emerging-hsi Attachments / Show Notes: Undocumented Student Resource Center | Northern Illinois UniversityScholarships for DACA & TPS Students | TheDream.USIllinois DREAM ActTemporary Visitor Driver's License (TVDL) for Undocumented (Non-Visa Status) IndividualsMonetary Award Program | MAP GrantsWorking from Within | UAPress

In this episode, Aaron Cortes talks about how efforts to create pathways to college for Latine/x students is a part of servingness. Creating pathways is essential to access to higher education, yet institutions must do this work with the student and their families at the center. Aaron serves as the Director of the STEM initiatives (STEAM Pathways) at the Center for College Access and Success of Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU). In this capacity, he directs the TRIO Upward Bound, TRIO Upward Bound Math and Science, and 21st Century Community of Learning Centers. In addition to directing outreach programs, Mr. Cortes is an adjunct professor for the Computer Science department at NEIU. In this episode you will learn about Aaron, his work, and his ideas for working in collaboration across institutions and communities as a part of servingness. Guest: Aaron Cortes Minor (he/him/el), Director, STEAM Pathways, Center for College Access and Success, Northeastern Illinois University Social Media: Twitter: @Aaron_Cortes | Instagram: @aaroncortesminor | LinkedIn: aaroncortesminor APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, October 1). Working with pre-college students and their communities as servingness. (No.304) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/acfc1fc9/working-with-pre-college-students-and-their-communities-as-servingness

Season 3, Episode 3 takes us to the next level of understanding servingness. In this plática, I talk to 5 educators, activists, artists, poetas, and storytellers who take us on a journey to understanding the embodiment of servingness, meaning it is lived out daily in all practices and ideologies at Chicano Student Programs (CSP) at UC Riverside. CSP has been embodying servingness for 50 years by design. The campus and the entire UC system can and should follow CSP, and so should our listeners. Dra. Arlene Cano Matute, a community based scholar, practitioner and mother serves as the Assistant Director of CSP where she nurtures a comunidad that leads the way for Chicanx/Latinx student success in the UC system. In this episode we learn about the Encuentros, Student Participatory Action Research, and Testimonios(ESPARiTU) research project documenting the historical and present-day experiences and trajectories of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x students at a UC HSRI. She is joined by 4 UCR graduates/alums, alexis meza, Ashley Nicole Diaz, Bibiana Canales, and Brenda De Angel Vega who share their stories of learning, growth, and healing under the care of their femtor Arlene, who embodies servingness con corazon. If you aren’t engaging students in HSI sensemaking, you should be, and this episode provides an example of what this looks like. Guests: Arlene Cano Matute (she/her/hers/ella), Assistant Director, Chicano Student Programs & PI, Encuentros, Student Participatory Action Research, and Testimonios (ESPARiTU) Instagram: @arlene.cano1 | X: @csp_ucr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlene-cano-matute-ph-d-6a840679/ alexis meza (He/Him/His), Graduate Coordinator NYU Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, M.A. Candidate in Higher Education at New York University LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alexismeza09 Ashley Nicole Diaz (She/Ella/They/Elle), Youth Development Specialist for DLI 1st/2nd Grade Students, H.E.A.R.T.S Instagram: @pedazos_demi_alma Bibiana Canales (she/they) Brenda De Angel Vega (She/Her/Ella) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-de-angel-vega-1118a4211 IG: @b_firebaugh APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, September 24). Embodying Servingness: UCR Chicano Student Programs. (No.303) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/966a6021/embodying-servingness-ucr-chicano-student-programs Attachments / Show Notes: https://csp.ucr.edu/Chicanx/Latinx Student Success at UC Riverside: Capturing the History of a Thriving Hispanic-Serving Institution (pdf)https://www.ucop.edu/hsi-initiative/campuses/index.html#riversidehttps://www.ucop.edu/hsi-initiative/events/index.htmlhttps://calisphere.org/collections/27876/https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2022/12/13/historic-chicano-student-newspaper-made-available-onlinehttps://steinhardt.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2023-05/JoSA-Volume19-FINAL.pdf

In this episode we focus on servingness in math and mathematics spaces on campus. I talk to Dr. Luis Leyva, associate professor of mathematics education & STEM higher education at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Omayra Ortega, associate professor of mathematics & statistics at Sonoma State University, and Ronimar López-Bazán, a first generation nonbinary Chicane mathematics graduate from Sonoma State University. Luis, Omayra, & Ronimar talk about the ways white supremacy and heteropatriarchy have dominated college level math and share ideas for disrupting it. They also talk about the TIPS [Transformational Inclusion in Postsecondary Education] project, funded by an NSF HSI grant and led by Dr. Ortega, Dr. Leyva, and other co-PIs and student researchers such as Ronimar. This episode is full of knowledge about changing mindsets for faculty and educators for servingness, organizational approaches to servingness within mathematics and beyond, and disrupting deficit thinking about how students engage in math. Guests: Luis Antonio Leyva (he/him/él), Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Vanderbilt University, Peabody College of Education & Human Development Twitter: @LuisLeyvaEdu Faculty Webpage: https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/luis-leyva Research Lab Webpage: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/prismlab/ Dr. Omayra Ortega (they/she), Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Assistant Dean of Research & Internships, School of Science & Technology, Sonoma State University LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omayra-ortega-94859bb/ Faculty webpage: https://math.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/omayra-ortega Ronimar López-Bazán (They/them/theirs), Student Assistant, Sonoma State University Instagram: @Veryberryqueer APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, September 17). Disrupting Racialized Cisheteropatriarchal Math Classrooms for Servingness. (No.302) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/episode/9ec0eda5/disrupting-racialized-cisheteropatriarchy-in-math-classrooms-for-servingness Attachments / Show notes: https://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.44.2022https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312221096455https://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.44.2022

In the first episode of season 3 of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? I talk to Dr. Whitney Pirtle, Associate Professor of Sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, where she also directs the Sociology of Health and Equity (SHE) Lab. As a formative critical race scholar, her research explores issues relating to race, identity, inequality, health equity, and Black feminist praxis. Her latest work includes writing on Covid-19 pandemic inequities and institutional anti-Blackness. In this episode we talk about her experiences as 1 of 5 Black tenure track faculty members at an HSI and about how she stepped into research about anti-Blackness within HSI spaces. While Dr. Pirtle describes ways that we can acknowledge and disrupt anti-Blackness in HSIs, she also tells her story about how she has mentored Black students and protected them from anti-Blackness, while also thriving as a critical scholar and teacher who centers race and raced students in her classroom. In this episode Dr. Pirtle asks, “what’s good, HSIs?” Guest: Whitney Pirtle (she/her), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced Social Media: Twitter: @thephdandme | Instagram: @whitneypirtle_thephdandme Website: https://sites.google.com/view/whitney-pirtle-phd/home APA Citation: Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2023, September 10). Anti-Blackness at HSIs. (No.301) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/301 Show Notes https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859211044948https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120922942

For the final episode of the second season of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? I talk to Katia Paz who serves at the inaugural Associate Provost for Hispanic Initiatives & International Programs at Montclair State University. Dr. Paz is a part of the Provost’s senior leadership team and is a professor and founding chair of the Family Science and Human Development Department. In this episode we discuss some of her challenges and successes in enacting servingness in her position. She draws on her own research with families and communities to think about servingness. We also talk about the unique aspects of enacting servingness in New Jersey. Guest: Katia Paz (she/her/ella), Associate Provost for Hispanic Initiatives & International Programs, Montclair State University Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katia-paz-goldfarb-692176161/

In this episode of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? we learn with Dra. Angélica Garcia who serves as president of Berkeley City College (BCC), a Hispanic-serving community college in California. Dr. Garcia is passionate about issues of access, equity, and student success in higher education. For nearly two decades, her professional experiences have included teaching and administrative roles in non-profit organizations, secondary education, and higher education. She believes that community colleges serve as pathways to liberation for historically minoritized communities and promotes this in institutional reform efforts. Come learn with this poderosa on how to lead HSIs through an anti-racist lens, how to approach governance when doing equity work, and how to engage with policy in a way that elevates servingness. Dra. Angélica Garcia (she | her | ella), President, Berkeley City College @BCCPrezGarcia (Twitter) | Dr. Angélica Garcia (LinkedIn) | BCCPrezGarcia (Instagram) | @gmangelica (Instagram) Show Notes: https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/ https://cccolegas.org/ https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/blog/berkeley-city-college-president-angelica-garcia-joins-excelencia-in-educations-presidents-for-latino-student-success/ https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/blog/bcc-president-dr-angelica-garcia-selected-for-aspen-institutes-new-presidents-fellowship/