Who we are
The STEM in HSI Working Group (HSI-WG) at the University of Arizona (UA), formed in 2017 as a result of NSF HSI Conference Award #1748526, The Southwest Conference on Transforming STEM Education in HSIs.
Mission
To engage diverse units and stakeholders at UA and other southwestern HSIs in developing an institutional sense of "servingness" at new and emerging HSIs.
Publications
April 2021: Engaging Faculty in Shifting Toward Holistic Review: Changing Graduate Admissions Procedures at a Land-Grant, Hispanic-Serving Institution. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00383
March 2020: HSIs and Community Partners: A Framework for Strengthening Servingness through Engagement. In G. Garcia, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
April 2018: Transforming STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions in the United States: A Consensus Report. Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=3238702
Marla Franco, PhD
Assistant Vice Provost, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Higher Education
Guada Lozano, PhD
Director, Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES)
Director, External Relations & Evaluation, Mathematical Sciences
Associate Research Professor, Mathematics
Vignesh Subbian, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, and BIO5 Institute
Distinguished Fellow, Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES)
Projects & Engagements
HACU Webinar: Supporting Broader Impacts in STEM Equity by Connecting Across HSIs.
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Broader Impacts Roadtrip. National dissemination of our consensus report Transforming STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions in the United States: A Consensus Report.
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HSI Adaptive Case Studies. Development of competitively funded adaptive case studies to achieve transformational broader impacts at the intersection of equity, STEM education, and HSIs.
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2019 Broader Impacts Roadtrip
Jun: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL
STEM Servingness at Hispanic Serving Institutions
May: National Alliance for Broader Impact Summit, Tucson, AZ
Apr: Alliance for HSI Educators Best Practices Conf., Riverside, CA
Transforming STEM Education at HSIs
Apr: ASCN Transforming Institutions Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Towards Servingness: Transforming STEM Education at Hispanic Serving Institutions
Jan: Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD
Feb: Western Regional Noyce Conference, Tucson, AZ
This work was initially supported by the National Science Foundation under award #1748526. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.