Hispanic Serving Institute (HSI) Taskforce III Preparing for an HSI Title V Grant Application October 19, 2010

Cynthia Chavez Metoyer, Committee Chair HSI Taskforce Team III Cynthia Chavez Metoyer, Committee Chair Jan Cushman, Auxiliary & Research Services Corp Marsha Gable, Admissions & Recruitment Gerardo González, Graduate Studies & Research Soheila Jorjani, CoBA Kimberley Knowles-Yánez, CoAS Delores Lindsey, CoE Patricia Morris, Institutional Planning & Analysis Arcela Núñez-Álvarez, NLRC Greg Toya, Office of Dean of Students

AGENDA Welcome and CSUSM’s current HSI status Cynthia Chavez Metoyer Title V: Hispanic Serving Institution Opportunities Gerardo González and Jan Cushman Graduation Initiative Committee report Provost Emily Cutrer Dream Sheet: Ideas for the HSI-Title V Grant Arcela Núñez-Álvarez Questions Cynthia: Welcome, recorded for viewing, thanks/introduction, purpose of meeting, overview

Latino/a Undergraduate FTES Headcount by Semester, Fall 2004-Fall 2010 Fall 2007 for Remediation Intervention, Learning Communities and Spring 2008 for FOE Initiative. Fall 2010: 29.3% Latino student population.

What is Title V? Authorized by Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title V, Sections 501-518 The purpose of the Title V legislation is to: Expand educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of Hispanic students, and; Expand and enhance the academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability of colleges and universities that are educating the majority of Hispanic college students and helping large number of Hispanic students and other low-income individuals complete postsecondary degrees An institution of higher learning with an enrollment of at least 25 percent Hispanic undergraduate full-time equivalent students (FTES) is eligible to apply for Title V funds Gerardo González

Title V Programs Part A Program: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Submission Deadline: Late Spring 2011 Award: Up to $650,000 per year for 5 years http://www2.ed.gov/programs/idueshsi/index.html Part B Program: Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Submission Deadline: Summer 2011 Award: Up to $575,000 per year for 5 years http://www2.ed.gov/programs/ppoha/index.html Gerardo González

Part A: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program Purpose Expand educational opportunities for, and improve the attainment of, Hispanic students. Enable HSIs to expand and enhance their academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability Gerardo González

Part A Fundable Activities Scientific or laboratory equipment for teaching Construction or renovation of instructional facilities Faculty development Purchase of educational materials Academic tutoring or counseling programs Funds and administrative management Joint use of facilities Endowment funds Distance education technologies Teacher education Student support services. Gerardo González

Part A Fundable Activities (Cont’d) Activities to improve student services, including innovative and customized instruction courses designed to retain students and move the students into core courses Articulation agreements and student support programs designed to facilitate the transfer of students from two-year to four-year institutions Providing education, counseling services, and financial information designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of students and their families. NOTE:  The Title V Program is NOT a scholarship or fellowship program for individuals or for research. Gerardo González

Part B: Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Purpose Expand postbaccalaureate educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of, Hispanic students; and Expand the postbaccalaureate academic offerings as well as enhance the program quality in the institutions of higher education that are educating the majority of Hispanic college students and helping large numbers of Hispanic and low-income students complete postsecondary degrees. Gerardo González

PPOHA Fundable Activities Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes. Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement of classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services. Purchase of library books, periodicals, technical and other scientific journals, microfilm, microfiche, and other educational materials, including telecommunications program materials. Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, faculty research, curriculum development, and academic instruction. Gerardo González

PPOHA Fundable Activities (Cont’d) Support for low-income postbaccalaureate students including outreach, academic support services, mentoring, scholarships, fellowships, and other financial assistance to permit the enrollment of such students in postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree granting programs. Creating or improving facilities for Internet or other distance education technologies, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services. Collaboration with other institutions of higher education to expand postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree offerings. Gerardo González

CSUSM Graduation Initiative A focused, organized, and campuswide effort to help students attain the goal of a bachelor’s degree.  We will improve our graduate rates for all students, whether they enter CSUSM as freshmen or transfers, by a minimum of six percent by 2015. We will cut in half the gap in graduation rates between underrepresented minority students and the rest of the student population. Builds on existing campus activities, such as Foundations of Excellence in the First Year http://www.csusm.edu/aa/gradinitiative/index.html Provost Emily Cutrer

Graduation Initiative Discovery Café Key themes identified by cross-section of campus faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni: Information resources—need to do a better job of connecting students (and others) with available information about support available for academic and non-academic issues, and more information and connection for transfer students. Intervention for success—need to more proactively help students Engage students in campus through employment and student Cohort/community—More learning communities at all levels Mentoring Data collection and dissemination—need more information about students more widely distributed and need to be collecting and analyzing data about both our successes and failures. Provost Emily Cutrer

“Dream Sheet” What is the purpose? What are the criteria? When are they due? November 8, 2010 at 5pm. Submit to jcushman@csusm.edu Our next steps? Evaluate all proposals Contact individuals and groups with meritorious proposals Form a grant writing team Prepare our institutional grant for HSI-Title V grant call Arcela Núñez-Álvarez

Questions?

A link to view the Mediasite recording of the HSI Town Hall, Powerpoint, and “Dream Sheet” will be provided at the HSI homepage <http://www2.csusm.edu/hsi/>