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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. What is Title V?
Authorized by Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title V, Sections
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

6. 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
Part B Program: Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA)
Submission Deadline: Summer 2011
Award: Up to $575,000 per year for 5 years
Gerardo González

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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
Provost Emily Cutrer

14. 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

15. “Dream Sheet” What is the purpose? What are the criteria?
When are they due?
November 8, 2010 at 5pm.
Submit to
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

16. Questions?

17. A link to view the Mediasite recording of the HSI Town Hall, Powerpoint, and “Dream Sheet” will be provided at the HSI homepage <