Hispanic-Serving Institution Initiatives

Chancellor Larive giving a presentation

Publications

As a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI), we aim to advance scholarly work and share best practices related to HSI efforts through publications and conference presentations. We are proud to share the impact of our student-centered programs and services in a number of articles and publications that highlight our best practices and the outcomes of our HSI work that started in 2012.

UC HSI Initiatives briefings and reports

  • Covarrubias, R. & Quinteros, K. 2023. “UC Santa Cruz Faculty of Color: Exposing and Reforming Structures of Whiteness in Leadership”. UC Hispanic-Serving Institutions Initiative. Oakland, CA.
  • Cuellar, M.G., Poblete, J., and Contreras, F. (2023). Reimagining The University of California to Serve Latinxs Equitably: A Blueprint for Becoming a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI) System. Davis, CA: Report Prepared for The University of California Office of the President.

Book chapters

UCSC papers in G. A. Garcia (Ed.) (2020). Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs. Information Age Publishing.

  • Bhattacharya, N., Sánchez Ordaz, A., Mosqueda, E., & Cooper, C. R. Redesigning the gateway college Algebra course with inclusive and asset-based pedagogy: Rethinking “servingness” at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. (pp. 97-116). 
  • Cooper, C. R., Reguerín, P. G., Herzon, C., Sánchez Ordaz, A., Gonzalez, E., & Rocha-Ruiz, M.  Unifying equity practice, research, and policies at a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution for systemic servingness. (pp. 175-193).
  • Covarrubias, R., Vazquez, A., Moreno, R., Estrada, J., Valle, I., & Zuniga, K. Engaging families to foster holistic success of low-income, Latinx first-generation students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. (pp. 313-336).
  • Reguerín, P. G., Poblete, J., Cooper, C. R., Sánchez Ordaz, A., & Moreno, R. (2020). Becoming a racially just Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): A case study of the University of California, Santa Cruz. (pp. 41-59). 
  • Sanchez Ordaz, A., Reguerín, P. G., & Sanchez, S. E. Using interactive theater to strengthen holistic advising at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Messages of belonging and affirmation. (pp. 79-95).

Published journal articles

  • Bhattacharya, N., Langhout, R. D., Sylvane Vaccarino-Ruiz, S., Jackson, N., Woolfe, M., Matta, W., Zuniga, B., Rowe, Z., & Gibo, L. (2022). “Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression:” The College Math Academy as an intervention into mathematics education. American Journal of Community Psychology, 70, 228– 241. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12573 
  • Casanova, S. & Alonso Blanco, V.J.** (2023, equal contribution authorship). “Transfers tend to be an afterthought”: The Role of Institutional Support for Staff in Creating a Receptive Culture for Transfer Students of Color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000527
  • Cooper, C. R., Rocha Ruiz, M., & Herzon, C. (2020). Using integrated logic models in research, practice, and evaluation to build educational equity in students’ pathways and systemic change, Equity and Excellence in Education, 53, 105-120.
  • Norouzi, N., Robinson, C., Covarrubias, R., Hernandez, R., Weldegabriel, D., Benner, G., Sang, W. & Espericueta, R. (2021, October). Baskin Engineering Excellence Scholars bridge program: Planning, implementation, and evaluation. In 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-8).
  • Ramirez, G., Covarrubias, R., Jackson, M., & Son, J. Y. (2020). Making hidden resources visible in a minority serving college context. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 256–268.

Presentations

  • 2024 AERA:
    • Advancing Educational Justice for Students and Systems by Redefining Successful College and Healthcare Career Pathways
  • 2023 UCSC Advising Forum:
    • Advising on the Pathway to Graduate School
  • 2023 AERA:
    • Pandemic Partnerships: Advancing Educational Justice for Students and Systems by Streamlining College and Career Pathways
    • Developing a strengths-based Transfer Receptive Culture for Latinx transfer students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
    • Creating a Transfer Champion Workgroup for Racial Equity
Additional Presentations
  • 2023 Department of Education Lunch & Learn series:
    • College & Career Pathways
  • 2023 NASPA:
    • Introducing a Summer Introduction to Undergraduate Research Program
  • 2023 AHSIE:
    • Universities of California Becoming HSRIs: Testimonios of Practice
    • College Math Academy: Redesigning of a gateway UC precalculus course to promote STEM retention
    • Integrated Logic Models: Advancing Equity in Student and Institutional Trajectories
    • Introducing a Summer Introduction to Undergraduate Research Program
  • 2023 UCSC Faculty Fellows:
    • UCSC as an HSI: Guiding Principles to Achieving Student Success
  • 2022 ASHE:
    • Conceptualizing Servingness at Hispanic-Serving Research Institutions (HSRIs)
  • 2022 HACU:
    • Integrated Logic Models: Advancing Equity in Student and Institutional Trajectories
  • 2022 AHSIE:
    • Pathways to Graduate School via PPOHA
    • Baskin Engineering Excellence Scholars
    • A Success Story: Using Embedded Course Advising to Disrupt Barriers in Foundational STEM Courses
  • 2021 UCD Graduate Advising Conference & 2022 NASPA:
    • GANAS Graduate Pathways: A UC Santa Cruz Hispanic-Serving Institution Initiative
  • 2018 UC/CSU Learning Support:
    • Redesign Math, Redesign Team of Support
    • Logic Models
  • 2018 AHSIE:
    • Equity Minded Leadership: Disrupting Patterns of Racial Inequity at a Public Four-Year HSI
    • Building Integrated Logic Models: Educational Equity, Students’ Pathways, and Institutional Change
    • Para que el Día de Mañana no Sufra: Promoting Student Success through Family Engagement at an HSI
    • Graduating Students of Color: Advanced Methods in Analyzing Graduation Rates and Equity at 4-YR HSIs
    • Fostering Latinx Leadership and Sense of Belonging
    • Para atrás, para coger impulso: Looking Back in Order to Streamline Future HSI Transfer Pathways
    • Identifying Researchable Elements: Utilizing Logic Models for Guiding Program Evaluations
    • Writing Originating in Reading and Dialogue (WORD): Improving College Writing via Critical Reading
    • How to Work with Millennial Students Today
  • 2017 AHSIE:
    • An H.S.I. Partnership Building Integrated Logic Models for Student Pathways and Institutional Change

Last modified: Jun 18, 2025