As a Research 1 University UCSC expands our identity to be a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI). Thus, the HSI Initiatives team which is comprised of dedicated scholars and practitioners is committed to creating systemic institutional change rooted in data-driven practices. We seek to contribute to the nation's work on HSI efforts via 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 Initiative 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
• 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