HSI Grants
Since 2015, UC Santa Cruz has earned several Department of Education Hispanic-Serving Institution grants as the lead campus, sub-awardee, or supplemental award recipient. The grants fund programs and resources that promote educational equity, cultural inclusivity, and academic achievement.
HSI Initiatives uses an Integrated Logic Model to unify their programs across all grants and their work toward equity, for students’ college and career pathways, and institutional change. Click below to see the current Integrated Logic Model guiding today’s efforts and our Envisioning the Future of HSI packet (2023).
CULTURA
The CULTURA Project aims to integrate and build capacity across student success initiatives by implementing the Ecological Validation Model, integrating student voices in the work of institutional agents across campus ecologies, and cycles of research, practice, and policies (Hallett et al., 2023; Kitchen et al., 2021).
This five-year $3 million grant was awarded in October 2024.
Cultivamos Excelencia
The Cultivamos Excelencia Project will build a transfer-receptive culture for Hispanic/Latiné and low-income community college students to thrive in their transfer pathways to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and beyond, opening opportunities to graduate studies.
This five-year $3 million grant was awarded in October 2022.
GANAS Career Pathways
The GANAS Career Pathways Project strives to support Latiné, low-income, and underrepresented students by removing barriers that impede their success at UCSC and preparing them for rewarding careers once they graduate.
This five-year $3 million grant was awarded in October 2020.
GANAS Graduate Pathways
The GANAS Graduate Pathways Project includes interventions designed to overcome institutional barriers that impede Latiné graduate student preparation, retention, advancement to candidacy, and completion.
This five-year $3 million grant was awarded in October 2020.
Integrated Logic Model
This one-page Integrated Logic Model unifies our grants’ activities and outcomes with shared language toward equity, for students’ college and career pathways, and for institutional change.