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Enrolling and Graduating in an Hispanic Serving Institution
Dina Gonzalez-Pina, Assistant Dean for Multicultural Ministries
Steve Varvis, Provost
WASC ARC, 2014
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Valley Hispanic Students
• High percentage first generation• Poverty, field workers• High Pell Grant recipients• High(est) Cal Grant recipients• Many—English is second language• Brookings Institute: “concentrated poverty,”• Fresno County and Region: “this Appalachia” Expectation: not private institution, low(er) academic success
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16 Year History (Traditional Undergraduate)
96 98 0 2 4 6 8 10 120%
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Hispanic Student Population
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Student Success: Fall to Fall Retention (FT/FT)
F 2010-11 F 2011-12 F 2012-130
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HispanicWhite/NHAverage
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Graduation Rates (FT/FT)
4 Year (50) 5 Year (60) 6 Year (63)
2006 All 47% 56% 59%Hispanic 46 56 61
2007 All 43 53 54Hispanic 41 52 54
2008 All 49 60Hispanic 49 61
2009 All 48Hispanic 49
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Top 10 HSI Graduation Rate
“FPU has been ranked 10th nationally among Hispanic-Serving Institutions in graduating Hispanic students by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
According to the Chronicle’s 2013-2014 Almanac, FPU’s overall graduation rate for first-time, full-time students is 57.1 percent in six years (based on 2011 figures). The rate for Hispanic students is nearly identical at 55.2 percent. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Almanac-2013/141183”
(FPU Press Release, September 6, 2013)
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Beginnings
• Intentional Hire, Admissions, 1993• Institutional Mission• Admissions Director meets Vicente Fox• Staff and Faculty Commitment• Financial Aid—Cal Grant (and return of), Pell
Grant, academic aid, need based—using every resource available—affordability
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Dynamics of Student Success
• From Admissions to “Multicultural Ministries”• Family Trust; Trusted Mentors• Meeting with families in their homes
• Residences, financial aid, registrar, university bureaucracy
• Counseling • Encourage academic discipline
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Dynamics of Student Success
• Service learning; purpose, goals• Relevance, contextual learning• Clubs: Cultural Awareness and Knowledge Enrichment (CAKE) • Amigos Unidos, La Fe, Colors of India, Asian Flavor, Images
• Conferences and International Travel (academic credit)• Validate culture, Central America• Conferences of Hispanic students
• Graduate studies
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Samaritan Scholars
2001-02 Undocumented Students
• Elementary and Secondary; not College• High School Counselors—No Options• Outreach/DiversityAdmission Director
DeanPresidentBoard Chair• 2/year to 8; later academic aid added
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Stories of Samaritan Scholars and Others
• Nayely—deportation and US Senate• Javier--Graduate studies and return to rural area as Physician’s
Assistant• Dulce—PhD Physics• Maribel--PhD Clinical Psych• Miguel--MBA• Edgar--Mexican Consulate• Siro—CPA• Lubia—Forensic Scientist, Dept of JusticeMennonite Central Committee—legal assistance
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Explanations and Developing Program
• Administration’s questions• Program and needs• Cross-cultural understanding• Difficulty of measuring
• Financial Aid• Samaritan housing—tuition or full cost?• Work-study, internships/research
• Questions from other schools• Research and analysis
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Recognition of Importance
• Multi-cultural Ministries—• A place to be, work, learn, serve
• Cal Grant Day, Sacramento—President Attends• Latina Action Day• Former Admissions Director/current board member now co-
chair• Latina faculty and staff attend
• Advocacy
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STEM Partnership
• Title V: College of the Sequoias/FPU School of Natural Sciences• Public/Private partnership
• Creative Leadership: former Provost, Dean of Natural Sciences• Summer Bridge/Parents• Learning Communities• Sense of place• GE Core and Math/Sciences• Supplemental Instruction
• Educating the entire campus
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STEM: Hispanic/Latino Supplemental Instruction/Learning Comm.
BIB 100 BIB 100A CHEM 103 CHEM 103A COM 110A HIST 120 MATH 2100
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STEMNonSTEM
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Further Work
• Development of Learning Communities• Network of Latino alumni• Other Ethnic Groups• African-American, Southeast Asian
• Deepening understanding on the campus• Mentoring of young staff/faculty leaders• Hiring of staff and faculty