Student Success at HSIs
An ethnographic case study of four CAHSI departments identified organizational behaviors that promote student success at HSIs. The table below provides a high-level view of some of the findings.
Employing a talent-development mindset
- Assessing talent expansively
- Emphasizing importance of teaching’s impact
- Identifying and working with student assets
- Making it acceptable for students to fail and try again
- Enacting flexibility in course accommodations for working and caretaking students
Creating organizational structures to share responsibility for student success
- Facilitating access to human and financial resources
- Hiring student-centered personnel
- Engaging staff in meaningful ways
- Disaggregating and monitoring student enrollment and graduation data
- Employing student data to promote organizational improvement
Building multidimensional student support
- Academic (curriculum, pedagogy, tutoring, research experiences)
- Financial (scholarships, on-campus jobs, internships, departmental jobs)
- Social (faculty validation, peer support, community building)
- Cultural (values, family involvement, rituals)
- Career (courses, conferences, internships, workshops)
For more details, please see: Núñez, A.M (2022). Creating Cultures of Student Success: Insights from Hispanic-Serving Institution Computer Science Departments. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. 54 (5), pp. 44-51. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2022.2101867.
