Latina Faculty Leadership Through Mentoring and Advocacy at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

• In Event: Looking Beyond the Designation: Advancing Research on Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Abstract

Institutions of higher education are called to diversify their faculty to better serve a growing diverse student population. This is particularly pressing at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) whose students and faculty ratio in terms of ethnicity shows a considerable disparity. In an urgent need to better serve Latinx students at a borderland US-Mexico institution, called Choya University, a mentoring program was initiated with early career Latinx faculty interested in giving back to the community and supporting students through mentoring. Through Latina faculty’s participation in the mentoring program, they were able to share their perspective on the changes needed in the classrooms and their intentions to be those agents of change on behalf of the Latinx student population.

Authors

• Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University
  Presenting Author

• Celeste Romero, New Mexico State University
  Presenting Author