Cal Poly’s Department of Culture and Institutional Excellence awarded 13 high impact mini-grants totalling $28,000 to support Hispanic-serving projects and programs for the 2025-26 academic year, including workshops, events and a speaker series.
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Cal Poly students and faculty protest U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruiting at the career fair
Cal Poly’s annual career fair will proceed as planned, despite widespread outcry from student and faculty groups who view the presence of U.S. Customs and Border Protection as “hypocritical” and “frustrating” due to the agency’s involvement in recent immigration raids targeting people of color.
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Kennedy Library opens a Latino book collection to expand representation
Kyle Tanaka and Victoria Tonascia collaborated to create a Latinx/e book collection at Kennedy Library, featuring 213 books in various genres and languages, with the goal of increasing representation and providing students with the opportunity to see themselves reflected in the library’s collections.
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HSI mini-grant fuels Chicano SLO Archive, preserving and celebrating Chicano history at Cal Poly
The Chicano SLO Archive at Cal Poly is using a $2,000 HSI mini-grant to digitize and catalog materials that highlight the histories and contributions of Chicano and Latino communities in San Luis Obispo, and to create exhibitions that engage diverse student curators and participants.
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Mustang Success Center launches family-centered HSI advising pilot
The Mustang Success Center and University Advising launched the “La Familia y Communidad” Advising Pilot, which utilizes HSI grants to bring families into the advising process and provide them with resources and cultural connections to empower them in their student’s higher education journey.
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Housing programming helps Hispanic students build a sense of belonging
The University Housing HSI Mini Grant funded the Un Camino a tu Comunidad Series, which provided students in the EOP and TRIO Achievers programs with a sense of belonging and helped them build a strong community of peers.
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Road to HSI: Hispanic/Latino enrollment hits 25% for the first time
Cal Poly Hispanic/Latino enrollment reached 25% for the first time.
The university has to maintain 25% Hispanic/Latino enrollment for two years to be a Hispanic Serving Institution. which eligible to receive specific grants from the federal government.
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What do Latinx students want to see as Cal Poly prepares to become an HSI? Mustang News asked them.
The Spanish version can be found here. Cal Poly is closing in on the 25% Latinx undergraduate enrollment criteria eligible to receive the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) federal designation. As of 2023, Hispanic or Latinx undergraduate students comprised 22.92% of the student body, according to Cal Poly enrollment data last updated Jan. 4, 2024. In […]
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¿Qué quieren ver estudiantes Latine/x mientras Cal Poly se prepara a volverse en un HSI? Mustang News les preguntó.
translated by Kathryn Hutchinson Cal Poly está acercando al criterio de al menos 25% de la matrícula de estudiantes universitarios siendo hispanos para recibir la denominación de Instituciones de Servicio a Hispanos (HSI). A partir de 2023, estudiantes universitarios Hispanos o Latine/x constan 22.92% del cuerpo estudiantil, de acuerdo con el data matrícula, actualizado por […]
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Cal Poly students respond to the university’s efforts to becoming an HSI
Recently, Cal Poly vocalized its efforts on trying to become a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Throughout October 2023, the campus hosted a series of events and symposiums to discuss how they are approaching this transition and the importance of being a diversity-achieving and inclusive institution.
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Under-served computer science students are leaving at a higher rate than white students — but the CS Department is taking action
Looking around his classes, computer science sophomore Jesus Meza notices the glaring imbalance of diversity. Classes are dominated by white men and a high Asian population, while there are a handful of other students of color, and the number of women stalls at one to two in a class of 30, he said. According to […]