Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play an important role in educating Latinos. The purpose of this article is to apply and extend the Typology of Hispanic-Serving Institutions Organizational Identities framework and propose a systematic rubric as a tool for assessment and evaluation. The article contains analyses and discourse for HSIs…

A "student scholars" program was developed to engage undergraduates at a large, public, land-grant research university with its public service and outreach mission, through cohort meetings, supervised internships, and site visits. Qualitative and pre-/post-participation quantitative data from the first cohort of 10 students show that…

This paper proposes a model for developmental academic advising (DAA) at New York's Bronx Community College (BCC) and reviews the purposes of DAA and barriers to its implementation. The first section presents a conceptual model of DAA and its priorities, indicating that it functions as an active attempt to stimulate personal and intellectual…