The HSI Movement: Strategies Driving Change at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

What it means to intentionally serve Latine students in higher education. Hispanic-Serving Institutions now make up 20% of US colleges and universities, yet enrollment, eligibility, and grant-seeking alone do not guarantee meaningful change for Latine students.The HSI Movement examines what happens when change agents commit to intentionally transforming the institution to truly serve these students as an organizing and foundational principle. Completing a trilogy on HSIs that includes Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice, Gina Ann Garcia centers the voices of practitioners who are actively reshaping their campuses.Through detailed accounts of institutional change, the book shows how leaders and staff interpret HSI identity in practice by embedding it in strategic planning, staffing decisions, student services, mental health support, and relationships with families and communities.These efforts reveal the labor, res