Hispanic Serving Institution

After years of advocacy for a permanent space, the Latine community should not have to compromise — especially at a campus that intends to cultivate and serve its diverse community.

ASUC senators discussed upcoming projects with campus administration and passed new resolutions at the weekly Senate meeting Wednesday.

To be a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, at least 25% of a not-for-profit institution’s full-time undergraduates must be Hispanic. Today, 21 of the 23 CSU campuses and six of the nine UC campuses with undergraduate education are HSIs. UC Berkeley, currently, is not.

G. Cristina Mora, an associate professor in the UC Berkeley sociology department and co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies, said she feels invisible and underrepresented at UC Berkeley as a member of the Latine community.

INSIGHT into Diversity magazine announced Sept. 20 that the UC system received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.

Olufemi Ogundele, associate vice chancellor of enrollment management and dean of undergraduate admissions, answered questions and discussed changes to UC Berkeley’s admissions process to increase the diversity of incoming classes during a Berkeley Conversations event.

After the Hispanic Serving Institution, or HSI, initiative was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, UC Berkeley is continuing its efforts to increase diversity.

A proposal to temporarily designate space in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union for the Latinx Resource Center was voted down by the ASUC Student Union Board of Directors at their Jan. 15 meeting.

There's an initial pinprick of fear that makes me wonder whether knowing that I transferred from a community college would make people see me differently.

Under new admissions leadership, UC Berkeley admitted its most ethnically diverse freshman class in more than 30 years.