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the H.S.I. designation from the U.S. Department of Education

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Wide-ranging Academic Programs

Mt. SAC academic programs are widely recognized with programs earning recognition at regional, state, national and international competitions.

379 degrees and certificate programs

2,210 associate degrees awarded in 2021

1,785 associate degree for transfers awarded in 2021

1,064 certificates awarded in 2021

Transfers to Four-Years

Mt. SAC is consistently listed among the Top 10 colleges in the state that transfers students to 4-year institutions.

2,532 students transferred to four-year institutions

558 students transferred to UC campuses

1,396 students transferred to CSU campuses

233 students transferred to private colleges and universities

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Training the Workforce

Mt. SAC is one of largest workforce training providers in California. It is a leader in economic development and vocational training because of partnerships with local industries, community-based organizations, and professional associations. Popular careers include:

Veterinary technology

Business management

Nursing

Firefighting, Paramedics, EMT

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A Community Resource

Mt. SAC offers low-cost and no-cost community education classes for children, courses geared toward seniors and everything in between. Programs include English as a Second Language, vocational education, community enrichment classes and more. Popular community programs include:

High School Diploma

Education for Older Adults

ESL (English as a Second Language)

Health Careers

College for Kids Summer programs

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A Diverse Student Body*

3.94% African-American

0.14% American Indian and Alaskan

15.90% Asian

62.45% Latinx

3.32% Multi-Ethnic

4.24% Pacific Islander / Filipino

9.79% White Non-Hispanic

0.22% Decline to State

51.92% are part-time and 25.73% are full-time
*note: Numbers do not add up to 100 because some students selected "unknown" or chose not to respond.
Financial Aid

75% of students receive financial aid to help them pay for tuition, supplies, and living costs

$68.6 million in financial aid is awarded to Mt. SAC students annually

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Facts and figures of the Mt. San Antonio College community

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Raices Latinx Faculty and Staff Association

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Latinx Faculty and Staff Association was established in February 2018 to support the needs and interests of Latinx employees at Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC). Raices is to empower and engage Latinx employees at Mt. SAC by developing, advocating and responding to the academic, social, political and economic needs of the Latinx community.

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Join us in Freedom Dreaming the ways to amplify the Mt. SAC HSI Identity and imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. I invite us all to freedom dream about colleges and universities that foster reflection, joy, and healing.

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Join us in Freedom Dreaming the ways to amplify the Mt. SAC HSI Identity and imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. I invite us all to freedom dream about colleges and universities that foster reflection, joy, and healing.

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Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Just...

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Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To he...

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Hi there students! Talk to Dani Silva (AS President) if you are interested in serving on any of our Academic Senate Committees as a voting student member. We always welcome your voices. Your insights in the campus governance process is so valuable and important to us!

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Hi there students! Talk to Dani Silva (AS President) if you are interested in serving on any of our Academic Senate Committees as a voting student member. We always welcome your voices. Your insights in the campus governance process is so valuable and important to us!

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 It helps us create an identity that for me instilled pride and I think this pride for who you are is what is missing. Many of us dont know who we are and i think spotlighting great people in Latinx history and the adversity they faced and how they overcame it or how they helped define who we are today helps us appreciate who we are and also inspires us to work harder for our children. I hope there are more focus on items like this that make us feel proud to be who we are and why.

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 It helps us create an identity that for me instilled pride and I think this pride for who you are is what is missing. Many of us dont know who we are and i think spotlighting great people in Latinx history and the adversity they faced and how they overcame it or how they helped define who we are today helps us appreciate who we are and also inspires us to work harder for our children. I hope there are more focus on items like this that make us feel proud to be who we are and why.

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Many of us dont know who we are and i think spotlighting great people in Latinx history and the adversity they faced and how they overcame it or how they helped define who we are today helps us appreciate who we are and also inspires us to work harder for our children. I hope there are more focus on items like this that make us feel proud to be who we are and why. Ruben Perez

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Many of us dont know who we are and i think spotlighting great people in Latinx history and the adversity they faced and how they overcame it or how they helped define who we are today helps us appreciate who we are and also inspires us to work harder for our children. I hope there are more focus on items like this that make us feel proud to be who we are and why. Ruben Perez

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One of my FAVORITE scholars and thought leaders!! #BettinaLove

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One of my FAVORITE scholars and thought leaders!! #BettinaLove

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Hi Diana! I was hoping to get in touch with you about the status of The Mt. Sac Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE); I saw some fliers posted in Engineering and was wondering if there was anything I could do to help out as new FT Faculty in Phys/Eng!

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Hi Diana! I was hoping to get in touch with you about the status of The Mt. Sac Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE); I saw some fliers posted in Engineering and was wondering if there was anything I could do to help out as new FT Faculty in Phys/Eng!

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Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice

B eyond having over a quarter of their undergraduate students Hispanic, what makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, faculty, and staff transform these institutions into spaces that promote racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation? In this book, Dr. Garcia argues that in order to serve Latinx students and other students of color, these institutions must acknowledge how whiteness operates across the organization, from the ways that it is governed and how decisions are made to how education and knowledge are delivered. Diversity alone is insufficient for achieving a dynamic learning environment within higher education institutions. In Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice, Garcia offers a framework for transforming HSIs into truly Latinx-serving. The framework is grounded in critical theories, yet it advances new ways of thinking about how to organize colleges and universities that are actively serving students of color, low income students, and students from other minoritized backgrounds. This framework connects multiple important dimensions, including mission, identity, strategic purpose, membership, curriculum, student services, physical infrastructure, governance, leadership, external partnerships, and external influences. Drawing on over 25 years of HSI research, Garcia offers unique solutions for colleges and universities that want to better serve their students. With over 550 colleges and universities already eligible for the HSI designation, this book is a must-read for everyone in higher education.

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For information on ordering the book in bulk, contact Rachel Miller, Sales Manager, Johns Hopkins University Press, rmill157@jhu.edu ​ or 410.516.6951.

Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) are defined by the federal government as not-for-profit, degree granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% Latinx students. But beyond the federal definition, there is uncertainty about what it means to serve Latinx students, particularly as HSIs are enrollment driven institutions that lack an historical mission to serve Latinxs. While some argue that equitable graduation rates are evidence of effectively serving Latinxs, others say that HSIs must provide a culturally enhancing educational experience. Dr. Garcia contends that both are important and complicates this argument in the book. Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions is intended for higher education scholars and practitioners. It was published at an important time in history, as the number of colleges and universities eligible for HSI status increases every year, reaching 550 by fall 2020. Yet there is a need to understand the opportunities and challenges of becoming an HSI, which the book offers.

For information on ordering the book in bulk, contact Rachel Miller, Sales Manager, Johns Hopkins University Press, rmill157@jhu.edu or 410.516.6951.

Hispanic Serving Institutions in Practice: Defining "Servingness" at HSIs

As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), also grows. But as they increase in number, the question remains: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? This edited book fills an important gap in the literature. It features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining "servingness" in practice at HSIs. Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centers Latinx ways of knowing and being, with the goal of providing transformative experiences that lead to both academic and non-academic outcomes. In this book, practitioners who have implemented federally funded HSI grants, including those funded by Department of Education Title III and V grants, tell their stories of success in defining servingness. Specifically, they provide empirical and practical evidence of the results and outcomes of. This edited book is ideal for higher education practitioners and scholars searching for best practices for HSIs. It is essential as it provides a framework that simplifies the complex phenomenon known as servingness.

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Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities is the winner of the AAHHE Book of the Year Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Dr. Garcia's new book Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice will be available in January 2023.

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Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.

To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom-not merely reform-teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

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Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements.

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The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) was established in 1986 with a founding membership of eighteen institutions. Because of HACU's exemplary leadership on behalf of the nation's youngest and fastest-growing population, the Association rapidly grew in numbers and national impact.

Today, HACU represents more than 500 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, Spain and U.S. school districts. Although our member institutions in the U.S. represent only 17% of all higher education institutions nationwide, together they are home to two-thirds of all Hispanic college students. HACU is the only national educational association that represents Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

In 1992, HACU led the effort to convince Congress to formally recognize campuses with high Hispanic enrollment as federally designated HSIs and to begin targeting federal appropriations to those campuses. (Click here for more information about the differences between HACU's definition of HSIs and the federal definition of HSIs under Title V of the Higher Education Act.)

Soon after, HACU and its allies were instrumental in convincing Congress to appropriate money specifically for HSIs. For the first time ever, HSIs were granted $12 million in 1995 from federal resources. Since then, funding has increased significantly because of HACU's persistent advocacy. In 2020, for example, $143.08 million were appropriated for the HSI undergraduate program under Title V Part A of the Higher Education Act. HACU has recommended $170 million be appropriated for fiscal year 2021.

Our nation's economic and social success rests on the level of skills and knowledge attained by Hispanics, now the nation's largest minority population. Education is indisputably the key. HACU is committed to Hispanic success in education, from kindergarten through graduate school and into the workforce of tomorrow. Everyone has a stake in HACU's crucial goals: to promote the development of member colleges and universities; to improve access to and the quality of postsecondary educational opportunities for Hispanic students; and to meet the needs of business, industry and government through the development and sharing of resources, information and expertise.

With the help of HACU's Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C., HACU maintains more than 30 formal Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) and Partnership Agreements with federal agencies, offices, and business organizations. HACU also provides assistance and outreach to HSIs by hosting technical assistance workshops throughout the country on available federal program grants and other resources. The HACU National Internship Program also operates out of the Washington, DC, office and places more than 450 student interns each year with corporations and federal agencies in Washington and field offices around the country.

HACU's Western Regional Office in Sacramento, California, offers support for state level advocacy and program work in the western United States. Additional regional offices are being planned for the future.

HACU's Office of Policy Analysis and Information conducts policy analyses and research on issues affecting Hispanic higher educational success and HSIs. The Office of Student Services manages the Corporate Internship program, the Annual Conference Student Track, the HACU Scholarship program, and several capacity-building partnerships.

HACU's conferences and special events each year provide a vital platform for advocacy, information, collaboration, and recognition. These events include the National Capitol Forum on Hispanic Higher Education each spring in Washington, D.C., and HACU's Annual Conference. Student participation has been an important new dimension in recent years. HACU also hosts a biennial International Conference.

Thousands of young Hispanics benefit from HACU's internships, scholarships, college retention and advancement programs, pre-collegiate support, and career development opportunities and programs. We truly are the champions of Hispanic success in higher education.

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About HACU - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

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Home Members Conference PRAXIS (Events) Council Council Resources Marketing Request Form Community of Praxis Calendar of Events Past Events AHSIE 2024 Best Practices Conference AHSIE 2023 Best Practices Conference AHSIE Scholarships Benefits Become a Member AHSIE Member Login AHSIE Journal Member Martes Form Career Opportunities

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a chapter of the National Community College Hispanic Council

MISSION

COLEGAS is comprised of Latinx professionals who, through intentional advocacy and coalition building, lead and influence transformative systemic change within the California Community College system. We seek to foster and empower Latinx professionals through mentorship, networking, and professional development to ascend and assume leadership roles at the highest influential levels to eradicate systems of oppression to provide opportunities and close the equity gap for Latinx students in higher education.

VISION

To lead statewide and local efforts to ensure an equitable experience for Latinx students and professionals, so they can thrive and accomplish their academic and professional goals in the California Community College system.
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a chapter of the National Community College Hispanic Council Become a MEMEMBER OF COLEGAS TODAY! MISSION COLEGAS is comprised of Latinx professionals who, through intentional advocacy and coalition building, lead and influence transformative systemic change within the California Community College system. We seek to foster and empower Latinx professionals through mentorship, networking, and professional development...

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The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) is an agent of change for improving education, thus enabling Hispanic students to fully participate in a diverse society. AAHHE works collaboratively with all sectors of education, business, industry, as well as community and professi…

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Partnership with programs/alumni in creating a transfer-sending culture as an HSI

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Partnership with programs/alumni in creating a transfer-sending culture as an HSI

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Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and oth…

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How many Title V grants have been funded that are "student focused"?

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How many Title V grants have been funded that are "student focused"?