MinerAlert
MinerAlert
Our success as a Hispanic-serving institution brings with it the responsibility of leadership. That responsibility includes, but is not limited to, the upper tiers of University administration. Indeed, participation in state, regional, and national discussions on achieving excellence in higher education for Hispanics and underserved students is a development opportunity for exceptional UTEP faculty and staff and an obligation of service.
We will be active participants and provide state, regional and national leadership in higher education and professional organizations including Excelencia in Education, the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities, the American Council on Education, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, the National Science Foundation, the National Academies and others.
We will broaden pathways for Hispanic administrators, Hispanic faculty, and administrators who aspire to work in Hispanic-serving institutions. UTEP is recognized as one of the leading producers of Hispanic graduates, and a top institution of origin for Hispanic doctoral graduates. Through initiatives like the HispanicServing Task Force, we will develop senior administrators who will lead Hispanic-serving institutions and help shape higher education policy. We will leverage our place and build on the unique diversity of our people to immerse future leaders in the culture, academic programs, and support services associated with mature Hispanic-serving institutions.
Through our leadership in the field of Hispanic higher educaiton, we will actively participate in shaping the best criteria for evaluating excellence for Hispanic-serving insititutions. We will support the evaluation of ourselves and others according to these criteria for excellence and transparently report the results. In particular, UTEP will continue to advocate for universities to measure excellence not by whom they exclude, but by whom they include and their success.
We will engage in policy discussions at state and national levels to advance the role of public institutions as engines of social mobility. Financial aid and state support for public higher education are two major policy levers that influence access and outcomes for economically disadvantaged students. UTEP will collaborate with stakeholders to shape policies that provide broad access, control the cost paid and debt assumed by families for education, and promote success for all students.
We will lead collaboration with other institutions to expand opportunities for attainment of graduate and doctoral degrees. UTEP has created pathways that facilitate the attainment of graduate and professional degrees for Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students, but there is much more to do. Independently and in partnership with likeminded institutions, UTEP will increase and expand these pathways across the nation with the intent to inspire more minority students to pursue advanced degrees and seek necessary support for their success.