Announcing our Second Cohort of Hispanic Serving Institution Scholars on the Pathway to the Professoriate
Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 2018—The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) is proud to name the second cohort of HSI Pathways Fellows of our HSI Pathways to the Professoriate program.
HSI Pathways to the Professoriate is supported by a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Designed to increase the number of Hispanic faculty members working in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities, the program will provide 90 students over five years with the tools to acclimate in graduate school and remain successful on the path to the Ph.D. Each Fellow participates in an intensive summer program, presents their research at a cross-institutional conference and receives mentoring and support for applying to and enrolling in graduate school.
“We are proud to welcome a new group of scholars to the HSI Pathways community. These students are not only ‘taking the path less traveled’, but they are opening doors for students that aspire to be mentors in academe,” said Marybeth Gasman, the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education and Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions.
HSI Pathways to the Professoriate is coordinated by CMSI in partnership with three Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) — California State University, Northridge; Florida International University; and the University of Texas, El Paso — and five majority research institutions — New York University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University; and University of California, Davis. Throughout the five-year program, CMSI is also conducting assessments as to how selected students are navigating the HSI Pathways program and, once admitted, their graduate programs. CMSI aims to discover the challenges and impetuses along the pathway to the Ph.D.
2018 HSI Pathways Fellows
California State University, Northridge
- Paolo Aiello
- Sara Almalla
- Liam Espinoza-Zemlicka
- Lyrianne Gonzalez
- Vanessa Lopez
- Hannah Mangum
- Ricardo Perez
- Kenia Rodriguez
- Celia Velazquez
Florida International University
- Stephanie Butt
- Lynn Saniorah Edouard
- Ana Gomez
- Daga Nyang
- Rachael Orbeta
- David Ortiz
- Johanna Piard
- Jose Ramirez
- Barbara Sanchez
- Robert Vives
The University of Texas, El Paso
- Jessica Armendariz
- Lidia Carrillo
- Luis García González
- Gema Lopez
- Ashley Prat
- Gustavo Rodriguez
- Janette Rodriguez
- Karina Salcido
- Lauren Viramontes
- Priscilla JudsonWallace
About the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) brings together researchers and practitioners from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander Serving Institutions. CMSI’s goals include: elevating the educational contributions of MSIs; ensuring that they are a part of national conversations; bringing awareness to the vital role MSIs play in the nation’s economic development; increasing the rigorous scholarship of MSIs; connecting MSIs’ academic and administrative leadership to promote reform initiatives; and strengthening efforts to close educational achievement gaps among disadvantaged communities. The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions is part of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. For further information about CMSI, please visit www.gse.upenn.edu/cmsi.
About the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Founded in 1969, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies by supporting exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work. For more information, please visit https://mellon.org/.
