The HACU Leadership Fellows are researchers, executives and educators representing a wide range of expertise from higher education institutions in California, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico and Texas.
They are one of three teams of Leadership Fellows named as part of the Kellogg Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Leadership Fellows Program, funded through the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education with a four-year, $6 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The Alliance, created as the nation’s first unified voice for all minority higher education concerns, was founded by HACU representing Hispanic-Serving Institutions, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) representing Tribal Colleges and Universities, and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) representing the country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
HACU
Leadership Fellows will join the AIHEC Leadership Fellows Program and the NAFEO
Kellogg Leadership Fellows Program as part of the project to identify and mentor
the next generation of presidents and senior executives at America’s Minority-Serving
Institutions.
The project is directly addressing the need to end the continuing under-representation of minority senior-level administrators at minority serving colleges and universities. Organizers predict that by the end of this decade, at least half the participants in the Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows Program will be serving as a president or other high-ranking leader at a minority-serving college or university.
“HACU Leadership Fellows represent a distinguished group
of extraordinary leaders in research, teaching, administration and community
outreach from the Hispanic higher education community. Their expertise and vision
will contribute to a new, more diverse era of leadership for those colleges
and universities serving the largest concentrations of minority higher education
students,” said HACU President and CEO Antonio R. Flores.
HACU represents more than 300 colleges and universities serving the largest
concentrations of Hispanic higher education students. NAFEO represents 118 Historically
Black Colleges and Universities and other institutions. The American Indian
Higher Education Consortium represents 32 Tribal Colleges and Universities.
The HACU Leadership Fellows are:
| • | Janice Chavez, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, California State University, Bakersfield |
| • | Benjamin Cuellar, Dean, College of Health and Human Services, California State University, Fresno |
| • | Beatriz Espinoza, District Director of Community Development, Dallas County Community College District, Texas |
| • | David Leon, Director of the Serna Center, Chicano Studies, Professor, Vice Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, California State University, Sacramento |
| • | Santos Martinez Jr., Vice President for Student Services, Coastal Bend College, Texas |
| • | Tomas Morales, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Student Affairs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| • | Lourdes Oroza, Dean of Academic Affairs, Wolfson Campus, Miami Dade College, Florida |
| • Sandra Pacheco, Vice President for Student Affairs, St. Edward’s University, Texas | |
| • Santos Rivera, Special Assistant to the President, Northeastern Illinois University | |
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Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, Vice President for Student Affairs, University of New Mexico |
For more information, contact HACU Public Affairs
Director Daniel Casillas at HACU national headquarters in San Antonio, Texas,
at (210) 692-3805. Ext. 3249, or by email at dcasillas@hacu.net.
Or visit www.hacu.net.