Session Types

 

Featured Topic (HSI Half Day) Institutes - Held on Sunday, March 17, 20244

AHSIE Institutes have been developed to provide fundamental and critical information in each topic area. The Institutes are available as an add-on purchase for all registered conference attendees.

Attendance is limited to 60 attendees per Institute. Pre-registration is required. The costs of the Institute will be added to your total registration fee when completing registration.

Aspiring and Emerging HSI Institute

This institute is designed for equity practitioners at one of the 401 emerging HSIs working to meet the federal criteria through increased enrollment, centering Latinx/a/o voices and identifying opportunities for investment. Attendees will engage in activities to identify areas of institutional need, infrastructure and capacity-building projects, increase and sustain enrollment of Latinx/a/o and low-income students, and strategic visioning for a concerted campus-wide plan. This institute will also be relevant to equity practitioners at the 569 designated HSIs looking to revamping their institutional transformation efforts.

HSI Grant Implementation Institute (formally Project Management Institute (PMI)

This institute is designed for novice HSI grant (Title V Part A: Developing HSI and Part B (PPOHA) and Title III Part F (HSI STEM & Articulation) grant implementers to gain intermediate understanding of project implementation. This interactive institute provides intermediate training, competency, and knowledge regarding new grant awards. Develop your HSI grant implementation skill set in the following areas:

  • Project start-up;

  • Project implementation;

  • Evaluation and assessment;

  • Budget, indirect costs and endowments;

  • Regulations, internal controls, audits and site visits; and 

  • Performance reporting

Throughout the institute, facilitators will share their own experiences and best practices for project management, navigating challenges, and support participants with planning, initiating, and executing the start-up of their projects.

This institute is highly recommended for first-year grant implementers including Project Directors, Activity Leads, Coordinators, and aspiring grant leaders who want to foster, and support, sharing best practices and mentorship with colleagues new to their roles.

Student Leadership Institute

This institute is designed to empower students with a foundation of self-reflective professional and personal skills. The goal is to address cultural self-awareness and engagement within academic, leadership, and career settings. Topics include social cognitive problem solving, culture and resiliency in self-awareness as a leader: (1) identifying one’s engagement style preference, (2) understanding the culturally efficacious evolution model (CEEM) as a lifelong investment, and (3) the growth mindset adaptability with the identification of engagement opportunities for culturally efficacious academic, leadership, and career communications; extending professional preference to include other engagement styles.

40-Minute Breakout Sessions

These in-person breakout sessions focus on examples of best practices that have been proven to be effective at HSIs and primarily focus on one of the conference topics (Grant Development & Management, Servingness – Academic, Servingness – Liberatory, STEMM, Professional Development, and By Students, for Students). The presentation format is a 30-minute oral presentation delivered through PowerPoint and a 10-minute question and answer period.

60-Minute Interactive Breakout Sessions

These in-person breakout sessions allow presenters to discuss their topic and best practices more in-depth and interactively. The workshops may serve to inform participants of high impact practices in collaborating institutions or departments while interactive sessions cover evidence-based high impact practices that have proven effective at HSIs. These interactive sessions engage participants through activities, teamwork, and hands-on experiences.

5-Minute Lightning Talk Sessions

The 5-minute Lightning Talk oral presentations are a fun and fast-paced opportunity for presenters to share new and creative ideas for fostering best practices in HSIs. Presentations are limited to 10 minutes and should have less than 20 slides, which automatically advance every 20 seconds.