The Hispanic Service Institution (HSI) Task Force, at its Oct. 31 meeting, joined other key campus groups supporting President Stephen Jordan’s idea to offer graduate programs at the College.

A total of 55 recommendations on strategies, policies or programs Metro State should implement to achieve HSI status were submitted to the president in the February 2007 HSI Task Force Report. Sixteen of those were noted as priority. At the Oct. 31 meeting, the Task Force added the graduate programs idea, for a total of 17 priority recommendations.

The Board of Trustees voted at the Nov. 5 meeting to delay any action on Jordan’s graduate program proposal until the Dec. 3 meeting. For more information on that meeting, go to http://www.mscd.edu/~collcom/artman/publish/bot_twv6110508grad.shtml.

Next HSI Meeting
Urban Teacher Program Director Esther Rodriguez has secured Sarita Brown, president of Excelencia in Education, to speak at the next HSI meeting scheduled for Friday, Nov. 21 from 10 a.m.-noon in TIV 320 A/B.

Excelencia identifies, analyzes and disseminates information on effective higher education practices for Latinos. For more information on Brown, visit http://www.edexcelencia.org/about_us/bios/brown.asp.

Space is filling quickly, so please RSVP to Emily McKissick at emckissi@mscd.edu.