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Every year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) are honored and celebrated across the country during HSI Week, a week-long celebration of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and their contributions to their communities. MPC has several events planned to raise awareness of the role HSIs play in improving access to education and advancing equity for traditionally underserved students. Please join us for these events on campus and off.

HSI Week often coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month. This year, HSI Week will be observed from September 9–15, before National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated from September 15–October 15.

Campus Events During HSI Week

Tuesday (Sep 10) All Day: Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together
MPC Library (2nd & 3rd floors)
Check out our library display of pioneers on MPC’s campus and related books that celebrate experiences of Hispanic and Latina/o/x groups.

Thursday (Sep 12) 8am-11:30am: Conchas & STEM
Caroline Page Garden in front of the Library
Join the HSI STEM office and STEM faculty for Conchas & STEM. We’ll provide conchas and hot chocolate as we showcase STEM activities.

Friday (Sep 13) 12pm-1pm - MPC Community Platicas
Sam Karas Room in the Library & Technology Center (LTC)
Learn about the programs that MPC has developed as an HSI intitution and details of the three grants that fund these efforts: Ready, Set, Transfer (RST); Engage, Promote, Connect (EPC); HSI E=MC2 (HSI-STEM)

Off Campus Events During HSI Week

Thursday (Sep 12) 12:30pm-1:30pm - "Chicana Activitsm and Reproductive Justice in the Borderlands" - Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo
MIIS Irvine Auditorium and on Zoom
(Register online: (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaqBG2of17Oc9VO-MP6hMW7S4ZP5bdGomaezafWTGx6PskAw/viewform)

Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an assistant professor in Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies and History at the University of Iowa. She received her doctorate in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. Her research interests include borderlands, women's health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements.

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*HSIs are defined as public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education that have at least 25% of their full-time undergraduate students identify as Hispanic or Latino. The U.S. Department of Education grants the "Hispanic-serving Institution" designation to universities that meet this requirement.