HSI Highlights
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AlumniUCF Alum Partners with Accenture to Create Fund Supporting HSI Initiatives
The Vamos Knights Fund supports scholarships, resources and opportunities for students, faculty and staff as part of UCF’s efforts as a Hispanic Serving Institution.
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NewsUCF Students Win $5,000 at Inaugural ‘HSI Battle of the Brains’ Competition
Eight UCF students earned a $5,000 scholarship with their award-winning plan to keep college students engaged in extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UCF College of Business students Armando Barrial, Tomas Daza, Maria Pacheco Naranjo, Karen Ortiz and UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science students Natalia Colmenares, Juan Pablo Gomez, Julia Da Silva and Paul Stuckey won the “Best Business Solution Scholarship,” presented by Dell, at the inaugural HSI Battle of the Brains competition Saturday, Oct. 17.
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NewsHispanic Serving Institutions: What to Know
THE GROWTH OF THE Hispanic population in the U.S. has boomed in recent decades, and Hispanics now make up the largest racial or ethnic minority in the country, per U.S. Census data. With that growth has come the emergence of Hispanic Serving Institutions.
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NewsUCF Hispanic Students to Get New Support in STEM Fields
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UCF a grant of more than $1.8 million through its Improving Undergraduate STEM Education HSI program to support the success of Latino and other underrepresented students pursuing a major within STEM fields.
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NewsMagazine Ranks UCF Among Top Institutions Serving Hispanic Students
UCF is ranked the No. 5 university in the nation for granting bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics and 22nd for master’s degrees, according to Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine, which released a list today of top-performing educational institutions.
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NewsU.S. Department of Education Designates UCF as a Hispanic Serving Institution
The university, which has a 27.5 percent Hispanic-student enrollment, can now compete for federal funding to improve the educational programs for Hispanic and low-income students.
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NewsUCF Interim President: University Headed for Diverse Faculty, Student Population
Since UCF became a Hispanic-Serving Institution in February, UCF interim president Thad Seymour said it gives the university some unique advantages as it moves forward.
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NewsPsychology Professors Receive MSI Grant
Almost $600,000 in new funding from the U.S. Department of Defense allows researchers studying human behavior to escape the limits of the laboratory.
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NewsMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Receives MSI Grant
The Department of Defense has awarded a $600,000 grant to Assistant Professor Kareem Ahmed through its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions Research and Education Program. The funding supports the acquisition of ultrafast advanced laser and camera equipment that will further his research on hypersonics.
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NewsUCF Named a Finalist for National Award Recognizing Service to Latino Students
The “Seal of Excelencia” certification recognizes colleges and universities that demonstrate significant strides in serving students through data, practice and leadership.
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NewsAs More Latinos go to College, Schools Vie to Become Hispanic-Serving Institutions
The University of Central Florida opened during the civil rights movement, and from the beginning school leaders made racial diversity a priority.
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NewsAs More Colleges are Becoming Hispanic-serving, Some are Playing Catch Up
The number of schools with the federal status doubled in the last decade and hundreds more are nearing the mark, spurring some to rethink how they serve Latino students.
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NewsUCF Among Top 100 Schools for Hispanics
As a Hispanic Serving Institution, UCF is dedicated to bolstering the success of its Latinx students.
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NewsUCF Now a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Here’s What That Means
The University of Central Florida reached a milestone that will help its Hispanic students in the future — it’s now designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
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NewsPotential Hispanic-Serving Federal Grant Brings Career Readiness, Inclusive HSI Culture to UCF
Student input was requested by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for a new federal grant proposal at the Student Government Senate meeting on Thursday.
UCF Named a Finalist for National Award Recognizing Service to Latino Students
The “Seal of Excelencia” certification recognizes colleges and universities that demonstrate significant strides in serving students through data, practice and leadership.