The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday it is ending a grant program for Hispanic-Serving Institutions and several similar programs, a decision expected to sap funding from California colleges and universities that are eligible for extra federal dollars because they enroll high numbers of Latino students.
Campuses earn a Hispanic-Serving Institution designation by having an undergraduate student body that is at least 25% Latino. California has 167 such institutions, more than any other state, including five University of California campuses, 21 California State University campuses and most of the state’s community colleges. The designation allows those colleges to apply for the grants, which are competitive and not guaranteed to all HSIs**.** Together, California institutions have received more than $600 million in HSI grants since the program’s inception in 1995.
The leader of the 22-campus California State University system said the cuts would cause “irreparable harm” to campuses.
“… and several similar programs.”
indicates that it includes various minority-serving institutions (MSIs) other than HBCUs and TCCUs (note that colleges and universities with high Black or Native American populations that are not HBCUs or TCCUs are in categories that are affected).
https://sheeo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MSI-White-Paper.pdf describes the categories and numbers of such colleges and universities. Note that, in California, there are very few public colleges and universities that do not qualify (by student population numbers) as some sort of MSI (generally HSI or AANHPISI or both) – CPSLO, CSUMA, and a few community colleges in the rural northern part of the state are ones that do not qualify. But note that not all colleges and universities that qualify get MSI status, and that MSIs did not automatically get additional grants – it appears that most did not get additional grants.
Good Lord.
Of course they are.