Beyond Designation: Thinking Intentionally about Servingness in the CSU

Overview

Inspired by the passage of SB 1348 establishing the state designation of “Black Serving Institutions” (BSIs), this virtual convening will bring together CSU students, staff, including institutional researchers, administrators and faculty to discuss the concept of servingness within the context of BSIs, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Asian American, Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). 

During our morning session, we will engage with one another to consider how recent challenges to the availability of federal grant funding provide opportunities to rethink how we define, practice, measure, and sustain servingness–in ways that are meaningful to students. This session is designed for all who might engage in servingness, including faculty, program staff, researchers, and administrators.

Following lunch, the second half of the convening will dive deeply into how to operationalize and measure servingness. Most appropriate for practitioners in the CSU who work with or aim to work with data within their servingness efforts, this session will include opportunities for participants to actively engage with data. 

Registration opens soon!