Moving Towards Serving teams program

For teams of HSI practitioners (staff, faculty, admin and students)

A team retreat for HSI and eHSI workgroups who want to build capacity for institutional servingness, and learn how to work together more equitably.

Registration Fee

$40,000 per HSI Team (15-30 participants).

New in 2025! This program is available on-demand, at your campus.

You can now request this program and we will come to you. Fee includes the facilitator team time and travel as well as all materials needed for retreat, including the pre-retreat activities, and coaching follow-up. Your institution will need to provide the room and food for the retreat days.

Get started by filling out an MTS Interest form!

Components of the MTS Program

IN-PERSON RETREAT

The program launches with an in-person retreat where team members learn and discuss how to become more intentional agents of change, utilize Latinx-centered communication models, and recognize and disrupt the de-centering of Latinx students.

FOLLOW-UP ZOOM SESSION

ESCALA facilitators will hold a follow-up 'coaching' session with your teams via Zoom. In this session, we will check in and provide support on the plan your team developed at retreat, and continue to model equity in the work.

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING!

After retreat, teams will gather again on Zoom to present a summary of their learning in the program, and where they are headed. We ask your team to demonstrate their commitment to actions and activities that will move the campus towards serving Latinx students.

course OUTCOMES

This program is designed for teams of Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) practitioners who are working collectively on campus-wide efforts to improve Latinx student experiences and academic outcomes. The program brings awareness to the hidden ways that White Institutional Presence in HSIs continues to uphold inequities for Latinx students.

While participating in the program, teams of practitioners will explore ways to disrupt the status quo at their institutions to better serve Latinx students and improve their academic outcomes.

As a result of the program, teams will be better equipped to:

Diversify and equitize HSI work to feature voices that have been silenced, broaden participation in HSI efforts, and reduce ‘siloing’ of HSI initiatives.
Analyze meeting spaces, institutional policies and current practices for White Institutional Presence (WIP), and disrupt these to implement practices that better serve the Latinx community.
Facilitate conversations with campus community members about the social-historical and racialized context of their HSI and the importance of centering Latinx student experiences.

retreat Learning Goals

During the MTS retreat participants will:

Experience models for ‘holding space’ to facilitate discussions about race, power and privilege in HSIs.
Become aware of the team’s current intercultural competence and how to progress collectively.
Understand the importance of including the missing narratives and histories of Latinx people in HSI work.
Analyze institutional data with a critical, Latinx-centered lens.