Graduate student researchers: David Gordon, Xafsa Ciise, Stephanie Tam Rosas, Christine Rosales, and Miguel Lopezzi

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) of higher education have a social justice mission to serve the students who attend the university. HSIs tend to have a plurality of students of color and first generation to college students. This research project examines how service-learning courses serve BIPOC and first-gen students, with an emphasis on Latinx students. The project also examines if service-learning courses can serve as a cultural bridge between the university and home communities, thus working against hegemonic structures of the university (e.g., whiteness, upper middle class assumptions of success).