Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) co-organized and co-chaired a workshop for the Virtual Summit of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) on May 15, 2023. The session, titled The HSRU Potential for Increasing the Impact of Undergraduate Research on Hispanic Students’ Readiness for Success in Graduate School, was one of the breakout sessions. 

The session aimed at initiating meaningful conversations about the role of the HSRU Alliance in advancing Hispanic students’ equitable transition from undergraduate to graduate degrees for successful career development. Some of the specific questions probed included:

• How can we close the gap between Hispanic representation in undergraduate and graduate programs in the Alliance? Are there existing conspicuous successful pipelines?
• What are the best undergraduate research practices that can be replicated to mitigate the underrepresentation of Hispanic students in graduate programs?
• What are, if any, some of the key standardized and repeatable metrics we would want to use to regularly measure the efficacy of an HSRU’s approach to undergraduate research to increase Hispanic student success in undergraduate to graduate school transition?