Register and save the date for our 4th Annual Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Student Success Summit on Sept. 27, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom (breakfast and lunch will be provided).
The Rebel community is invited to participate in a day dedicated to collaboration and the advancement of the university’s efforts as a leading MSI, HSI, and AANAPISI institution. We plan to spotlight Asian American, Native American Pacific Islander (AANAPISI) communities while we celebrate the date that congress established the official designation on Sept. 27, 2007.
The MSI Student Success Summit marks the culminating event of MSI Week and aims to increase awareness and knowledge of our campus community while addressing structural and cultural barriers that reduce equitable outcomes for our diverse students. This will be achieved through engaging speakers, hearing student voices and perspectives, insightful panels, and group discussions.
Keynote speaker
Hear from keynote speaker Robert Teranishi, professor of social science and comparative education and the inaugural Morgan and Helen Chu Endowed chair in Asian American studies in the School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. His research examines the causes and consequences of the stratification of college opportunities, with a particular interest on the impact of higher education practice and policy on the mobility of marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Teranishi’s research has been influential to federal, state, and institution policy related to college access and completion. He has testified before Congress on the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, the College Cost Reduction and Affordability Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. His research has been referenced in U.S. Supreme Court cases on school desegregation and affirmative action in college admissions. In 2011, he was appointed by Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission. In 2015, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a member of the National Board for the Institute for Education Sciences. He has also served as a strategic planning and restructuring consultant for the Ford Foundation.
