UIC to lead new consortium of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
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The University of Illinois Chicago will lead a new consortium of 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs, that have R1 designation — top tier doctoral university with very high research activity — in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
The initial launch of the national initiative, which is called “Crossing Latinidades,” is supported by a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the department of Latin American and Latino studies and the Office of Diversity at UIC.
The project’s principal investigator, Amalia Pallares, associate chancellor and vice provost for diversity, says pooling the group’s strengths and creating collaborations that combine resources in innovative ways will be an important first step toward ensuring the growth and sustainability of Latino studies and further developing the field in new directions across the humanities.