(STEP: http://www.cwu.edu/step/ ) and the social sciences (YESS http://www.cwu.edu/yess/). Since the STEP program began in AY03-04, 20.8% of the 652 participants have been Hispanic students. The first YESS cohort will launch in Fall 2018. Challenges We identified the following challenges that would impede our ability to strengthen our current retention and programmatic efforts: • Program support for undocumented students: Latinx/first-generation serving programs, such as CAMP, TRiO, McNair, and SOLVERS are dependent upon the ability to secure renewed federal grant funding. Because these support programs are federally funded, undocumented students are not eligible to participate or benefit from the targeted support each program provides. • Lack of staff diversity: Currently, only 13% of CWU faculty and staff are diverse with respect to race/ethnicity, compared to the student body (34%), and only 5.6% of faculty and staff are Hispanic. More Latinx administrators, faculty, and staff need to be recruited. • Advising: More consistency is needed in both Exploratory/Professional and Faculty Advising. The current advising structure needs to be revisited, a process that is underway. • Campus service space: Currently there is no centralized location where Latinx students can receive support and services that are specifically related to their needs. • Bilingual information/communications: There are limited CWU communications to students and external stakeholders in Spanish. All communications concerning CWU processes should be offered in both English and Spanish (e.g. main phone line, admissions communication, orientation information, etc.). Campus tours in Spanish should be readily available throughout the year. • Staff training: Cross-cultural training for staff/faculty is needed to interact most effectively with Latinx students, DACA, undocumented, etc., to improve customer service and support in all areas. • Curriculum: Currently there is limited inclusion of varied cultural content within curriculum (e.g. General Education courses). For example, include texts by Latinx authors in literature or cultural-related courses and consider revisiting the curriculum for the Latino and Latin American Studies program.
CWU HSI Initiative 7.12.18
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