We are a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)

HSIs are institutions of higher education that have enrollments of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that are at least 25% Hispanic.

Learn more about the HSI designation here

https://www2.ed.gov/programs/hsi/definition

What is Title V?

Title V is a 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program exists to provide resources of an educational nature in the form of grants that enhance learning opportunities in higher education for Hispanic students. Through Title V, the U.S. Department of Education offers five-year grants to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to enhance their academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability.

Alignment with WNMU

Mission

An open-access institution and New Mexico’s Applied Liberal Arts and Sciences University, Western New Mexico University combines a foundation of liberal arts education with quality professional programs and career and technical preparation in a diverse, inclusive, creative, and caring community of learners empowered with the essential skills and knowledge for lifelong success in work and life.

Ser una institución de acceso abierto y la Universidad de Artes Liberales y Ciencias Aplicadas de Nuevo México, Western New Mexico University combina una base de educación en artes liberales con programas profesionales de calidad y preparación técnica en una comunidad diversa, inclusiva, creativa y solidaria de estudiantes capacitados con habilidades y conocimientos esenciales para el éxito permanente en La vida y el trabajo.

Vision

Western New Mexico University is a premier and innovative Applied Liberal Arts and Sciences University in combination with internationally recognized professional programs and career and technical preparation. Its students achieve career goals, become conscientious citizens, practice social and environmental responsibility, and impact their communities and their futures as independent thinkers who know themselves within the changing context of a global, digital world. Embracing its identity as a Hispanic Serving Institution, WNMU is the central contributor in its region for public service, economic development, and cultural enrichment.

Western New Mexico University es una Universidad de Artes Liberales y Ciencias Aplicadas superior e innovadora en combinación con programas profesionales reconocidos internacionalmente y preparación profesional técnica. Sus estudiantes alcanzan metas profesionales, formándolos en ciudadanos comprometidos, que practican la responsabilidad social y ambiental, que tienen impacto en sus comunidades y en su futuro como pensadores críticos independientes que se conocen a sí mismos dentro del contexto cambiante de un mundo global y digital. Adoptando su identidad como una institución de servicio a hispanos, WNMU es el contribuyente central en su región para el servicio público, el desarrollo económico y el enriquecimiento cultural.

WNMU’s Mission and Vision

https://administration.wnmu.edu/mission/

Our Con Ganas Project

WNMU was awarded a $2.92 million five-year  competitive grant in September 2022, which ends in 2027. This is among the largest competitive federal  grants WNMU has ever been awarded.

The Western New Mexico University (WNMU) Title V project, Con Ganas, focuses on improving how  qualifying universities with at least 25% or more Hispanic enrollments can improve how they serve their students  through systemic, institutionalized changes that increase the capacity of the HSI to better serve its Hispanic students. WNMU has approximately 50% Hispanic student enrollments.

Specifically our Title V grant award, Con Ganas, focuses on targeted efforts to make WNMU’s curriculum more responsive and relevant, and supported, for our Hispanic / Latinx / Latina / Latino learners who make up about half of our student population.

Our Framework

Our Goals

Con Ganas focuses on critical areas of our core competencies in teaching and learning:

• Making the curriculum more relevant & responsive to our Hispanic learners
• Strengthening support for our Hispanic learners.
• Measuring project outcomes for a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement
• Improving outreach and opportunities addressing financial literacy(financial self-efficacy)
• Offering our learners opportunities for digital and traditional storytelling

* The contents of these web pages were developed under a grant from the Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.