From Serving to Thriving (Our Journey to Becoming a Student-Thriving Institution)

From Serving to Thriving: Our Journey to Becoming a Student-Thriving Institution outlines the Hispanic-Serving institution’s strategic serving-to-thriving plan and pathways implemented to create Student Thriving environments and support Latina/o/x student success. Each chapter provides information, lessons learned, and key takeaways or action steps others can apply in their setting. The developed Thrive framework includes ecological considerations, key responsible stakeholders in decision making roles, actions-in-activity, and student voices in defining what thriving means on a HSI campus.

This book provides a context for where to begin; providing a demographic presentation of the authors, their students, and what they have in place. Data is presented to illustrate graduation trends and historical progress, acknowledging that despite progress, there are still equity gaps to address. The authors place emphasis on student thriving as a pathway to become Hispanic thriving.

This text also provides implemented strategies and lessons learned so that others can find advantage from the author experience as they take a deeper look to who they are as they address the HSI integrated space from serving to thriving within a social community that is designed for success and leadership.