In this episode we transform the ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? microphone into a brown table talk with one of our favorite HSI leaders Dra. Cynthia Olivo, who is the 10th president of Fullerton College. Dra. Olivo’s career spans nearly three decades, serving in many roles including Assistant Superintendent and Vice President of Student Services at Pasadena City College and Associate Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment at California State University, San Bernardino. In this plática we learn about how she has served as a champion for equity and academic excellence for students, how she has worked towards organizational change, poco a poco, with minor tweaks, and how culture, ceremony, and celebration are core tenets of her leadership. She also shares best practices for coalition building across racial-ethnic groups as informed by an organization she co-founded, The Coalition. Throughout our plática Dra. Olivo shares her personal history as the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, the daughter of a single mother, a first-generation college student, and a third-generation Chicana who went from EOP student to college president.
Guest: Cynthia Olivo (She, Her, Ella), Presidenta, Fullerton College
Social Media: @drcynthiaolivo
APA Citation:
Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, April 7). Brown Table Talk with President Olivo. (No.406) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/306
Attachments / Show notes:
Enacting Servingness in the Northeast
Poderosa Leading a Hispanic Serving Community College (HSCC)
Student Perspectives on Servingness
HSI Consciousness in the Borderlands
Learning from a Veterano: Title V Grant Directorship & Success
Enacting STEM Servingness
Learning with ESCALA Educational Services
Campus Climate & Liberatory Outcomes at HSIs
Engaging with the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE)
Racial Conflict & Complications of Latinidad in HSIs
Using Strategic Planning to Drive Servingness
Leading and Enacting Servingness con Cariño
Queering HSIs and Serving LGBTQIA+ Latinx Students
Using Research to Inform Servingness in Practice
Elevating Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges
Serving Indigenous Latinx Students at HSIs
Becoming an HSI as Process
State Policies & Servingness
HSI Grant Directorship & Implementation
Federal HSI Policies & Servingness
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