Liberatory Outcomes in HSIs

We kick off season 6 of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? with a conversation about advocacy for Latine college students and HSIs. We learn with Dr. Patrick Velasquez, a Chicano educator who serves as Co-Chair of the San Diego Chicano/Latino Concilio on Higher Education and works directly with HSIs in the San Diego region. Patrick is a huge advocate for liberatory outcomes in HSIs and successfully advocated for the addition of an undergraduate, liberatory Institutional Learning Outcome that emphasizes anti-racism and social justice for San Diego State University students. In this episode we talk about the process of ensuring that the campus will commit to liberation as an outcome. We also discuss liberatory education as an essential concept for HSIs, calling attention to the decades of research on diversity, social justice, culture, power, and liberatory pedagogies. 

Attachments / Show notes: 

• https://sdclchighered.org/
• https://sdclchighered.org/position-papers
• Velásquez, P. M. (2024). Cuba’s potential contribution to the success of Chicano students in the U.S.: Directions to decolonize the Raza community. Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal 1, 1. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/rxsj/vol1/iss1/9 
• https://www.higheredjobs.com/blog/postDisplay.cfm?post=2256&blog=28
• https://studentexperiencenetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SERN_Garcia_042122.pdf
• Garcia, G. A. (2021). A love letter to HSI grant seekers/implementers and the federal agencies that fund them: Defining servingness in research, practice, & policy. Journal of the Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institution Educators, 1(1), 1-14​.

APA Citation: 

Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2025, January 26). Liberatory Outcomes in HSIs. (No.601) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/