NACE’s Minority Serving Institutions Showcase: Recruiting Latino Students

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
Competency: Working with diverse populations
Fee: FREE (member); $149 (nonmember);

Summary
Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are higher education institutions that serve minority populations. Among them are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Asian American and Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AAPISIs). Because MSI’s are ripe with high quality diverse talent, recruitment professionals include MSIs in their engagement strategies more and more to advance company diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. In doing so, they have discovered MSIs vary in mission, location, student body profile, and more.

NACE’s 2024 MSI Showcase seeks to better understand HSIs and recruiting Latino students from any school. For employers and colleges interested in better understanding how to recruit and serve a high-quality diverse workforce, this event will provide the opportunity to:
- Learn what HSIs are and how they are different from other institutions
- Learn the diversity among students within HSIs and their various backgrounds
- Learn talent engagement strategies to apply broadly for Latino student
- Grow your network to include professionals that will help you accomplish your goals
Discovering Talent at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)

HSIs have significant volumes of Hispanic and Latino students – at least 25% of the student body.  Many HSIs partner with the US Department of Education’s (DOE) HSI Division in ways that enhance student experiences and support efforts to connect them with employers.  During this event, the DOE HSI Division and DOE Title III and Title V grantees will highlight how they work together and how HSIs are gems for top talent.

Partnerships at Work: Latino Student Career Outcomes

Recruiting Latino students relies on networks and partnerships between key stakeholders to achieve career outcomes. To better understand how, Higher Education professionals and Industry professionals will come together to take you into their partnerships. You will hear about their Latino student initiatives and why they are successful.
Presenters

Paula Diaz Luengo, Data Analyst – Data Subscriptions, Chevron Corporation
Paula Diaz Luengo is a Latina IT professional with six years of experience, and she currently works for Chevron as a data analyst. She obtained a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Houston in 2019. At Chevron, she also serves as a senior IT recruiter for various diversity conferences and HSIs, and she is part of Chevron’s Latino and Hispanic Employee Network’s global leadership team as the Chevron Hispanic Recruiting Team Director Deputy. She is passionate about promoting STEM and helping others reach their fullest potential.

Juan Ocampo PhD, Engineering Department Chair, St. Mary's University
Juan Ocampo, born in Medellin, Colombia, is a distinguished researcher, mentor, and educator dedicated to enhancing diversity in STEM fields while advancing structural reliability research for aerospace safety. With a global recognition, Dr. Ocampo has secured approximately $3.5M in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants for aircraft safety projects and collaborated on the digital twin initiative with Northrop Grumman Corporation and USAF. He plays a vital role in CONNECT, funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration, fostering STEM partnerships with minority-serving institutions. Recently awarded an NSF grant, Dr. Ocampo aims to boost Latinx representation in STEM by improving undergraduate education. His endeavors have garnered $1.7M in funding from FAA, USAF, NNSA, and NSF at St. Mary’s University, exposing minority students to research opportunities. A prominent figure in aircraft reliability circles, Ocampo has conducted 9 international training sessions and authored 42 papers and 3 FAA reports on aerospace structural reliability. He has presented at prestigious conferences worldwide, including the International Conference on Aeronautical Fatigue and NATO Digital Twin symposium. Ocampo’s accolades include a national FAA award for Aviation Research and research stints at institutions like the National Research Council of Canada and Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.

Stacey Slijepcevic PhD, Director, U.S. Department of Education

Glorimar Santini, Institutional Director of Entrepreneurship, EDP University of Puerto Rico, Inc.

Rene Pietri, Graduate Center Coordinator, EDP University of Puerto Rico, Inc.

Christos Valiotis, Dean of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Antelope Valley College

Lydia Iyeczohua Zendejas, Project Director, HSI Grants, University of California - Santa Cruz