COMMUNITY OF PRAXIS

 

Welcome to the AHSIE Community of Praxis

Turning Knowledge into Practice. Practice into Progress.

Praxis is where what we know about serving students becomes how we better serve them. AHSIE’s Community of Praxis connects learning, reflection, and action through professional develpment that strengthnes how HSI educators and leaders serve students and their institutions. Through webinars, workshops, conversations, and shared resources, Praxis brings togethers research, practitioners knowledge, and promising practices that can be applied across institutional contexts.

What Praxis Looks Like LEARN → REFLECT → APPLY → SHARE

Learn: Engage with research, practitioner knowledge, emerging ideas, and promising practices relevant to HSI institutions.

Reflect: Consider what that knowledge means with your own students, programs, institutions, and context.

Apply: Turn learning and reflection into meaningful strategies, practices, programs and institutional action.

Share: Exchange experience, lessons, and practices that strengthen learning across the broader HSI community.

AHSIE Praxis turns knowledge into practice and practice into progess strengthening our collective capacity to better serve students and isntitutions.

UPCOMING COMMUNITY OF PRAXIS

Visit our events calendar to review current offerings and to register. We look forward to learning, and growing, together.

Utilizing HSI Title V/Title III Grant Funds for Professional Development

For more information about utilizing HSI Title V/Title III grant funds to cover professional development registration for AHSIE events, please review Part 200 - Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. For further guidance on CFR, contact your U.S. Department of Education Program Specialist.

§ 200.475 Travel costs.

(a) General. Travel costs are the expenses for transportation, lodging, subsistence, and related items incurred by employees who are in travel status on official business of the non-Federal entity. Such costs may be charged on an actual cost basis, on a per diem or mileage basis in lieu of actual costs incurred, or on a combination of the two, provided the method used is applied to an entire trip and not to selected days of the trip, and results in charges consistent with those normally allowed in like circumstances in the non-Federal entity's non-federally-funded activities and in accordance with non-Federal entity's written travel reimbursement policies. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 200.444, travel costs of officials covered by that section are allowable with the prior written approval of the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity when they are specifically related to the Federal award. 

(b) Lodging and subsistence. Costs incurred by employees and officers for travel, including costs of lodging, other subsistence, and incidental expenses, must be considered reasonable and otherwise allowable only to the extent such costs do not exceed charges normally allowed by the non-Federal entity in its regular operations as the result of the non-Federal entity's written travel policy. In addition, if these costs are charged directly to the Federal award documentation must justify that: 

(1) Participation of the individual is necessary to the Federal award; and 

(2) The costs are reasonable and consistent with non-Federal entity's established travel policy. 


§ 200.456 Participant support costs.

Participant support costs as defined in § 200.1 are allowable with the prior approval of the Federal awarding agency. 

Participant support costs means direct costs for items such as stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection with conferences, or training projects.

 

Pricing Structure

Learn about Our Types of Praxis Offerings

Throughout the year, HSI leaders are invited to participate in virtual workshops/webinars on various topics, including best practices, HSI eligibility, and more.

  • Register Here

    Learn Below:


    Featured Topic (HSI Half Day) Institutes

    AHSIE Institutes have been developed to provide fundamental and critical information for each topic area. The Institutes are available as an add-on purchase for all registered conference attendees. Prices for the institutes can be found here.

    Attendance is limited to 100 attendees per institute. Pre-registration is required. The costs above will be added on to your total registration fee when completing registration.

    Aspiring and Emerging HSI Institute

    This institute is designed for equity practitioners at one of the 393 emerging HSIs working to meet the federal criteria through increased enrollment, centering Latinx/a/o voices and identifying opportunities for investment. Attendees will engage in activities to identify areas of institutional need, infrastructure and capacity-building projects, increase and sustain enrollment of Latinx/a/o and low-income students, and strategic visioning for a concerted campus-wide plan. This institute will also be relevant to equity practitioners at the 569 designated HSIs looking to revamping their institutional transformation efforts.

    HSI Grant Implementation Institute (formally Project Management Institute (PMI)

    This institute is designed for novice HSI grant (Title V Part A: Developing HSI and Part B (PPOHA) and Title III Part F (HSI STEM & Articulation) grant implementers to gain intermediate understanding of project implementation. This interactive institute provides intermediate training, competency, and knowledge regarding new grant awards. Develop your HSI grant implementation skill set in the following areas:

    Project start-up;

    Project implementation;

    Evaluation and assessment;

    Budget, indirect costs and endowments;

    Regulations, internal controls, audits and site visits; and

    Performance reporting

    Throughout the institute, facilitators will share their own experiences and best practices for project management, navigating challenges, and support participants with planning, initiating, and executing the start-up of their projects.

    This institute is highly recommended for first-year grant implementers including Project Directors, Activity Leads, Coordinators, and aspiring grant leaders who want to foster, and support, sharing best practices and mentorship with colleagues new to their roles.

    Student Leadership Institute

    This institute is designed to empower students with a foundation of self-reflective professional and personal skills. The goal is to address cultural self-awareness and engagement within academic, leadership, and career settings. Topics include social cognitive problem solving, culture and resiliency in self-awareness as a leader: (1) identifying one’s engagement style preference, (2) understanding the culturally efficacious evolution model (CEEM) as a lifelong investment, and (3) the growth mindset adaptability with the identification of engagement opportunities for culturally efficacious academic, leadership, and career communications; extending professional preference to include other engagement styles

    40-Minute Breakout Sessions

    These oral presentations will focus on examples of best practices that have been proven to be effective at HSIs and primarily focus on one of the conference topics (Grant Development & Management, Servingness, Student Centered, STEM & Professional Development). The presentation format is a 30-minute oral presentation delivered through PowerPoint and a 10-minute question and answer period.

    60-Minute Interactive Breakout Sessions

    These sessions allow presenters to discuss their topic and best practices more in-depth and interactively. The workshops may serve to inform participants of high impact practices in collaborating institutions or departments while interactive sessions cover evidence-based high impact practices that have proven effective at HSIs. These interactive sessions will engage participants through activities, teamwork, and hands-on experience.

    5-Minute Lightning Talk Sessions

    The 5-minute Lightning Talk oral presentations are a fun and fast-paced opportunity for presenters to share new and creative ideas for fostering best practices in HSIs. Presentations are limited to 10 minutes and should have less than 20 slides, which automatically advance every 20 seconds.

  • Getting Started New Grant Assistance Workshop

    🗓 TBD

    🕛 TBD (PST)

    Facilitators: TBD

    • Description: This workshop is designed for novice HSI grant (Title V Part A (Developing HSI) and B (PPOHA) and Title III Part F (HSI STEM & Articulation) grant implementers to gain an introductory understanding of project start-up. This interactive workshop is an introduction to the upcoming HSI Grant Implementation Institute (formally Project Management Institute) occurring spring 2023. This workshop will focus on providing introductory training, competency, and addressing participant questions regarding new grant awards. Jumpstart your HSI grant implementation skillset and develop a network of support and resources to ensure a successful start to your project.

    This institute is highly recommended for first-year grant implementers, including Project Directors, Activity Leads, Coordinators, and aspiring grant leaders who want to foster, and support, sharing best practices and mentorship with colleagues new to their roles.

    HSI Grant Implementation Institute

    • Description: This institute is designed for novice HSI grant (Title V Part A: Developing

    • HSI and Part B (PPOHA) and Title III Part F (HSI STEM & Articulation) grant implementers to gain intermediate understanding of project implementation. This interactive institute provides intermediate training, competency, and knowledge regarding new grant awards. Develop your HSI grant implementation skill-set in the following areas:

      • Project start-up,

      • Project implementation,

      • Evaluation and assessment,

      • Budget, indirect costs and endowments,

      • Regulations, internal controls, audits and site visits, and

      • Performance reporting

    Throughout the institute, facilitators will share their own experiences and best practices for project management, navigating challenges, and support participants with planning, initiating, and executing the start-up of their projects.

    This institute is highly recommended for first-year grant implementers including Project Directors, Activity Leads, Coordinators, and aspiring grant leaders who want to foster, and support, sharing best practices and mentorship with colleagues new to their roles.

    HSI Grant Implementation Micro-Course should come back but instead of saying Project Management Micro-Course as it does below, it should say HSI Grant Implementation Micro-Course

  • HSI Eligibility Application & Waiver Form Webinar

    🗓 October 18, 2023

    🕛 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (PST)

    Facilitators: Dr. Marla Franco, Dr. Manuel Del Real, and Dr. Karla Cruze-Silva

    Learn the steps involved in applying for HSI eligibility and submitting the required waiver forms as needed.

    "Confirmation of HSI Eligibility" is a necessary document to upload whenever applying for Department of Education HSI Title III STEM and Title V grants.

    HSI Grant Writing Institute

    The Grantsmanship Institute is a hands-on, interactive, and dynamic experience designed to help HSI staff and faculty identify funding opportunities, plan and develop effective applications that meet institutional needs, and write strong competitive applications for U.S. Department of Education HSI grant programs.

    This institute is highly recommended for Project Directors, Grant Administrators, Grant Writers, and faculty.

    HSI Grant Writing Micro-Course

    The Grantsmanship Micro-Course builds upon information provided at the Grantsmanship Institute. Participants engage in high-level, high-detail interactions and activities. While the Grantsmanship Institute is intended to introduce and provide an overview of the U.S. Dept of Ed grant application process, the Micro-Course provides participants a hands-on, step-by-step, deeper dive into the process with highly experienced facilitators who have successfully written, obtained, and managed multi-million dollar awards. Grantsmanship Institute attendance is not required to attend the micro-course; however, highly recommended for novice grant applicants.

    The Grantsmanship micro-course is highly recommended for Project Directors, grant administrators, grant writers, and faculty. Previous grant writing experience and/or AHSIE Grantsmanship Institute attendance is highly recommended.

  • Name of workshop: Getting Started: New HSI Grant Awards Assistance

    Date: TBD

    Time: TBD

    Facilitators: TBD

    This workshop is designed for novice HSI grant (Title V Part A (Developing HSI) and B (PPOHA) and Title III Part F (HSI STEM & Articulation) grant implementers to gain an introductory understanding of project start-up.

    This interactive workshop is an introduction to the upcoming HSI Grant Implementation Institute (formally Project Management Institute) occurring in the spring of 2023. This workshop will focus on providing introductory training, competency and addressing participant questions regarding new grant awards. Jumpstart your HSI grant implementation skill-set and develop a network of support and resources to ensure a successful start to your project.

    This institute is highly recommended for first-year grant implementers, including Project Directors, Activity Leads, Coordinators, and aspiring grant leaders who want to foster, and support, sharing best practices and mentorship with colleagues new to their roles.

  • Join a supportive virtual writing community and learn how to prepare your ideas and stories of impact for publication in the AHSIE Journal.

    Included is:

    ➡️ A 4-hour virtual facilitated session

    ➡️ Pre- and post-institute writing consultations

    ➡️ Access to a writing resource toolkit

  • Through interactive and dynamic sessions, the AHSIE Data Institute highlights national socioeconomic trends directly impacting educational initiatives. Participants will review and engage in analyzing data sets. Equity practitioners at HSIs will share their process for developing evaluation plans and equity dashboards that capture multiple dimensions of servingness.

    The virtual AHSIE Data Institute will guide equity practitioners serving at (emerging) HSI’s through the use of mixed-method data to:

    1) Inform decision-making processes and practices.

    2) Leverage data to engage advocacy and initiate positive change on campus.

    3) Develop an assessment plan to collect, disaggregate, and share data.

    4) Identify and interpret institutional equity gaps.

    5) Design the evaluation of educational initiatives that aim to eliminate equity gaps.

    Topics include:

    * Equity-minded evaluation plans those challenge deficit models

    * Sharing key performance indicators with staff and faculty in real-time

    * Equity data implications for policy

    This institute is highly recommended for diverse campus-wide stakeholders who want to increase their ability to use actionable data for institutional transformation.

    Previous Offerings:

    Equity Data Institute 2022

    🗓 October 25 & 26, 2022

    🕛 9:00 AM-1:00 PM (PST)

    Facilitators: Yolanda Cataño, Elizabeth Gonzalez, David Ortiz, Antonio Duran, and Susana Hernandez