Mission

The mission of the Institute is to secure public funding to increase educational achievement of Latinos in the United States: to improve the public’s understanding of the need to address Latino higher educational attainment: and to promote effective public policy for Latino higher education.  We work with our parent organization, the privately funded Hispanic Scholarship Fund, to double the rate of Hispanics earning their college degrees to 18 percent by 2010. The following are our mission and vision statements:

Mission
The Institute shares HSF’s vision to strengthen America by advancing the higher education of Hispanic Americans.

Vision
The Institute’s vision is to create awareness and understanding of the growing need and responsibility for the public sector to support the higher education of Latinos through scholarships, fellowships, grants and outreach.