Best practices: Hispanic serving institutions and the production of future Latino doctorates in science and engineering

This study expands research begun as a baccalaureate origins study of Latino (US citizens) who obtained their doctorates in science and engineering between 1993 and 1997. Data was disaggregated according to gender, Hispanic subgroup, and broad field of science. Institutions were ranked according to their rate of productivity in these categories, regardless of their size. Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) figured prominently in these rankings. Recruitment and retention strategies, as well as cultural characteristics, at eleven of the most productive HSIs have been studied in an effort to develop a research-based set of best practices in the production of future Latino doctorates in S&E at Hispanic Serving Institutions