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California State University, Chico

HSI Research Collaboration Conference

Announced on: Wednesday, July 30, 2025

You are invited to an HSI Research Collaboration Conference focused on student success, multi-campus collaborations, and the research enterprise among west coast HSIs and emerging HSIs. Please spread the word to your campus colleagues involved in student success, research, and extramural funding initiatives.

Cultivating Comunidad: Strengthening Ties Through Research, Innovation, and Funding

September 3-4, 2025

J. W. Marriott Hotel

Anaheim, CA


Cultivating Comunidad is a 2-day convening for HSIs from the US west coast to identify synergies and forge research partnerships and collaborations across our landscape of public and private, 2- and 4-year institutions. All HSIs and emerging HSIs from California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska are welcome!


Join colleagues to:

  • Collectively define how we SERVE students, faculty, our local communities, and the nation's workforce through the research enterprise.
  • Learn about funding opportunities from federal and private agency program directors
  • Share best practices for undergraduate research, industry partnerships, and inclusive collaboration at HSIs
  • Meet potential collaborators in your region


To see featured presenters, visit https://credits.ucsb.edu/rcc/


Registration is $125 per person and includes access to all presentations; an evening reception on 9/2; and breakfast and lunch on 9/3 and 9/4. Thanks to the generous support of our conference sponsors, limited registration scholarships are available for individuals from under-resourced institutions.


TO REGISTER, visit https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=836636&


The HSI Research Collaboration Conference is hosted by a committee from the University of California Santa Barbara, California State University Northridge, Contra Costa Community College District, and San Diego State University.


For more information, contact: Anissa Stewart, (805) 893-4434, anissa.stewart@ucsb.


Posted by Teresita Curiel, Director, Latinx Equity and Success, CSU Chico: tcuriel@csuchico.edu.