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Beyond Designation: Thinking Intentionally about Servingness in the CSU

Announced on: Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2025

Inspired by the passage of SB 1348 establishing the state designation of "Black Serving Institutions" (BSIs), the CSU Student Success Network invite you to register for "Beyond Designation: Thinking Intentionally about Servingness in the CSU." This free virtual convening will bring together CSU students, staff, including institutional researchers, administrators and faculty to discuss the concept of servingness within the context of BSIs, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Asian American, Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs).


Beyond Designation: Thinking Intentionally about Servingness in the CSU

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

10:00 am to 2:30 pm

VIRTUAL

Register here.


Featured Guest Speakers:

  • Robert (BJ) Snowden, Ed.D., Executive Director of the Central Office for the Advancement of Black Student Success, California State University, Sacramento
  • Timothy P. Fong, Ph.D., Executive Director of the California State University Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (CSU ASAP), California State University, Sacramento
  • More speakers to be announced!


What to Expect:

  • During our morning session, we will engage with one another to consider how recent challenges to the availability of federal grant funding provide opportunities to rethink how we define, practice, measure, and sustain servingness–in ways that are meaningful to students. This session is designed for all who might engage in servingness, including faculty, program staff, researchers, and administrators.
  • Following lunch, the second half of the convening will dive deeply into how to operationalize and measure servingness. Most appropriate for practitioners in the CSU who work with or aim to work with data within their servingness efforts, this session will include opportunities for participants to actively engage with data.


Please note: space is limited to 200 attendees, and registration will close once capacity is reached. We encourage you to register early to secure your spot. This convening is intended for higher education professionals.


Requests for accommodations are due by Monday, October 20, 2025.