Servingness as Strategy: Transforming Student Success Across the CSU

Announced on: Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Join the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and CSU colleagues for the following HACU-member webinar.

Servingness as Strategy: Transforming Student Success Across the California State University System (webinar)

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

12-1 PM Pacific Time

To register, click here.

This webinar explores how the California State University system is integrating the Servingness model into its new system-wide Student Success Framework to redefine how institutions support and measure student success. Presenters from across CSU campuses will discuss servingness as a unifying strategy connecting Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), Black Student Success, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) initiatives, offering practical approaches for sustaining equity-centered student success in today's higher education landscape.

The session will be presented by

• Beya Makekau, Ed.D., associate vice president for culture and institutional excellence and senior diversity officer at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;
• Cecil Chik, Ed.D., associate vice president for culture and institutional excellence/ senior diversity officer at California State University, Fullerton;
• Kathleen Wong Lau, Ph.D., chief diversity officer at San José State University; and
• Aswad Allen, Ph.D., chief diversity officer at California State University San Marcos

This webinar is being offered as part of the HACU-member webinar series. Chico State is a HACU-member institution.