Project Vista
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Vista, a far-reaching mental view: vistas del futuro
Hispanic students are severely underrepresented in institutions of higher education at the undergraduate, master, and doctoral degree levels, evidencing an opportunity and equity gap in America's education pipeline. Project VISTA exists because of this reality. Its purpose is to positively impact this reality at CI.
Project VISTA is:
- designed to strengthen CI’s graduate culture and enhance the capacity of its postbaccalaureate programs to better serve, retain, and graduate Hispanic and low-income students;
- a federal grant award of $2.8 million ($564,899 per year, 2010-2015). The Project is funded by Title V of the United States Department of Education under the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) program;
- one of two Title V grant awards received by CI in 2010. The other, Project ISLAS, is designed to support Hispanic and low-income student success in undergraduate programs. CI is one of three 4-year colleges in California and one of six in the United States that was successful in winning both of the Department of Education's Title V grant awards for Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) in 2010.