Minority Serving Institutions
Overview:
Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) enroll over 5 million students and are critical in providing access and opportunities for traditionally underrepresented and low-income students. As part of the CASE Opportunity and Inclusion Center (OIC), it focuses on building advancement capacity, sustaining student access and creating opportunities for minority and first-generation and low-income students. This effort emerged out of a two-year planning process funded by the Kresge Foundation and guided by a volunteer task force.
The OIC supports seven types of minority-serving institutions:
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (ANNAPISIs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHs)
- Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
- Hispanic Serving institutions (HSIs)
- Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTIs)
- Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs)
- Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)
- MSI Community Colleges (MSICC)
Key Priorities
- Enhance the MSI community, which serves as a shared space for questions, information and best practices.
- Provide professional development and training opportunities for advancement professionals, including leadership and trustees.
- Offer access to CASE resources designed to increase awareness of resources available to advancement professionals.
- Build the advancement profession by introducing the advance profession as a viable career option to students
Original MSI Task Force included:
ELOISE ALEXIS, co-chair
Vice President of Development
LEAD Public Schools
JORGE ANCONA, co-chair
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni Engagement
University of California, Riverside
RITA PIN AHRENS
Executive Director
OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates
STEPHANIE BELL-ROSE
Senior Managing Director and Head
TIAA Institute
DAVID BENNETT
Vice President of Advancement and Alumni Relations
Howard University
SANDRA BOHAM
President
Salish Kootenai College
CHERYL CRAZY BULL
President & CEO
American Indian College Fund
AMY GOLDSTEIN
Assistant Vice President, Organizational Advancement
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
CASSANDRA GRIGGS
Director of Alumni Relations
Tennessee State University &
CASE District III Board member/HBCU Task Force
NOËL HARMON
President & Executive Director
Asia & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
NANCYJO HOUCK
Chief Marketing and Development Officer
American Indian College Fund
MAURICE JENKINS
Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer
United Negro College Fund
RESHUNDA MAHONE
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Virginia State University
HAROLD MARTIN
Chancellor
North Carolina A&T
ROBERT MARTIN
President
Institute of American Indian Arts
WILLIAM MOSES
Managing Director, Education
Kresge Foundation
CHARLIE NELMS
Higher Education Consultant
ANNE OLLAN
Senior Director
TIAA Institute
VITA PICKRUM
Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Delaware State University
LASHAWNE PRYOR
Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Delaware State University
DEBORAH SANTIAGO
COO & Vice President of Policy
Excelencia in Education