SSITA	Data Institute	Evidence-Based Practices Institute	Alignment Institute	Post-Completion Institute

Excelencia in Education’s mission is to accelerate Latino student success, while increasing all student success, to close postsecondary attainment gaps and advance our families, communities, and nation. We are committed to significantly increasing the number of students earning college degrees by 2030 in partnership with institutions.

To support and reinforce institutional capacity to more intentionally serve, Excelencia has created a capacity building strategy to meet institutions where they are in their transformation journey and help college and universities embed student-centered data-driven accountability cycles into their strategies and practices to build sustainable, campus-wide habits of continuous improvement.

Through a collaborative partnership, Excelencia engages institutions in tailored capacity building programming of in-depth content and rigorous tools for data-informed action resulting in systemic change across the institution. 

Excelencia’s capacity building programming offers institutions, as cohorts of peer institutions, the opportunity to examine their own data, practices, and leadership strategies to demonstrate measurable outcomes that resonate with funders, policymakers, and stakeholders, bridging internal growth with external proof of impact on Latino, and all, student success.

The learning and knowledge gained through Excelencia’s capacity building programming builds momentum and increases institutional capacity to transform into learning environments where Latino, and all, students thrive.

As a trusted and respected convener, Excelencia capacity building opportunities offer institutional teams of five members:

• Interactive sessions by subject matter specialists, policy makers, researchers, leaders in higher education, and Seal of Excelencia certified institutional representatives;

• Asset-based discussions on data, practice, leadership, and policy with a student-centered lens;

• Learning and networking environments with other institutions as cohorts to build communities of common cause and practice sharing experiences, strategies, practices, strengths, and opportunities;

• Dedicated time and space for teams to reflect, discuss, and develop tactical action plans for campus-wide implementation using Excelencia’s robust tools; and,

• Facilitated engagement with peer teams as a cohort of institutions for continued learning and sharing at 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up sessions after each institute.