Alignment Institute
Institute Overview
Institute offers institutional teams a cohort-driven and interactive engagement to align institutional data, evidence-based practices, and leadership strategies that results in students’ educational success. Institute supports institutions that have previous high levels of engagement with Excelencia through self-assessments, leveraging of disaggregated data, and documenting impact of evidence-based practices on student success to more intentionally SERVE Latino, and all, students.
Pre-requisites: 1) Previously attended the Data Institute and/or Evidence-Based Practices Institute and 2) Previously completed an Excelencia self-assessment.
Learning Outcomes:
1) Learn different approaches, models, and tools to support the alignment of data, evidence-based practices, and leadership strategies across units and departments for continuous improvement;
2) Self-assess level of alignment across the institution to help move beyond isolated, disconnected programming towards systemic change;
3) Learn from Seal of Excelencia certified institutions about their experiences with aligning data, evidence-based practices, and leadership strategies in their journey toward institutional excellence.
Team Composition Guidance
Create a campus team of five representatives with reach and expertise that includes leadership from among the following areas:
- Academic affairs
- Student affairs/support services
- Institutional research/effectiveness/assessment
- HSI initiatives/Seal of Excelencia initiatives
- President/Provost's office
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| Modality | Virtual |
| Dates/Times |
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| Registration Deadline | September 9, 2026, 5:00pm ET |
Registration Fee |
$5,000 per team of five (5) for three (3) virtual modules (12 hours) plus three (3) follow-up sessions (6 hours) for a total of 18 hours of Excelencia capacity building.
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Testimonios
– Martin Castillo, CSU East Bay, Seal Certified Institution