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 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
     
OVERVIEW
Modality Virtual
Dates/Times
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm ET

  • Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm ET

  • Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm ET

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.


This registration fee will need to be paid prior to attending the institute.


Testimonios

"It was helpful to see concrete examples of alignment from Seal certified institutions and understand how aligning our campus narrative to the campus data is a critical part of our story."

– Martin Castillo, CSU East Bay, Seal Certified Institution