This week, Cabrini welcomes more than 150 students from across the U.S., the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama for the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) Northeast Collegiate World Series.
This is Cabrini’s fifth consecutive year hosting the event which introduces students to core leadership concepts and inquiry-based thinking as a means to plan for college and beyond.
During their opening ceremony, Cabrini’s Acting Provost Mark Kiselica, PhD, greeted the next generation of Latino leaders in attendance.
"The Collegiate World Series and the Institute have the same values as Mother Cabrini, of looking for the potential in others and doing everything possible to make it happen," said Kiselica. "I imagine some of you have the same mixed feelings I had when I was preparing for college. The Collegiate World Series staff is going to help you with those mixed feelings and help you develop a plan for that journey."
"I look at you and I feel inspired. I feel so grateful for the Institute, the Collegiate World Series, and for our relationship, because I see the difference they make in students' lives."
Through an innovative learning model, the NHI’s Collegiate World Series is the third of three programs designed by NHI for high school students with high potential to become leaders within the U.S. and global Latino communities.
Although NHI notes that 98 percent of its students enter college—with 90 percent receiving college degrees within five years—the program focuses beyond higher education, seeing college as only one step toward a principled thinking about the Latino community from the perspective of asset development, innovation and sustainability.
The CWS program also relies on alumni who take NHI’s leadership concepts into their own communities including 2017 NHI Person of the Year Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who just yesterday won New York’s 14th Congressional District Democratic primary.
For more information about NHI and the Collegiate World Series, visit nationalhispanicinstitute.org/.
The NHI program was made possible in part by sponsorship from State Farm and Union Pacific.
