Retention

The 5-year graduation rates of Latino/a engineering students increased from 58.9% for the 2002-2007 cohort to 69.4% for the 2004-2009 cohort. Additionally, it is important to note that many of the Latino/a students that did not ultimately graduate from the College of Engineering still went on to graduate from another college within Cornell University. Of the Latino/a students that entered the College of Engineering in 2002, 72% of them went on to graduate from any college within Cornell University within five years. For the Latino/a students entering Engineering in 2004, their 5-year graduate rate from any college within the university rose to 79%. The structure of CU EMPower has been presented as a best practices model at national conferences.

In 2011, 66% of CAHSI computing bachelor's degrees were awarded to Hispanics. In contrast, the IPEDS data set indicates that 7% of bachelor's degrees in computer science in the U.S. granted to Hispanics. Thus, CAHSI graduates Hispanics at nearly ten times the national rate. This analysis does not include Hispanic Representation at Puerto Rico.

CAHSI has dramatically increased the number of women MS graduates from the time that it was first formed, demonstrating an increase of 62% since 2006.

From 2006-2011, nine percent of all Hispanic master's degrees in Computer Science/Engineering in the mainland United States were conferred by the six founding CAHSI mainland schools. 

CAHSI consistently produces large numbers of Hispanic doctorates in Computer Science and Computer Engineering-quite significant, given the overall low rate of Hispanic computing Ph.D. degree attainment each year in the nation. In fact, from 2006-2011, CAHSI mainland schools graduated 22% of the nation's Hispanic Ph.D.s in Computer Science.

CAMP is a small program with a proven track record of retention. CAMP students are retained at a higher rate that the overall CSU system-wide. CAMP is able to retain 80% or more of its population annually. While at the same time the CSU system retains only 70% of its freshman population. More recently California State University San Marcos has qualified for HSI status due in part to the efforts of CAMP.

Since its inception in 1996, HTI has: Awarded 77 masters, 310 doctoral fellowships and 10 post-doctoral fellowships; Engaged 43 tenured and tenured-equivalent professors as mentors of HTI fellows; Supported 48 masters fellows (11 of them continued onto Ph.D. studies) and 82 Ph.D. fellows in the completion of their doctorates; Achieved an average time to degree for HTI doctoral fellows of 5 years; and, 17 HTIC Scholars are in the pipeline for the 2012-2013 academic year.

In 2012, the HTIC received a $400,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support PhD doctoral students in the post-comprehensive exam stage of their doctoral work.  Six $13,500 fellowships will be available for distribution each year for the next four years.