
UT honors NHI with Community Partnership Award
The National Hispanic Institute and the University of Texas at Austin’s ongoing partnership received public acknowledgment this past week, as the flagship university’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement honored NHI with its Community Partnership Award. In an awards luncheon at the Texas Union Ballroom last Thursday, the host university for the Texas Ambassador Great Debate […]

#NHIDecisionDay shows NHI alumni following a diversity of dreams
If you took to social media sites this past Friday and into the weekend, you saw proud National Hispanic Institute students using the #NHIDecisionDay hashtag to show where they’re going to school. Some took direct inspiration from universities they first encountered through NHI. Gabi de Simone (from Suffield Academy in Suffield, Conn.), whose story we […]

Gabi De Simone: An #NHIDecisionDay story
Gabi De Simone’s NHI journey started at Villanova University, when she attended the 2015 Northeast Great Debate program, bonded with new friends, and tapped into her public speaking abilities. It’s fitting, then, that she’ll continue her leadership journey (and announce it officially on Friday as part of #NHIDecisionDay celebrations) at the very school where it […]