UT to Host College Prep Conference in July for High-Ability Latino Students

More than 130 high-ability high school Latino students will participate in the International Collegiate World Series (CWS), the National Hispanic Institute’s (NHI) unique college prep and leadership development conference, July 13-17 at The University of Tampa.

Students from nine states (California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York and Texas), as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and several Latin American countries, including the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama, will also be represented.

Through its innovative immersive-disruptive learning model and inquiry-based learning method, NHI’s mission at the CWS is to provide learning experiences that will help shape future generations of Latino leaders and prepare students for higher education. CWS utilizes such approaches to encourage students to think critically, to address pressing issues related to Latino communities and to challenge societal assumptions and conventions.

This is the third year in a row UT has hosted the conference.

Ernesto Nieto, NHI president and founder, characterizes the CWS as a forward-thinking leadership development program that is “looking into the future.”

“We’re preparing young people for global leadership, throughout the Americas, that factors in what we’ll need in 20 or 30 years, not just today,” Nieto said.

The NHI partners with several colleges and universities in the U.S. and Latin America to engage and support the NHI students. Over the course of its 37-year history, NHI has more than 90,000 alumni, of which 98.1 percent enrolled in college, with 27 percent enrolling out of their home state or country.

For more information about NHI, and its programs to develop leaders, visit www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/.