Controversy still surrounds the use of the $2.8 million Hispanic Serving Institute grant awarded to CSULB about a year ago, the OC Weekly reported Wednesday. The grant is supposed to be used to help Latino students on campus.
The Chicano/Latino Studies Department complained that they and other Latino groups were not being involved enough in the implementation of the grant. They wrote a letter of no-confidence to President F. King Alexander, who did not respond until a year later.
Students indicated they wanted the grant to go towards a Latino student center, but the money is currently being used to hire peer mentors who counsel at-risk Latino students and to make various programs more "culturally competent."
Other programs are being planned, according to Provost Karen Gould, who sent an email to students and faculty explaining what is going on with the grant.
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