CAHSI is establishing the Social Science Network, a network of social scientists who are interested in recruitment, retention, and advancement of Hispanic students and faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in general and computing and information science and engineering (CISE) in particular.

Purpose:
Enhance the understanding of CAHSI as to the causes and issues related to Hispanics entering, persisting and progressing in computing.

The Social Science Network is to contribute to CAHSI by sharing the social science findings, stimulating or conducting new research to better understand underlying issues in the CAHSI effort, refining interventions, and devising new ones.

To assist CAHSI members the Social Science Network made presentations at the first CAHSI All-Hands Meeting and developed brief introductions to relevant models and fact sheet on relevant statistics.

Presentations

Models

Statistics

The core members of the Social Science Network are:

• Carlos Rodriguez, American Institutes for Research (AIR)
• Manuela Romero, Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Maricel Quintana-Baker, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
• Amaury Nora, University of Houston
• Alexander Ramirez, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)

Affiliates of the Social Science Network through their involvement with the HACU Hispanic Higher Education Research Collective (H3ERC), of which the core members are also involved, include:

• Victor Saenz, University of Texas at Austin
• Jose Mestre, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Richard P. Duran, University of California, Los Angeles
• Sylvia Hurtado, Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), University of California, Los Angeles
• Jeanett Castellanos, University of California, Irvine
• Jorge Chapa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Alberta Gloria, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Catherine Horn, University of Houston
• Jose Luis Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
• Vasti Torres, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Rubén Martinez, Julían Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
• Ana Maria Villegas, Montclair State University

Many others have also expressed interest in participating, such as Jane Margolis, University of California, Los Angeles, Anthony Antonio, Stanford University, Estela M. Bensimon, University of Southern California, among others.