The Hispanic Border Leadership Institute (HBLI) was established in 1996 by four southwestern institutions of higher education with partial funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Now a consortium of eight institutions of higher education, serving Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, HBLI is dedicated to the mission of improving the education of Latinos from pre-kindergarten to doctoral studies by promoting systematic change via Latino leadership and policy development within the following groups:

• School boards
• Community college boards of trustees
• Future executive officers of schools, colleges, state departments, and professional associations
• State legislators, congressional members, and civic leaders.

HBLI consortium of eight higher education institutions in the Southwest

• Arizona State University
• California State University - Bakersfield
• Maricopa County Community College District
• New Mexico State University
• Texas State University
• University of Texas-Brownsville
• University of California-Riverside
• University of Texas-Pan American

HBLI in Action

The consortium recognizes that in order to significantly improve the educational conditions of Hispanics, bold new approaches must be taken. The Institute seeks to bring about systematic change in education by designing new approaches to the doctoral preparation programs of educational leaders, by providing relevant leadership and policy training for trustees of public schools and community colleges as well as universities of the Southwest, and by examining and influencing public policy directly impacting Hispanic education in the Southwestern United States.

HBLI operates from one simple but powerful assumption: That one person in a significant role can influence and impact literally thousands of people.

• One HBLI-trained community college trustee can impact 15,000 students through policy decisions.
• One HBLI doctoral Fellow in the role of a superintendent of a school district can impact 20,000 students, and so on. Multiply that over time, say a ten-year period, and the numbers are staggering: 150,000 for the trustee; 200,000 for the superintendent.

CONTACT US

Because HBLI serves as a consortium, we seek to network with other agencies who share similar missions or whose purposes overlap with our own mission. To learn more about HBLI and how you can become involved, please contact us.


Dr. Leonard A. Valverde
HBLI Executive Director
Arizona State University
Mary Lou Fulton
College of Education
414 Farmer Education Building
PO Box 872411
Tempe AZ 85287-2411
Phone: 480/727-6364
Fax: 480/965-8497
Email: valverde@asu.edu