Centering Student Voices: Expanding on Servingness Indicators at a Fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)

This paper contributes to the emerging scholarly conversation of context-specific servingness research that highlights the voices of students. Specifically, this paper focuses on 14 undergraduate and graduate students’ understandings and experiences concerning servingness at their local setting, a fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Our findings suggest that location plays a vital role in how undergraduate and graduate students understand and experience servingness. Moreover, indicators of servingness at a fronterizx HSI call for: understanding border commuting and intersectionality as core features of servingness; acknowledging dynamic languaging practices of the fronterizx community; and transforming higher education through greater representation of the border culture.