By Daniel Perez, El Paso Matters The Trump administration’s decision to cease Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant programs would have academic and economic consequences, according to the leader of the University of Texas at El Paso’s Diana Natalicio Institute for Hispanic Student Success. Anne-Marie Núñez, the center’s executive director, said defunding HSIs could negatively affect human capital at the national level and the nation’s global leadership in sciences.

Núñez said that HSIs are more likely than their higher education peers to offer economic and social mobility. The federal government’s investment has led to effective strategies for historically underserved college students, which has had an overall  positive effect on the nation’s higher education system. An HSI is a college or

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