By Teresa Puente | Edited by Patricia Guadalupe

I teach at a university in Southern California, where almost half my students are Latino. We are what is known as an HSI, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. It’s a designation for colleges and universities where at least 25 percent of the full-time students are Hispanic.

It’s also a designation being erased on some government websites, including the U.S. Department of Education .

It’s not just the erasure of diversity, equity, and inclusion, known as DEI, that is harming colleges and universities across the country. It’s the active threats by the Trump administration to defund universities that support DEI. And it’s the threat to deport students and others in our communities.

At least seventy international students in the California St

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