Hispanic Serving Institutions
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Serving Institutions
Programming for HSI initiatives, first year experience, orientation, leadership programs, DEIB, belonging efforts, student success, honors programs, TRIO and access programs, residence life, fraternity and sorority life, and campus wide convocations.
A masterful storyteller, human rights champion, and civic changemaker.
Saul’s stories open students to new ways of seeing, inviting them to stretch their understanding, question what they think they know, and grow into more compassionate global leaders.
The Walk of the Immigrants
Five thousand miles. Three months of walking, hitchhiking, sleeping on the ground and in hiding places. A trip from Quito, Ecuador, to El Paso, Texas, through 10 countries, nine border crossings and a kaleidoscopic hemisphere of beauty, danger, poverty, death and hope that is the Americas.” What Saul Flores experienced on 'The Walk of the Immigrants' is more relevant in today's world than ever."
Keynote for Hispanic/Latinx Students and Educators
Sugarland
Every May and June, the sugarcane workers of Atencingo, Mexico walk 100 miles in the Sugar Marches. Fathers spend long days, from sunrise to sunset, working under the orange flames of burning fields. Even through the burns, under moonlight, the harvest is not easy. Small town folklore says complete the marches three years running and a wish is granted.
'Sugarland' is the story of what happened after: how he built MAMA Sugar with the workers themselves, how conviction became structure, how real leadership means staying accountable to people whose lives depend on your promises. Students do not leave this keynote inspired. They leave unsettled, aware, and ready to act.
Keynote for Hispanic/Latinx Students and Educators
HSI Programming: Built for Belonging, Persistence, and Completion
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Hispanic Serving Institutions educate nearly half of all Latino college students in the United States, yet many campuses are being asked to do this work with fewer resources, higher need, and increasing pressure to improve retention, persistence, and sense of belonging.
At HSIs nationwide, only 40% of full time undergraduate students graduate within six years, well below the national average. Nearly half of Latino students at HSIs are placed in remedial coursework, extending time to degree and increasing debt. First generation college students, who make up a significant portion of HSI enrollment, consistently report a lower sense of belonging and are 71% more likely to leave college in their first year.
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Saul Flores partners with Hispanic Serving Institutions to create campus wide moments that strengthen belonging, persistence, and purpose, especially for first generation, low income, and historically excluded students.
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Support first year and transition programming
Strengthen retention and persistence efforts
Create shared experiences across academic and student affairs
Anchor Hispanic Heritage Month and HSI initiatives
Support TRIO, EOP, CAMP, and access programs
Reignite motivation during high stress points in the semester
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From UT Austin to Cal State campuses, from community colleges to R1s, Saul has worked with HSIs serving students across every region of the country. Campus partners consistently describe his ability to create raw emotional connection, followed by structured reflection and action. At UNT Dallas, where 85% of students identify as students of color, staff reported students feeling “vulnerable and heard” in ways they had not experienced with other programming.
At multiple campuses, educators report that students reference the keynote weeks later in advising sessions, leadership programs, and classroom conversations, using the experience as a point of clarity when they feel stuck or overwhelmed. This is programming that stays with students.
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If your institution is looking for programming that supports student success, strengthens belonging, and reinforces persistence at key moments in the academic year, Saul’s keynotes are designed for your campus.
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Saul has commanded stages around the nation, captivating audiences from global brands to the nation’s most influential educational gatherings.
In rooms across the country, his words have become a call to reckon with who we are and what we might become.
Saul Flores speaks with a rare urgency that draws audiences in and refuses to let go. His stories move from intimate to universal, leaving listeners with unshakable conviction.
HSI Programming
Saul’s keynotes and workshops are designed specifically for Hispanic Serving Institutions and the students you serve. Each program is built to support belonging, persistence, and follow through at moments when students are most at risk of disengaging.
Whether you are planning a first year experience program, Hispanic Heritage Month event, retention initiative, leadership program, or campus wide gathering, this work is designed to meet your students where they are and move them forward.