Title: Hispanic-Serving Institutions in American Higher Education: Their Origin, and Present and Future Challenges
Editors: Jesse Perez Mendez & 4 more
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1620361443

This is the first book to exclusively address Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), filling a major gap in both the research on these institutions and in our understanding of their approaches to learning and role in supporting all students while focusing on Hispanic students. Born out of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1992 and classified as such if their enrollment of Latino students account for a quarter of undergraduate enrollment, the number of HSIs and their impact in higher education is growing. Given the projected growth of the Latino population, their work has important implications for higher education at large.

Title:  Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs (Hispanics in Education and Administration)
Editor: Gina Ann Garcia
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1648020162

This edited book features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining 'servingness' in practice at HSIs. Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centers Latinx ways of knowing and being, with the goal of providing transformative experiences that lead to both academic and non-academic outcomes. In this book, practitioners tell their stories of success in defining servingness at HSIsn and provide empirical and practical evidence of the outcomes of federally funded HSI grants, including the Department of Education Title III and V grants.

Title: Hispanic Serving Institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice
Authors: Anne-Marie Nunez, Sylvia Hurtado, &1 more
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1138814318

Despite the increasing numbers of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and their importance in serving students historically underserved in higher education, limited research has addressed the meaning of these institutions for higher education. This volume fills a gap in understanding the organizational behavior of institutions that serve large numbers of low-income, first-generation, and Latina/o students. Leading scholars on HSIs contribute chapters, exploring a wide array of topics, data sources, conceptual frameworks, and methodologies to examine HSIs’ institutional environments and organizational behavior. This volume explores how institutions can better serve their students and illustrates HSIs’ changing organizational dynamics, and contributions to higher education.

Title: Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic Serving Institutions
Editors: Cristina Kirklighter, Diana Cardenas & 1 more
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN-13: 978-0791471944

This volume brings together the voices of two-year and four-year writing teachers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the US to explore the complexities of teaching writing with Latino/a students. Made up of narratives, qualitative studies, and conversations, the book presents the theories and practices of these experienced teachers. Its strength lies in the diversity of perspectives and methods used by these teachers to address many of the issues central to teaching Latino/a and other minority students: acknowledgment of difference, respect for diversity, student identity, students' right to their own language, and the valuing of home and school literacies and languages.

Title: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, Reckoning and Judgement
Author: Brian Cantwell Smith
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-13:  9780262043045

In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level intelligence and judgment, which have been honed over millennia. Recent advances in AI may be of epochal significance, but human intelligence is of a different order than even the most powerful calculative ability enabled by new computational capacities. Smith unpacks the notion of intelligence itself—what sort humans have, and what sort AI aims at.

Title: Artificial Religion
Author: Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-13: 9780262052214 

Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relation to AI, we must first look at the religious and existential background of our thinking about machines. The book is unique in discussing the myth of AI in terms of its technical limitations and the power of Big Tech and revealing the deeper cultural “grammar” of AI—that is, the religious patterns of thinking and existential aspirations that are often not visible but still haunt Western thinking and shape its technological culture. Moreover, this is done in a way that sheds critical light on the power of AI.

Title: The Silicon Shrink
Author: Daniel Oberhaus
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-13: 9780262380447 

AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. Oberhaus argues that these new, ostensibly therapeutic technologies already pose significant risks to vulnerable people. These new breeds of AI systems are creating a psychiatric surveillance economy in which the emotions, behavior, and cognition of everyday people are subtly manipulated by psychologically savvy algorithms that have escaped the clinic. Oberhaus also introduces readers to the concept of “swipe psychology,” which is quickly establishing itself as the dominant mode of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.

Title: The Line, AI and the Future of Personhood
Author: James Boyle
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-13: 9780262049160

Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens if the claims to consciousness are more credible? In The Line, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to “the line” we believe separates our species from the rest of the world and “persons” with legal rights from objects. The Line offers fascinating and thoughtful answers to questions about our future that will arrive sooner than we think.