Hispanic Serving Institutions

HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: THEIR ORIGIN, AND PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

Editors: Jesse Perez Mendez, Fred A. Bonner II et.al.

Publisher: Stylus Publishing

ISBN-13:  978-1620361443

Written by leading and rising scholars on HSIs, this book addresses historic policy origins and describes the experiences of various student populations served, faculty issues (i.e., governance, diversity, work/life experience, etc.), the impact of student affairs in advancing student development, and considers funding and philanthropy efforts. It also critically examines challenges that many institutions face – disjointed mission statements regarding support of their Latino/a student populations, governance structures that support the status quo, and the financial incentive to achieve HSI designation that may not correlate with enhancing the climate for Latinos.

HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS (HSIS) IN PRACTICE: DEFINING “SERVINGNESS” AT HSIS (HISPANICS IN EDUCATION AND ADMINISTRATION)

Editor: Ginna Ann Garcia

Publisher:  Information Age Publishing

ISBN-13: 978-1648020162

Administrators at HSIs will find the book useful as they seek out ways to effectively serve Latinx and other minoritized students. Faculty in graduate programs can use the book to highlight practitioner engaged scholarship. Legislators and policy advocates, who fight for funding and support for HSIs at the federal level, can use the book to inform and shape a research-based Latinx educational policy agenda. The book provides a framework that simplifies the complex phenomenon known as servingness. As HSIs become more significant, books that provide empirically based, practical examples of servingness are necessary.

HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS: ADVANCING RESEARCH AND TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE

Editors: Anne-Marie Nunez, Sylvia Hurtado, Emily Calderón Galdeano

Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition

ISBN-13: 978-1138814318

Despite the increasing numbers of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), limited research has addressed the meaning of their growth and its implications for higher education. Hispanic-Serving Institutions fills a critical 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 to this volume, exploring 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, potentials, and contributions to American higher education.

BECOMING HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS: ADVANCING RESEARCH AND TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE

Authors: Gina Ann Garcia

Publisher: John Hopkins Univesity Press

ISBN-13: 978-1421427379

In Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Gina Ann Garcia explores how institutions are serving Latinx students, both through traditional and innovative approaches. Drawing on empirical data collected over two years at three HSIs, Garcia adopts a counternarrative approach to highlight the ways that HSIs are reframing what it means to serve Latinx college students. She questions the extent to which they have been successful in doing this while exploring how those institutions grapple with the tensions that emerge from confronting traditional standards and measures of success for postsecondary institutions. 

Higher Education in the United States  From Princeton University Press

HIGHER EXPECTATIONS: CAN COLLEGES TEACH STUDENTS WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

Author: Derek Bok

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0691206615

Prior to this century, most psychologists thought that creativity, empathy, resilience, conscientiousness, and most personality traits were largely fixed by early childhood. What researchers have now discovered is that virtually all of these qualities continue to change through early adulthood and often well beyond. Such findings suggest that educators may be able to do much more than was previously thought possible to teach students to develop these important characteristics and thereby enable them to flourish in later life. Bok proposes sensible reforms, and demonstrates how our colleges can help students lead more successful, productive, and meaningful lives.

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Author: William G. Bowen

Publisher:  Princeton University Press

ISBN-13: 978-691159300

Two of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning. Could the growth in online courses slow the rising cost of college and help solve the crisis of affordability? In this book, William G. Bowen explains why, despite his earlier skepticism, he now believes technology has the potential to help rein in costs without negatively affecting student learning. As a former president of Princeton University, an economist, and author of many books on education, Bowen speaks with unique expertise on the subject.

THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: LEARNING AND CULTURE FROM THE FOUNDING TO WORLD WAR II

Author: Roger L. Geiger

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0691173061

This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge.

Breathtaking in scope and rich in narrative detail, The History of American Higher Education is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the origins and development of higher education in the United States.

AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SINCE WORLD WAR II: A HISTORY

Authors: Roger L. Geiger

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0691216928

In the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides an in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the ascendancy of the modern research university. He demonstrates how growth has been the defining feature of modern higher education, but how each generation since the war has pursued it for different reasons.