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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)--not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25 percent or more Latinx students--are among the fastest-growing segments in America. They now represent 13 percent of all postsecondary institutions in the United States and enroll 62 percent of all Latinx college students. As they increase in number, the question remains: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? What special...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Beyond Free College seeks greater investment in higher education by promoting a single metric-lower-cost-per-degree-granted-as the driver of a transfer pathway. The book aims to spur higher education advocates to reorganize the transfer function to serve neotraditional students in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education"--
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Through case studies of college faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals engaged in inquiry using the Equity Scorecard, the book clarifies the “muddled conversation” that colleges and universities are having about equity. Synthesizing equity standards based on three theories of justice―justice as fairness, justice as care, and justice as transformation―the authors provide strategies for enacting equity in practice on college...
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book shares the perspectives of community college CEOs and examines the role of leadership in adopting institutional-wide strategies and allocating resources that have advanced immigrant and refugee integration on campus and in the community"--
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Series
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"White Men on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race on campus, especially among white men, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism found within this group of students. Within the context of Trump's presidential win in the November 2016 election, and in the wake of various racial incidents on American college campuses, this book offers the views, experiences, and development of white male undergraduates at...
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Understanding the complexity of racial categories is essential for achieving equity and reducing inequality in the United States. The authors show how that by disaggregating data on race, researchers and policymakers can more fully understand how race is factored in educational settings"--
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Series
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist theories, The Chicana/o/x Dream profiles first-generation, Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic success"--
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the increasing numbers of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and their importance in serving students who have historically been underserved in higher education, limited research has addressed the meaning of the growth of these institutions 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,...
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"AAC&U launched its Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) initiative in 2002 as a framework with four primary objectives: a focus on student intellectual and social development, a purposeful development and utilization of organizational resources to enhance student learning, a call for attention to the cultural difference learners bring to educational experiences, and a welcoming community that engages all of its diversity in the service of student and...
Publisher
Information Age Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), which are not-for-profit, degree granting postsecondary institutions that enroll at least 25% Latinxs, also grows, with 523 institutions now meeting the enrollment threshold to become HSIs. But as they increase in number, the question remains:...
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