Hispanic-Serving Institutions Advancing Research and Transformative Practice

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, and Latina/o students. Leading scholars on HSIs contribute chapters to this volume, exploring a wide array of topics, data sources, conceptual frameworks, and methodologies to examine HSIs? institutional environments and organizational behavior. This cutting-edge volume explores how institutions can better serve their students and illustrates HSIs? changing organizational dynamics, potentials, and contributions to American higher education.

Foreword by Michael Olivas

Chapter 1. Why Study Hispanic-Serving Institutions?

Anne-Marie Núñez, Sylvia Hurtado, and Emily Calderón Galdeano

PART 1: CONTEXTUALIZING THE CULTURE, STRUCTURE, AND IDENTITY OF HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 2. Realizing the Potential of Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Transformation

Sylvia Hurtado and Adriana Ruiz Alvarado

Chapter 3. Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges and Their Role in Hispanic Transfer

Anne-Marie Núñez, Gloria Crisp, and Diane Elizondo

Chapter 4. Institutional Diversity Among Four-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Anne-Marie Núñez and Diane Elizondo

Chapter 5. Using Organizational Theory to Study Hispanic-Serving Institutions: An Imperative Research Agenda

Gina A. García

PART 2: FRAMING INSTITUTIONAL ACTORS AND EXPERIENCES WITHIN HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 6. Latina/o Student Characteristics and Outcomes at Four-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Emerging HSIs, and Non-HSIs

Marcela Cuellar

Chapter 7. The Horizon of Possibilities: How Faculty in Hispanic-Serving Institutions can Reshape the Production and Legitimization of Knowledge within Academia

Leslie D. Gonzales

Chapter 8. Enacting Leadership at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Laura J. Cortez

PART 3: BUILDING CAPACITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 9. Examining the Financial Resilience of Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Noe Ortega, Joanna Frye, Christopher J. Nellum, Aurora Kamimura, and Angela Vidal-Rodríguez

Chapter 10. Organizational Learning for Student Success: Cross-Institutional Mentoring, Transformative Practice, and Collaboration among Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Sylvia Hurtado, René González, and Emily Calderón Galdeano

Chapter 11. Do Hispanic-Serving Institutions Really Underperform? Using Propensity Score Matching to Compare Outcomes of Hispanic-Serving and non-Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Awilda Rodríguez and Emily Calderón Galdeano

Anne-Marie Núñez is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the Higher Education program at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Sylvia Hurtado is Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Emily Calderón Galdeano is Director of Research for Excelenciain Education and formerly served as the Director of Research and Information for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).