Anne-Marie Nu?Ez, Richard E Hoover, Kellie Pickett, A. Christine Stuart-Carruthers, Maria Vazquez

Latinos in Higher Education (eBook, PDF)

Creating Conditions for Student Success: ASHE Higher Education Report, 39:1

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Latinos' postsecondary educational attainment has not keptpace with their growing representation in the U.S. population. Howcan Latino educational attainment be advanced? This monograph presents relevant contemporary research, focusingon the role of institutional contexts. Drawing particularly onresearch grounded in Latino students' perspectives, itidentifies key challenges Latino students face and discuss variousapproaches to address these challenges. Because so many Latinostudents are enrolled in federally designated Hispanic-ServingInstitutions (HSIs), it also specifically explores HSIs' rolein promoting Latinos' higher education access and equity. Asa conclusion, it offers recommendations for institutional, state,and federal policies that can foster supportive contexts. This is Volume 39 Issue 1 of the Jossey-Bass publicationASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph in theseries is the definitive analysis of a tough higher educationproblem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature andinstitutional experiences. Topics are identified by a nationalsurvey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned towrite the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of eachmanuscript before publication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118714522
• Artikelnr.: 38401135

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie Nunez is associate professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Richard E. Hoover is senior lecturer in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education (ELHE) program in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kellie Pickett is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A. Christine Stuart-Carruthers is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Maria Vazquez is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.