Hispanic-Serving Institutions in American Higher Education: Their Origin, and Present and Future Challenges - Paperback

by Jesse Perez Mendez (Editor), Fred A. II Bonner (Editor), Josephine Méndez-Negrete (Editor)

This book touches on the many facets of HSIs, painting an organic mosaic of institutions in position to advance Latino postsecondary progress, both chronicling the contemporary challenges that these institutions face while also looking to their future.

Author Biography

Jesse Perez Mendez is Associate Professor in Higher Education Administration and the Donnie and John A. Brock Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Oklahoma State University. His research access explores the dynamics of postsecondary access, particularly of minorities and low-SES students. Fred A. Bonner II is professor and endowed chair of educational leadership and counseling in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University. He also serves as the founding executive director and chief scientist of the Minority Achievement Creativity and High Ability (MACH-III) Center. His research foci illuminate the experiences of academically gifted African American males across the P-20 pipeline, diverse faculty in academe, and diverse populations in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). He is coeditor of two books with Stylus Publishing, Building on Resilience: Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline (2014) and Diverse Millennials Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs (2011). Bonner is currently developing a theoretical framework, mascusectionality, that will explore the engagements of Black men. Josephine Méndez-Negrete teaches at the University of Texas - San Antonio. Robert T. Palmer is Associate Professor of Student Affairs Administration at the State University of New York, Binghamton. In 2011, Dr. Palmer was named an ACPA Emerging Scholar and in 2012 was recognized as an Emerging Scholar by the American Education Research Association for his scholarship on multicultural and multiethnic populations. Frank Hernandez