Educational Challenges at Minority Serving Institutions

Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)are responsible for educating 20 percent of the nation’s college students and nearly 40 percent of the nation’s students of color. This growing group of institutions is essential to higher education and moving toward a more equitable society. This important book focuses on the challenges faced by MSIs within the larger higher education context and provides practical solutions to address these challenges. From performance-based funding, to issues of being dually designated MSIs, to articulation agreements with community colleges, to college readiness, the authors tackle the most important topics in higher education by exploring these varied topics through the lens of MSIs.

Contents Preface Chapter One – Preserving a Tribal Identity: A Different Kind of Diversity Jessica Fry Chapter Two – Presidential Leadership at MSIs: Challenges and StrategiesKatie Somers & Ken Leichter Chapter Three – Unequal Footing: Examining Performance Based Funding and Historically Black CollegesAmanda Washington Lockett Chapter Four – The Problematic Challenges Faced by Dual Designation at California State UniversitiesJennifer Yang & Marietess Masulit Chapter Five – K-12/MSI Partnership Programs as a Means to Improve College Readiness: A Texas Case StudyKendra Grinnage & Briana O’Neal Chapter Six – Will My Credits Transfer? A Critical Look at Articulation Agreements and Policy at California Minority Serving InstitutionsLauren Scicluna & Temitope Ligali Chapter Seven – Up, Up, and Away: Increasing Participation in Study Abroad at HBCUs and HSIsTyler Hallmark and Patricia Tita Feraud Chapter Eight – Opportunities to Enhance Pre-Health Advising at Minority Serving InstitutionsAndrew Millin Chapter Nine – Supporting Undergraduate Black Women at HBCUs: Recommendations for Campus AdministratorsLakeyta Smith, Shariah Salahaladyn, Abigail Shepherd Chapter Ten – Are You Serving All of Us? Afro-Latinos/as and Hispanic Serving InstitutionsPaola Esmieu & Mercedes Terrazas Chapter Eleven – Logging on to New Models of Education: Online Education at Minority Serving InstitutionsJillian Cener Chapter Twelve – Creating Pathways for Undocumented Students at Minority Serving InstitutionsAndrew Martinez Chapter Thirteen – Remnants of Past Policies Continue to Create Challenges for TCUsGinger Stull-Hunter Contributor Bios

Marybeth Gasman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education and the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Andrés Castro Samayoa is Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Lynch School at Boston College. He also serves as the Assistant Director for Assessment at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. William Casey Boland is Research Associate at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Paola "Lola"Esmieu is a doctoral student and the Associate Director for Programs at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.