The Majority in the Minority - Expanding the Representation of Latina/o Faculty, Administrators and Students in Higher Education

"As a volume destined to be employed by researchers, practitioners and policy makers, "The Majority in the Minority" appears at the right time in our nation's demographic history.

List of contents

Foreword. Laura Rendón; Introduction. Lee Jones and Jeanett Castellanos; 1, Latina/o Undergraduate Experiences in American Higher Education. Jeanett Castellanos and Lee Jones; 2, Historical Perspectives on Latino Access to Higher Education, 1848-1990. Victoria-María MacDonald and Teresa García; PART ONE. UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCES AND RETENTION. 3, Access to Higher Education for Hispanic Students. Real or Illusory. Amaury Nora; 4, Latino/a and African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions. A Psychosociocultural Perspective of Cultural Congruity and Climate and Academic Persistence; Alberta Gloria and Jeanett Castellanos; 5, Active Faculty Involvement. Maximizing Student Achievement Efforts. Guadalupe Anaya and Darnell Cole; PART TWO. STUDENT VOICES. 6, Reflections of a Latina Graduate Student Experience. Katherine Nerona; 7, Notes from a Latino Graduate Student Experience at a PWI. Raymond Herrera; 8, Latina Undergraduate Student. Veronica Orozco; 9, Latina/o Retention in Four-Year Universities. Sylvia Hurtado; PART THREE. LATINO ADMINISTRATORS' EXPERIENCES AND RETENTION. 10, Latinos and Administrative Positions in American Higher Education. Roberto Haro and Juan Francisco Lara; PART FOUR. LATINO FACULTY EXPERIENCES AND RETENTION. 11, Barriers to Accessing the Professoriate. Raymond Padilla; 12, Latino/a Faculty and the Tenure Process in Cultural Context. Robert Ibarra and Jeanett Castellanos; 13, Latina Faculty in Higher Education. Patricia Arredondo; 14, Scholarship, Community Service and Job Status-The Hispanic Professoriate. Richard Verdugo; 15, Developmental Career Challenges for Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education. Lisa Flores, Alberta Gloria, Patricia Arredondo and Jeanett Castellanos; 16, A Structure that Facilitates the Recruitment and Retention of Latinos/as in Higher Education. Jeanett Castellanos and Lee Jones

About the author

Lee Jones is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Instruction and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the College of Education, The Florida State University. Jeanett Castellanos, Ph.D. is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the School of Social Sciences. Her areas of research include BIPOC student coping and persistence, cultural values and identity, and well-being. Nationally, Dr. Castellanos is the recipient of the 2020 APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race) Distinguished Career in Service Award, the APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Samuel M. Turner Mentorship Award, the 2012 NLPA Star Vega Community Service Award, and 2012 AAHEE Outstanding Support of Hispanics in Higher Education. Laura I. Rendón is Professor Emerita at the University of Texas-San Antonio. She is also an educational consultant and featured speaker at over 100 higher education institutions and conferences throughout the nation. Her presentations focus on topics such as student success, Latinx STEM students, and sensing/thinking deep learning experiences, as well as self-care and healing.Laura is a nationally-recognized student advocate, activist scholar and contemplative educator. She grew up in a low-income, single-parent household along the U.S. Mexico Border in Laredo, Texas where she learned to speak English in the first grade. Rendón is a passionate advocate for low-income, first-generation students who she feels have hopes and dreams but often do not know how to realize them especially without resources.She has held faculty and administrative appointments at a wide range of universities including the University of South Carolina, North Carolina State University, Arizona State University, California State University-Long Beach, and Iowa State University and the University of Texas-San Antonio.

Summary

"As a volume destined to be employed by researchers, practitioners and policy makers, "The Majority in the Minority" appears at the right time in our nation’s demographic history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jeanett Castellanos (Editor), Lee Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2003
• EAN: 9781579220730
• ISBN: 978-1-57922-073-0
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 505 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories