Institutional Agents at a Hispanic Serving Institution: Using Social Capital to Empower Students

García, Gina A.; Ramirez, Jenesis J.

doi:10.1177/0042085915623341

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“…For example, the culture at HSIs may help Latinx students feel connected to faculty and staff on campus with similar racial/ethnic backgrounds (Dayton, Gonzalez-Vasquez, Martinez, & Plum, 2004) and may increase their sense of belonging (Arbelo-Marrero & Milacci, 2016;Maestas, Vaquera, & Muñoz Zehr, 2007). Staff and administrators at HSIs may also create campus cultures that foster success for Latinx students (Espinoza & Espinoza, 2012;Garcia & Ramirez, 2015). Some HSIs incorporate advising models that are culturally relevant (Garcia & Okhidoi, 2015) while others enact student support programs that validate Latinx students (Martinez & Gonzales, 2015).…”

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What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities

García

2018

AMAE Journal

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While scholars agree that enrolling a large percentage of Latinx students is not enough for postsecondary institutions to be considered "Latinx-serving," there continues to be a debate about what it means for institutions to have an organizational identity for serving this population. The Typology of HSI Organizational Identities is a guiding framework that suggests there are multiple ways for an institution to serve Latinx students, and thus multiple "types" of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The typology considers academic and non-academic outcomes for Latinx students as well as the institution's ability to provide a culture that enhances their racial/ethnic experience. In this study, I used the typology to classify four HSIs and two emerging HSIs in the Midwest, a geographic area in the United States with a growing population of Latinxs and HSIs. I drew on secondary data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and primary data from institutional websites. In doing so, I sought to test the utility of the typology for classifying institutions for research, practice, and policy, and found that it is a useful tool for looking at how postsecondary institutions may serve Latinx students beyond enrollment. Implications for research, practice, and policy are discussed.

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What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities

García

2018

AMAE Journal

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“…Moreover, taking action will require goal-setting exercises, data monitoring, and ongoing reflection and action (Malcom-Piqueux & Bensimon, 2015). Leaders at (e)HSIs must become institutional agents who not only recognize the unique capital and knowledge that minoritized students bring with them to campus, but also recognize the larger systems that are preventing these students from succeeding while working to dismantle those systems (Garcia & Ramirez, 2018).…”

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Decolonizing Leadership Practices: Towards Equity and Justice at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging HSIs (eHSIs

García¹

2019

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Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs; colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% Raza undergraduates) are increasing in number in the United States, growing rapidly from 189 in 1994 to 492 in 2016. Moreover, there were 333 emerging HSIs (eHSIs) in 2016, indicating that the number of HSIs will continue to grow; however, leaders, including faculty, staff, and administrators at (e)HSIs, continue to grapple with the question, “How do we move from ‘enrolling’ to ‘serving’ Raza students?” There are a lack of leadership frameworks specifically designed for those working at (e)HSIs and with a focus on serving Raza students. The authors argue that decolonizing leadership practices will help leaders liberate and empower Raza students by disrupting the coloniality of power that promotes and sustains higher education institutions as racial/colonial projects. The authors propose leadership processes for working with Raza students at (e)HSIs. Although leaders at non-(e)HSIs may consider these processes, the authors call on leaders at (e)HSIs to transform their leadership practices as a necessity for becoming Raza-serving.

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“…Academic librarians also must face the paradox that even as their collections support academic freedom, they do so from hegemonic perspectives (Bales & Engle, 2012). Faculty and staff, including librarians, at HSIs can greatly affect Hispanic students’ outcomes when they are armed with a critical consciousness of the institutional and social obstacles that impede their students’ success where Whiteness has always been normative (Franco & Hernandez, 2018; Garcia & Ramirez, 2018).…”

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The Academic Library and Social Justice: Exploring Librarian Attitudes at One HSI

Lumley

2019

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

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Librarians have the potential to influence the university’s representation of knowledge, making it important to understand the attitudes they bring to work each day. Results of this Q study indicate librarians may believe their profession’s ethos of neutrality renders debate over social justice within the library moot. Only a small number of librarians at this Hispanic-serving institution envision themselves positioned to promote social justice by empowering students to use the resources currently available within the library.

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Institutional Agents at a Hispanic Serving Institution: Using Social Capital to Empower Students

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities

What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities

Decolonizing Leadership Practices: Towards Equity and Justice at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging HSIs (eHSIs

The Academic Library and Social Justice: Exploring Librarian Attitudes at One HSI

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