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.

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.