New Directions for Higher Education, Minority-Serving Institutions: Distinct Purposes, Common Goals, No. 102 (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education)

Minority-serving institutions share a common mission to educate the growing number of racial- and ethnic-minority American students, most often within their own communities.The stated missions of these schools address the issues that form a well-recited litany of the failures that characterize many mainstream institutions in their attempts to educate minorities.Recognizing that mainstream institutions were built for nonminority populations, minority-serving institutions have attempted to structure and organize educational experiences for students within their own social and cultural contexts.These institutions--including historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and Hispanic-serving institutions--have unique histories, purposes, and operating structures.Despite these differences, minority-serving institutions share many common goals in educating underserved populations.These goals make it important to understand the shared visions and missions as they build for the future.This volume serves as a primer on the growing group of minority-serving institutions, with the goal of educating leaders at mainstream institutiJamie P. Merisotis is the author of 'New Directions for Higher Education, Minority-Serving Institutions: Distinct Purposes, Common Goals, No. 102 (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education)', published 1998 under ISBN 9780787942465 and ISBN 0787942464.