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How can striving Hispanic-Serving Institutions serve their students while countering the dominant
preconceptions of colleges and universities?Winner of the AAHHE Book of the Year Award by the
American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHispanic-Serving Institutions
(HSIs)&#8213no-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or
more Latinx students&#8213ar among the fastest-growing higher education segments in the
United States. As of fall 2016, they represented 15% of all postsecondary institutions in the United
States and enrolled 65% of all Latinx college students. As they increase in number, these
questions bear consideration: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? What special needs
does this student demographic have? And what opportunities and challenges develop when a
college or university becomes an HSI? In Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Gina Ann
Garcia explores how institutions are serving Latinx students, both through traditional and
innovative approaches. Drawing on empirical data collected over two years at three HSIs, Garcia
adopts a counternarrative approach to highlight the ways that HSIs are reframing what it means to
serve Latinx college students. She questions the extent to which they have been successful in
doing this while exploring how those institutions grapple with the tensions that emerge from
confronting traditional standards and measures of success for postsecondary institutions. Laying
out what it means for these three extremely different HSIs, Garcia also highlights the differences in
the way each approaches its role in serving Latinxs. Incorporating the voices of faculty, staff, and
students, Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions asserts that HSIs are undervalued, yet reveals
that they serve an important role in the larger landscape of postsecondary institutions.