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Examining Effective Practices at Minority-Serving Institutions

Beyond a Deficit Framing of Leadership

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Focuses on the unique challenges facing leaders at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), explores the leadership practices that are effective at these institutions
  • Shows how anti-deficit approach has the potential to expand the leadership pipeline for MSIs and expose leaders to innovative models and strategies of effective leadership
  • Synthesizes multiple perspectives and delineates emerging knowledge on leadership at MSIs, including themes of agreement and points of dissonance while also providing directions for future research for the growth and sustainability of these institutions

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Lessons Learned from Supporting HBCU Leaders in Implementing Student Success Practices

    • DeShawn Preston, Tiffany Jones, Bonita J. Brown
    Pages 43-62
  3. When Leadership Goes Wrong: Implications for Effective Leadership Practices for HBCUs

    • William Broussard, Ventric Fletcher, Urban Wiggins
    Pages 75-94
  4. Reimagining HBCU Leaders as Policy Actors

    • Sosanya M. Jones
    Pages 95-112
  5. AANAPISI Program Directors: Opportunities and Challenges

    • Thai-Huy Nguyen, Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen
    Pages 161-177
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-207

About this book

This book aims to help expand the pipeline for executive leaders at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), where there is a high turnover in leadership, particularly among HBCUs. The editors and their contributors examine leadership at MSIs from an anti-deficit approach and create and add to the scholarly discourse around effective leadership practices, models, and strategies for leaders at MSIs. With this approach, this book seeks to help leaders of MSIs increase their leadership capacities, which may help expand the pipeline of MSI leaders and equip them with the skills to be successful in their positions. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

    Robert T. Palmer

  • United Negro College Fund’s Institute for Capacity Building, Washington, DC, USA

    DeShawn Preston

  • Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, USA

    Amanda Assalone

About the editors

Robert T. Palmer is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University, USA. His research examines issues of access, equity, retention, persistence, and the college experience of racial and ethnic minorities, particularly within the context of historically black colleges and universities. 

DeShawn Preston serves as the Research Associate for the United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF)  Institute for Capacity Building. He earned a PhD in Higher Educational Leadership at Clemson University, USA, and his research agenda focuses on African American students in graduate and professional programs.

Amanda Assalone is Postdoctoral Research and Policy Analyst at the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), USA. Her research focuses on improving post-secondary access and outreach initiatives for underrepresented students, with a particular interest in advancing research and policy aimedto support Asian American community college students.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Examining Effective Practices at Minority-Serving Institutions

  • Book Subtitle: Beyond a Deficit Framing of Leadership

  • Editors: Robert T. Palmer, DeShawn Preston, Amanda Assalone

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16609-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16608-3Published: 23 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16609-0Published: 13 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Higher Education, Ethnicity in Education

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