The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education stimulates and encourages students, faculty, and educational practitioners, including individuals in education, government, and the private sector who conduct applied and policy-oriented educational research, to place the pursuit of ideas at the epicentre of their research-from framing meaningful problems to identifying and addressing key challenges to the reporting and dissemination of their findings.

Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education: Building on and Extending Lines of Inquiry for the Advancement of the Public Good

Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education: Building on and Extending Lines of Inquiry for the Advancement of the Public Good

Minority-serving institutions of higher education: Building on and extending lines of inquiry for the advancement of the public good

Minority-serving institutions (MSIs)— colleges and universities identified for their commitment to serving individuals historically underrepresented in higher education—contribute substantially to the public good. Adding to the diversity of institution types and increasing the diversity of the student population, MSIs strengthen two hallmarks of life and learning in the United States: choice and opportunity. Yet relatively little scholarship has focused on these institutions. In this chapter, we argue that contemporary scholars have an extraordinary opportunity to build on, and substantially extend, the extant literature on MSIs. In so doing, ...

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