Turns Out, Latinx Faculty Doesn’t Mean the School Sucks: The Faux Relationship Between Latinx Saturation Rate and Institutional Prestige

Authors

Julianne Pena, St. Mary's University

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Publication Date

Summer 2025

Digital Publisher

Digital Commons at St. Mary's University

Collection

McNair Scholars Symposium

Keywords

Hispanic Serving Institution, Prestige, Latinx, Faculty, Underrepresentation

Description

Understanding Hispanic Serving Institutions (HIS) provides an avenue into shedding light on the lack of Latinx faculty within HSIs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between saturation rate and prestige. Data were extracted from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities to identify the HSIs and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to assess the total number of faculty, students, applicants, and those admitted to each institution. Results show that there is no relationship between White representation and institutional prestige.

Disciplines

Educational Sociology | Higher Education | Latina/o Studies | Race and Ethnicity | Social Justice | Social Statistics

Format

MOV

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Video

Size or Duration

17 minutes 14 seconds

City

San Antonio, Texas

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.