This article offers recommendations for Latino faculty members who wish to become academic administrators, for institutions of higher learning that want to recruit Latino administrators, and for the Hispanic community, which needs to move past its current seesaw regime of endurance and impatience and start applying gentle, but constant, pressure on universities to foster the development of Latino academic leaders.
Esquibel, A. (1992). The career mobility of chicano administrators in higher education. Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
2.
Guinier, L., & Torres, G. (2002). The miner's canary: Enlisting race, resisting power, transforming democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
3.
Haro, R. (2003). Latinos and academic leadership in American higher education. In D. J. León (Ed.), Latinos in higher education (pp. 155-191). Amsterdam: JAI.
4.
León, D.J. (2003). Building a leap for Latinos in higher education . In D. J. León (Ed.), Latinos in higher education (pp. 193-205). Amsterdam: JAI.
5.
Moody, J. (2004). Faculty diversity: Problems and solutions. New York: Routledge Falmer.
6.
Turner, C.S.V., & Myers, S.L. (2000). Faculty of color in academe: Bittersweet success . Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon .
7.
Valian, V. (1998). Why so slow? The advancement of women. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8.
Valverde, L.A. (2003). Leaders of color in higher education: Unrecognized triumphs in harsh institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
