How can scholars reconnect themselves--and their students--to higher education's historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good?

Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography--and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement-these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives and the commitments...

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success?

Based on twenty years of work on student success, Ray Padilla here presents two related models he has developed that both provide a framework for understanding success and indicate how it can be enhanced and replicated. The research and theory that inform his models are covered in detail.

He defines student success simply as progress through a program of study, such that the student and others expect him or her to complete it and be promoted to the next level or graduate....