The volume has three main sections: Demographics and demand; The crossover to college; Rising in academia. The first section focuses on the growing Latino demand for higher education in the United States. The second examines the means of getting Latinos over the gap between high school and college. And the third treats routes to careers as faculty and administrators.

Latino College Presidents: In Their Own Words is a collection of autobiographical-professional essays by leading Latino and Latina presidents of colleges and universities across the country. Each has written a chapter based on their personal education and professional lives.
The presidents divide their essays into three sections: 1) Surviving the educational pipeline to obtain an advanced degree, in which they detail their parents' support and at times sacrifices for their children's educational dreams; 2) Moving up the faculty/administrative ladders, in which they cite challenges they...