Contextualizing Latinx Males' Persistence in an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Housing, Rurality, Places, and Spaces in College Persistence

Abstract

This qualitative study focused on the experiences of successful Latinx male students in an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution (eHSI), who discussed how they understood their persistence in college. Analysis focused on how participants’ perceptions of persistence differed by ethnicity, first generation college student status, household income and immigrant generation. Findings from this study revealed distinctions in how successful Latino male students’ contextualized their persistence within an institution developing its identity as an eHSI in its mission to support its Latinx population. The study also provides an insight on how these distinctions contributes to the students’ success, self-efficacy beliefs and academic optimism.

Author

• Carolina E. Gonzalez, Montclair State University