California Community College Presidents’ Leadership: Serving Latinx Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions
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description: This qualitative case study examined how California Community College Presidents (CCCPs) make meaning of leading a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) to evaluate how CCCPs respond to Latinx student success gaps and support initiatives at their campuses. Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have been more visible within community college literature, but what remains unclear is specifically how leaders at HSIs enact their leadership and direct their efforts to serve Latinx students. This dissertation addressed the gap in MSI scholarship to explicitly focus on the role of CCCPs at HSIs and their service to Latinx students. The study applied Eddy’s Multidimensional Leadership Model (MDLM) as a theoretical framework to guide the questions and analysis of 18 interviews with CCCPs from HSIs in Southern California. Through the process of this research, the MDLM was reimagined to include specific dimensions closely related to the patterns in CCCP leadership derived from the data. The interviews with CCCPs were focused on leadership and were analyzed through the four dimensions of the MDLM framework: adaptive competencies, style, strategy, and identity to encompass a holistic view of each participant’s unique leadership profile. The adapted MDLM also represents the uses of self- reflection, which is a critical practice for leaders to understand who they are and align that with behaviors of leadership to mobilize their campuses.The themes that emerged from the data were adaptive competencies, style, strategy, and identity. Each theme represented a dimension of the revised MDLM, which was represented on a range that allowed a nuanced understanding of the combination of traits, characteristics, and lived experiences that inform each participant’s leadership profile. In addition to the four critical themes that comprised the analysis, a fifth overarching theme, racial consciousness, was woven throughout the other dimensions. Racial consciousness is a theme that emerged in intervi…
abstract: This qualitative case study examined how California Community College Presidents (CCCPs) make meaning of leading a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) to evaluate how CCCPs respond to Latinx student success gaps and support initiatives at their campuses. Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have been more visible within community college literature, but what remains unclear is specifically how leaders at HSIs enact their leadership and direct their efforts to serve Latinx students. This dissertation addressed the gap in MSI scholarship to explicitly focus on the role of CCCPs at HSIs and their service to Latinx students. The study applied Eddy’s Multidimensional Leadership Model (MDLM) as a theoretical framework to guide the questions and analysis of 18 interviews with CCCPs from HSIs in Southern California. Through the process of this research, the MDLM was reimagined to include specific dimensions closely related to the patterns in CCCP leadership derived from the data. The interviews with CCCPs were focused on leadership and were analyzed through the four dimensions of the MDLM framework: adaptive competencies, style, strategy, and identity to encompass a holistic view of each participant’s unique leadership profile. The adapted MDLM also represents the uses of self- reflection, which is a critical practice for leaders to understand who they are and align that with behaviors of leadership to mobilize their campuses.The themes that emerged from the data were adaptive competencies, style, strategy, and identity. Each theme represented a dimension of the revised MDLM, which was represented on a range that allowed a nuanced understanding of the combination of traits, characteristics, and lived experiences that inform each participant’s leadership profile. In addition to the four critical themes that comprised the analysis, a fifth overarching theme, racial consciousness, was woven throughout the other dimensions. Racial consciousness is a theme that emerged in intervi…
author: Ryan Rodríguez, Christina Joy
keywords: Community College, Hispanic Serving Institution, Latinx Students, Leadership, Presidents, Racial Consciousness, Educational Leadership, Higher Education Administration
date published: 2023-01-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:41:01Z
provider: Claremont Graduate University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Claremont Graduate University