ABSTRACT
Although Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) are comprised of diverse institutional types, which have distinctive histories, missions, and characteristics (Conrad & Gasman, 2015; Cunningham, Park, & Engle, 2014; Gasman, Nguyen, & Conrad, 2015), they share common threads (Conrad & Gasman, 2015; Gasman et al., 2015). For example, MSIs, which consist of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), serve high populations of students who are first-generation college students, come from low socio-economic backgrounds, and who are dependent upon financial aid to access and persist through higher education (Flores & Park, 2013). There are currently 650 MSIs and they enroll 3.6 million students at the undergraduate level, which is 20% of all undergraduate students (Conrad & Gasman, 2015; Gasman et al., 2015).
