ABSTRACT
The rapid increases in the Latino population across this country, especially among the ten to twenty-five years of age cohorts, has caused educators and researchers to examine closely their educational attainment. While the focus of most education-based research on this population group has been in the primary and secondary schools, a few studies have been done on their participation in higher education that includes status as students, and less so as staff, faculty, and administrators. The professional literature contains some important statistical and analytical studies on this minority population as students and non-teaching faculty, but very little has been done on their status as college and university administrators. The focus of this chapter, therefore, will be on Latinos and administrative positions in American higher education.
