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Lac, Van T.; Diaz, Christina – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study examines the experiences of three aspiring Latina school leaders in a principal preparation program with a social justice emphasis. Employing theoretical perspectives grounded in a community-based educational leadership framework and transformational resistance theory, this study documents how coursework informed the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Disadvantaged
Witkowsky, Patty; Obregon, Victoria; Bruner, Brett; Alanis, Jennifer – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
Considering the collectivist culture and strong family connections in Latinx families, engaging parents and family members of new Latinx students in higher education is important to promote students' persistence and completion of their degrees. Parent and family member orientation (PFMO) programs offered in Spanish provide a bridge between…
Descriptors: Collectivism, Family Relationship, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Students
Rebecca Klein-Collins; Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) announce the inaugural winners of the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Equity Awards, recognizing strategies that have been proven to put CPL in reach of key adult learner populations and/or increase their CPL credit-earning.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Alaska Natives
Collier, Daniel A.; McMullen, Isabel – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
This exploratory, descriptive study examined trends associated with Kalamazoo Promise (KPromise) student stop out, reenrollment, and persistence to a credential upon reenrollment. For the 2006-2017 cohorts, 78% were retained from first to second year. Inferential models suggested that first-year stop out was mainly correlated to students' high…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Stopouts, Reentry Students, Academic Persistence
Flores, Tracey T.; Batista-Morales, Nathaly; Salmerón, Cori – Multicultural Perspectives, 2019
In this article, we describe the campus visit we organized for Latina girls (grades 6-12) that participated in Somos Escritoras/We Are Writers. Somos Escritoras is a creative space that invites Latina girls to explore their lives and examine their worlds through art, writing, and theater. We focus on the writing marathon we designed for our visit…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Creative Writing
Akunvabey, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Sound Business Inc. (SBI) has worked to improve college access for Black and Latino students at A. Philip Randolph (APR) High School in New York City for over twenty-five years. This Case Study provides an in-depth look at the relationship between an in-house non-profit organization and an NYC public high school. How does this non-traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
Smith, Karina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Latino/as are the fastest growing population in the United States and have the second lowest graduation rate among all demographics. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain a better understanding of the barriers affecting Latino/a success as well as exploring self-identified engagement strategies leading to Latino/a student first…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate, Case Studies, Agricultural Laborers
Ocasio-Jimenez, Priscilla Irma – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The graduation rates for Hispanic students in higher education are the lowest in the nation in comparison to any other subgroups, yet they are the fastest growing population in the nation. Lack of a rigorous curriculum in a K-12 setting and college readiness skills are factors. There needs to be a strong partnership among K-12 school districts and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Holding Power, Student Recruitment, Community Colleges
Hernandez, Arelis – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
The story of Latinas/os in higher education in the United States is often one of exclusion and erasure. In this essay, Arelis Hernandez argues that, from grade school to college, there is rarely an occasion for Latinas/os to learn their history and to produce scholarship based on their communities. Instead, they are pressured to subscribe to a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Hispanic Americans, Equal Education
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Olson, Richard – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2014
Many Latinos come to higher education as adults. One degree completion strategy that is particularly suited to adult students in higher education is prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA provides opportunities to evaluate a student's learning from work or life experience for the purpose of awarding college credit. For students whose…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Hispanic American Students, College Credits
Bejarano, Cynthia; Valverde, Michelle – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
In 2002, the New Mexico State University College Assistance Migrant Program (NMSU CAMP) was created to increase the number of baccalaureate degrees held by students from farmworker backgrounds by mediating structural impediments that typically normalize post-secondary inequities for this population. Migrant and seasonal farmworker students are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Migrants, Migrant Education, Migrant Programs
Boyer, Patricia G., Ed.; Davis, Dannielle Joy, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2013
The focus of "Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom" is faculty and students of color at postsecondary institutions and the racial challenges they encounter in college classrooms. To achieve this aim, the book highlights the voices of various racial/ethnic groups of faculty and students, including international…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racial Bias, Higher Education, Minority Group Students
Aguirre, Jarrad – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
Recent Yale alumnus Jarrad Aguirre relates his experience creating MAS Familias, a campus organization that supports Latino/a undergraduates studying math and science. Alarmed by Latino/a students' academic struggles and the lack of Latino/a role models in the fields of math and science--and increasingly aware of the social benefits of a diverse…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role Models, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Evans, Carol – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2009
This study offers a small, highly contextualized counter-example to several recent large-scale analyses depicting Latino underachievement in higher education (R. Fry, 2002; J. Immerwahr, 2003; S. Miller & E. Garcia, 2004; W. Swail, A. Cabrera, & C. Lee, 2004; W. S. Swail, K. E. Redd, & L. W. Perna, 2003). The purpose is to analyze…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mexican Americans, Educational Attainment, Federal Programs
Oseguera, Leticia; Locks, Angela M.; Vega, Irene I. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2009
Notwithstanding years of retention efforts, graduation rates of Latinas/os remain alarmingly low. The purpose of this review is threefold. First, the authors go beyond traditional theory and highlight those scholars who shed new information on retention for Latina/o students. Second, they summarize factors that specifically affect Latina/o…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Hispanic American Students, Educational Attainment, Academic Persistence