Download or read book Latinx Graduate Students Experiences written by Iliana Limas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: As Latinx students navigate higher education it is vital to understand how they negotiate their multiple identities (i.e. cultural and academic culture) and how that negotiation affects a student’s educational experience. The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand and examine Latinx graduate students’ experiences as they navigated higher education. A key aspect of the current study was to capture personal narratives through a qualitative approach and focus on shared themes among participants. This study examined the experiences of 9 Latinx graduate students currently pursuing a Master’s degree in an attempt to address the following questions: (a) how do Latinx graduate students negotiate cultural and educational identities as they pursue higher education? (b) what are the effects of this negotiation on Latinx graduate students? The results confirmed that family is a crucial aspect of a Latinx graduate students experience. The three themes that emerged were: (a) managing roles and familial expectations (b) negotiation techniques and (c) coping responses. Familial support, valuing education, and understanding the trade-offs of pursuing an education were significant themes in how Latinx graduate students managed roles and expectations. Biculturalism and deviating from gender norms were common ways Latinx graduate students negotiated their identities as they pursued higher education. Lastly, communication, code-switching, and guilt were often ways that students coped with these negotiation techniques. Results of the study suggest that a Latinx graduate resource center, family graduate student orientations, and expanding on diversifying teaching faculty representation in graduate programs would greatly benefit Latinx graduate students in persisting and completing their graduate studies.
Download or read book The Latinx Guide to Graduate School written by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current Latinx graduate students in the humanities and social sciences fields with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced-degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education that impact Latinx students, demystifying and clarifying the essential requirements for navigating graduate school that Latinx students may not know because they are often the first in their families to walk that path. Topics range from identifying the purpose of graduate research, finding the right program, and putting together a strong application to developing a graduate student identity, cultivating professional and personal relationships, and mapping out a post--graduate school career. The book also includes resources for undocumented students. Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, manifesto, and academic musing, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective that speaks to the unique Latinx graduate student experience.
Download or read book Getting to Graduate School written by Alfred Lopez (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Very little ethnographic work has been completed with Latinx graduate students, who are among the most marginalized groups on college campuses in the US. Latinx graduate students remain under-studied within the literature in two ways. First, they have been deemed “successful” by the university in terms of outcome-based indices (e.g., they have attained a college degree). Second, the fact that Latinx are not achieving degrees at the same rate as other ethnic minority groups keeps the focus of research on undergraduates. However, graduate students offer a unique perspective to studies regarding Latinx persistence and academic success. Despite the challenges the group faces in higher education, Latinx continue to navigate postsecondary institutions and develop successful strategies in the process. Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study explores what the process of getting to graduate school looks like for nine first- and second-generation Latinx graduates. Drawing from critical race theory, this study argues that academic persistence for Latinx college students should be formulated as a culmination of small successes that ultimately build toward not only degree attainment but the pursuit of graduate school.
Download or read book Latinx a os in Higher Education written by Angela E. Batista and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores topics relevant to the experience of Latinx/a/o students and professionals in higher education and illustrates key elements that should be considered in the development of varied pathways for success"--
Download or read book The Latina o Pathway to the Ph D written by Jeanett Castellanos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latina/o population constitutes the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. and is disproportionately under-represented in college and in graduate programs. This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D. The under-education of Latina/o youth begins early. Given that by twelfth grade half will stop out or be pushed out of high school, and only seven percent will complete a college degree, it is not surprising so few enter graduate studies. When Latina/o students do enter higher education, few attend those colleges or universities that are gateways to graduate degrees. Regardless of the type of higher education institution they attend, Latinas/os often encounter social and academic isolation, unaffordable costs, and lack of support.This historic under-representation has created a vicious cycle of limited social and economic mobility. There is a paucity of the Latina/o faculty and leaders whom research shows are essential for changing campus climate and influencing institutions to adapt to the needs of a changing student body. As a result, Latina/o graduate students often have few role models, advocates or mentors, and limited support for their research agendas.By reviewing the pipeline from kindergarten through university, this book provides the needed data and insights to effect change for policy makers, administrators, faculty, and staff; and material for reflection for aspiring Latina/o Ph.D.s on the paths they have taken and the road ahead.The book then addresses the unique experiences and challenges faced by Latina/os in doctoral programs, and offers guidance for students and those responsible for them. Chapters cover issues of gender and generational differences, the role of culture in the graduate school, mentorship, pursuing research, and professional development opportunities for Latina/os.The book closes with the voices of by Latina/o students who are currently pursuing or recently completed their doctoral degree. These narratives describe their cultural and educational journeys, providing insight into their personal and professional experiences. These stories bring alive the graduate experience for anyone interested in successful recruitment, retention, and graduation of Latina/o doctoral students – an inspiration and guidance to those aspiring to the doctorate.
Download or read book Hispanic Serving Institutions HSIs in Practice written by Gina Ann Garcia and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), which are not-for-profit, degree granting postsecondary institutions that enroll at least 25% Latinxs, also grows, with 523 institutions now meeting the enrollment threshold to become HSIs. But as they increase in number, the question remains: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? This edited book, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs, fills an important gap in the literature. It features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining “servingness” in practice at HSIs. Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centers Latinx ways of knowing and being, with the goal of providing transformative experiences that lead to both academic and non-academic outcomes. In this book, practitioners tell their stories of success in defining servingness at HSIs. Specifically, they provide empirical and practical evidence of the results and outcomes of federally funded HSI grants, including those funded by Department of Education Title III and V grants. This edited book is ideal for higher education practitioners and scholars searching for best practices for HSIs in the United States. Administrators at HSIs, including presidents, provosts, deans, and boards of trustees, will find the book useful as they seek out ways to effectively serve Latinx and other minoritized students. Faculty who teach in higher education graduate programs can use the book to highlight practitioner engaged scholarship. Legislators and policy advocates, who fight for funding and support for HSIs at the federal level, can use the book to inform and shape a research-based Latinx educational policy agenda. The book is essential as it provides a framework that simplifies the complex phenomenon known as servingness. As HSIs become more significant in the U.S. higher education landscape, books that provide empirically based, practical examples of servingness are necessary.
Download or read book High Achieving Latino Students written by Susan J. Paik and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Achieving Latino Students: Successful Pathways Toward College and Beyond addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. While much of the existing research works from a deficit lens, this book uses a strength-based approach to support Latino achievement. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, this unique book provides research-based recommendations from early to later school years on “what works” for supporting high achievement. Praise for High-Achieving Latino Students "This book focuses on an important issue about which we know little. There are many lessons here for both scholars and educators who believe that Latino students can succeed. I congratulate the authors for taking on this timely and significant topic." ~ Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D., Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor in Education, Stanford University. Author of Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools "This is a must-read book for leaders in institutions of both K-12 and higher education who want to better understand success factors of Latino students in the US. Using a strength-based framework to understand and support Latino achievement is a new paradigm that must be considered by all." ~ Loui Olivas, Ed.D., President, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education "In addition to being the right book at the right time, these editors should be congratulated for giving us a stellar example of how a research-practice collaboration comes together to produce such a valuable and lasting contribution to the field of school reform and improvement. Those who work in schools, universities, think tanks and policymaking centers have been waiting anxiously for this kind of book, and it’s now here." ~ Carl A. Cohn, Ed.D., Former Executive Director, California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, CA State Board of Education member, and Superintendent "There may not be a silver bullet for solving the so-called problem of Latino underachievement, but well-conceived solutions do exist. This powerful book offers strength- and asset-based frameworks that demonstrate Latino achievement is possible. Read this text to not only get informed, but to also get nurtured and inspired!" ~ Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Professor in Education, University of Texas at Austin. Author of Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
Download or read book Meaningful Experiences in Graduate School Among Hispanic Latino Chicano Faculty who Attained Their Ph D written by Esteban Alejandro Renaud and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose of the study . The purpose of this research was to learn and understand what meaningful experiences Hispanics/Latinos/Chicanos who had who had attained their Ph. D.'s state as most salient and significant in their lives throughout graduate school. Viewing the issue through a thematic analysis, typical experiences, main ideas, and other central points emerged as critical experiences and factors that identified where graduate student experiences were most meaningful. Ultimately, they will help define what Hispanic/Latino/Chicano students need that work together in order to get them to succeed in graduate school. Interviewing . Open-ended interviews were used to collect the data. This format allowed the participants to answer freely and openly about what they thought was most salient and meaningful as they proceeded through graduate school that was necessary to obtain a Ph. D. The interviewing format style and analysis were accomplished following protocol standards set forth by Lincoln & Guba (1985). Procedure . The interviews were undertaken at a mid-sized, West Coast University. The participants were chosen using a purposeful sampling technique.
Download or read book Latina Students Experiences in Public Schools written by Susan McCullough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school. Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of gender, gender discrimination, and gender relations in the context of post-feminism, and in view of widespread claims that advocacy for girls and women has been outmoded by anti-discriminatory legislation. Drawing on an ethnographic study that focuses on gender segregation and dominance, relational identities, and the role of teachers in reinforcing gender dynamics, the text deftly demonstrates the effect of postfeminist policy and ideology on gender equity and achievement in public schools. In particular, the text illustrates that young Latina women continue to face both physical and verbal harassment on a daily basis, which is often overlooked by school faculty and administrators. A powerful and timely text, the volume advocates for action to counter school-based gender discrimination. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, policy makers, libraries in the field of gender and sexuality in education, gender studies, secondary education and urban education.
Download or read book Standing on the Outside Looking In written by Mary F. Howard-Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to the literature on the impact of post-secondary institutions on undergraduate institutions, the literature on the academic experiences of graduate students from underrepresented populations is comparatively meager.This book remedies this gap by gathering a rich collection of personal narratives and empirical research to provide a comprehensive account of the actual lived experiences of graduate students of color and their perception of the campus climate.This volume examines issues of access, retention, and transition; and explores the personal experiences of students of color in advanced-degree programs. The contributors cover issues such as financial aid; the culture, mission and racial climate at doctoral granting institutions; the transitional challenges STEM undergraduates face on entering graduate programs; mentoring; the distinct concerns and challenges that African, Asian and Latina/o students encounter in doctoral and professional programs; and the need to acknowledge and support their spirituality.Franklin Tuitt concludes the book by summarizing the issues raised, and making recommendations to faculty, administrators, and directors of graduate programs about what they can do to promote the well-being and success of graduate students of color.
Download or read book En Comunidad written by Carla Espana and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides practical help for undoing the deficit perspective that is frequently applied to Latinx bilingual students. This deficit perspective limits educators from getting to know bilingual learners and has lasting effects on children's self-concept, socio-emotional growth and academic development. As emergent bilingual Latinx children become the majority in PK-12 schools, and as Latinx communities face increasing socio-political hostility, it is urgent that we shift to teaching practices that honor the knowledge students engage every day across different contexts. Schooling impacts how societal norms are reproduced, contested or reimagined, and the lessons, along with the pedagogical framework that we present in this book, can create that opportunity to fully embrace the ways we can connect with our students and have an impact beyond the classroom. This book offers lessons with a decolonized bilingual sustaining pedagogy approach: a culturally sustaining topic having to do with language practices, literacies, and power texts that show different ways we engage with language practices translanguaging (using all of one's linguistic repertoire, this includes different features of named languages such as Spanish and English) as the way bilingual students communicate, the way we teach, and the way we strive for social justice"--
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring written by David A. Clutterbuck and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring provides a scholarly, comprehensive and critical overview of mentoring theory, research and practice across the world. Internationally renowned authors map out the key historical and contemporary research, before considering modern case study examples and future directions for the field. The chapters are organised into four areas: The Landscape of Mentoring The Practice of Mentoring The Context of Mentoring Case Studies of Mentoring Around the Globe This Handbook is a resource for mentoring academics, students and practitioners across a range of disciplines including business and management, education, health, psychology, counselling, and social work.
Download or read book High School Latinx Counternarratives written by Juan A. Ríos Vega and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Latino Critical Theory (LatCrit) and Queers of Color Epistemologies as a theoretical framework, this book analyzes the personal experiences of Latinx during and after finishing high school.
Download or read book Mi Voz Mi Vida written by Andrew C. Garrod and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds—they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context—Dartmouth College—often very different from their childhood ones.
Download or read book Latinx College Student Experiences The Value of BAIT in Persistence written by Kerry Lynn Spicer and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of Latinx graduates who had interactions with professionals represented in the Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Team (BAIT) at a small, private college during their undergraduate experience. While BAITs on college campuses can be effective intervention during emergent situations, they can also be used to intervene when a student is struggling. With changing demographics on college campuses, BAITs have an opportunity to provide focus for the best strategies for Latinx students. By interviewing Latinx college graduates from a smaller sized institution, through phenomenological discovery, the researcher worked with the emerging themes to explore the following questions: (1) How do Latinx graduates describe the essence of their lived experiences with BAIT professionals in college? (2) How do Latinx graduates describe their lived experience of persistence to graduation? (3) How do Latinx graduates describe the factors that contributed to their persistence to graduation? Semi-structured, one-on-one interviews and the collection of artifacts recorded the experiences of five Latinx graduates as they reflected on their collegiate experiences. Data analysis using qualitative, thematic coding revealed themes of family connections, complexity of identity, and connections to campus. These themes identified how participants were shaped by familial relationships, how identity shaped their experiences, and how community was created during their time in college. The reflections of these graduates shaped the findings of this study and guided suggestions for best practices for supporting Latinx college students in their persistence to graduation.
Download or read book Understanding the Latinx Experience written by Vasti Torres and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latino presence continues to grow in traditional population enclaves and has tripled in areas that are not traditionally associated with this pan-ethnic group. The dramatic growth of this population in the U.S. requires a considerably deeper understanding of individuals that share this multifaceted identity. This timely book synthesizes new research and its implications for practice that is critical for professionals working with Latinos in educational and counseling contexts. The authors provide insight into identity development, environmental influences, and how these factors influence persistence in higher education. By using a synthesis approach to organize multiple studies around how being Latinx influences the experiences of students in college and beyond, the authors offer a holistic view of the Latino population. Each chapter uses mixed method data points to highlight the experiences of this growing population and provide helpful insights for those who work with Latinx individuals within higher education and community settings. The new Lifespan Model of Latinx Ethnic Identity Development constitutes a framework to consider the development and tensions experienced by Latinos as they engage with the various cultures represented within U.S. society. The studies presented in this book provide an evidence-based understanding how environmental differences may produce differing levels of development for college students and how change in environments produce reflective refinement of adult Latinx identity. Practitioners will learn about practices that help Latinx college students. Faculty and researchers will gain new understandings of the Latinx experience, and discover a starting point for further reflection and investigation.
Download or read book A Journey Into the Lived Experiences of Latina Graduate Students written by Lisa May Palacios and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the lived experiences of Latinas in a master's educational leadership program located in South Texas within the context of a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution. In particular, this study helps to understand the lived experiences of enrolled Latina students at the master's level. Narrative case and study and grounded feminist and cultural study theory were used to investigate five Latina participants who took part in in-depth interviews to provide a full picture and description of their day to day happenings in their graduate programs and beyond. This study also described in-depth through dialogue and historical narratives the "transformation" these women made through their testimonias with me as witness. These in-depth interviews covered a range of topics including their academic, personal, and professional interactions to gain a full understanding of balancing multiple demands, as well as exploring the support networks to persist towards degree obtainment and future goals and plans. The following themes emerged from their narratives and were credited for their success: family support, faculty and advisor support, personal sacrifices, professional development, and resistance to sexist and racist incidences. In addition, the unique themes of "quiet guilt" and health sacrifices will be explored. Lastly, these five women are currently champions for marginalized students and embody the character of advocates for social justice.
