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Whittington Goodwin; Laurie A. Schreiner – Christian Higher Education, 2024
Black and Latino men are attending college at higher rates than ever before, yet their increased access has not led to increased success, as Black and Latino men face greater barriers to their success than do White and Asian men. The challenges to timely graduation for these populations are even greater at Christian colleges. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: African American Students, Latin Americans, Males, Christianity
Danielle Troy Stroughton Duncan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Sadly, an enduring legacy of the United States is inequities between groups of people based on their skin color. These inequities are ingrained within the educational system, such as a lack of opportunities and interventions and significant gaps in support and resources that target underserved populations. The problem that this study addressed was…
Descriptors: African American Students, Latin Americans, Undergraduate Students, Barriers
Henedina Tavares – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the last two decades, dual credit programs have emerged as viable pathways to postsecondary completion. Despite their potential, these programs remain largely untapped by high school students and their families who experience historical and ongoing educational injustices. This study explores the racialized organizational dynamics at a rural…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Migrant Workers, Dual Enrollment, Rural Schools
Diaz-Strong, Daysi Ximena – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
Knowledge on the transition to adulthood of undocumented immigrants arriving in childhood primarily derives from the experiences of minors arriving below the age of 13 years--or the 1.5 generation. The transition to adulthood of the 1.25 generation--those who immigrate between the ages of 13 and 17 years--has been largely missed. This article…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Undocumented Immigrants, Adolescents, Latin Americans
Abigail Garcia Patton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Latinx students constitute the fastest and largest growing segment of the population in California community colleges (CCCs), with roughly 45% of students identified as Latinx. Yet Latinx representation among faculty and administrators lags behind, with very modest gains in representation in the faculty and academic administrator ranks (Bates et…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Minority Serving Institutions, Community Colleges, College Presidents
Stephanie M. Breen; Nicole Brunt; Terry Vaughan III – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2024
This report investigates the multifaceted value of postsecondary education for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students, particularly those involved in federally funded TRIO programs. Amid growing concerns over student debt and the perceived worth of higher education, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of both the economic and non-economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minority Group Students, African American Students, Latin Americans
Ana Contreras – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2024
This critical ethnographic study explores a participatory action research group consisting of Latin American immigrant mothers seeking to involve their community in school decision-making. Drawing from "pedagogies of acompañamiento", I describe how the mothers responded to decision-making challenges and leveraged reflections on their…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Mothers, Immigrants, Psychological Patterns
April Mazón – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A considerable gap exists in understanding the educational and career trajectories of Latina students attending rural postsecondary institutions. Although the number of rural students entering college has increased, their experiences and the factors influencing their academic success and future careers have been largely overlooked. Research on…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Females, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Cynthia Carolina Terán López; Christina Convertino – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this essay, Cynthia Carolina Terán López and Christina Convertino present a new mentoring model for Latina doctoral students, the echémonos flores mentoring model (FEMM), which draws on the ideas of new tribalism and nos/otras in Gloria Anzaldúa's post-Borderlands work and the praxis of pláticas, or conversations, and testimonios to decenter…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Females, Hispanic Americans, Doctoral Students
Khaseem F. Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The path to a postsecondary education is often constrained by barriers that are systemic and debilitating for Black and Latino males who are low-income and the first in their families to attend college. Barriers such as poverty and lack of access to quality educational resources often have adverse effects on their postsecondary pursuits. These…
Descriptors: College Students, African Americans, Latin Americans, Males
Pilar Mendoza – Review of Higher Education, 2024
Using an international research center initiative, the purpose of this article is to illustrate how activist research can be fertile ground for academic theorization and provide a framework for those interested in activist scholarship, especially for women faculty of Latin American origins in U.S. institutions. I elaborate on how activist…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Activism, Scholarship, Research
Martha A. Castillo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the challenges and support systems impacting the success and perseverance of first-generation Latina college students. It emphasizes the critical role of family involvement and the cultural wealth within their communities, which have been overlooked in prior research. Utilizing interviews with first-generation Latina…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Females, First Generation College Students, Family Involvement
Diaz-Strong, Daysi Ximena; Gonzales, Roberto G. – Child Development Perspectives, 2023
Undocumented immigrants arriving in the United States as minors navigate tremendous constraints as they transition into adolescence and adulthood. Exclusionary immigration laws profoundly shape and complicate the attainment of important milestones and the decisions undocumented minors make about their adult futures. A significant body of research,…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Latin Americans, Migrants, Public Policy
Ivan DeJesus Alvarez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
According to multiple studies, a referral process bias exists in the early identification of autism for children of color, in particular Latino children. Sociocultural, economic, educational, and health care barriers have significantly impacted Latino children. For example, Latino children are less likely to receive access to early intervention…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Spanish Speaking, Barriers, Special Education
Cooperative Learning, Engagement and Achievement in Developmental Reading: A Basic Qualitative Study
Judith F. Diamond – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adult learners from the Caribbean diaspora continue to enroll in American colleges as they seek to improve their academic ambitions. As they do, they utilize varying instructional strategies to assist in achieving their educational goals, one of which is cooperative learning. While cooperative learning is widely used across different age groups…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adults, College Students, Educational Strategies