ERIC Number: EJ1346639
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1086-4822
EISSN: EISSN-1536-0687
Queering the Query: A Call to HSI Community Colleges to Include LGBTQIA+ Latinx Students
Gonzalez, Ángel; Cataño, Yolanda
About Campus, v27 n1 p4-9 Mar-Apr 2022
Higher education demographics continue to shift, with students from various minoritized identities increasing in enrollment. Yet, retention, completion, and success rates remain scarce for these students. Current metrics uphold homophobic and transphobic binaries in the categorization of gender and sexualities prohibiting higher education institutions to capture the percentage of their student populations identifying amongst the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community. This issue is further amplified at community colleges. For the purpose of this piece, the authors want to call attention to both the LGBTQIA+ and Latina/o community, the LatinX community. They examine the way in which current data collection tools fail to analyze students through an intersectional lens, which is key and needed to equitably respond to their needs. The authors recommend that Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) leaders begin by including demographic metrics that are inclusive of an array of gender and sexual identities when they initiate activities for HSI grant-funded services and programs.
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Needs, Sexual Identity, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, School Role, Racism, College Environment, Leadership Responsibility, School Policy, Inclusion
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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