Exploring the College Choice of Latinx Students in Rural Texas

• In Event: Rural Students and College Access

Abstract

Latinx rural students are highly underrepresented in research and college enrollment. Using an Ecological Systems Theory and a Culture of Community Wealth framework, this study explores how high aspirations, familial proximity, distrust of the outside world, and familial self-assigned obligations exacerbated by poverty, influences Texas Latinx rural students college choice.

Authors

• Juan Lopez, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Glenda Droogsma Musoba, Texas A&M University - College Station