Minority Serving Institutions. The Role of HSIs in Cultivating a Critical Mass of Latinx and Teachers of Color: The Case of California

• In Event: AERA Teachers of Color Handbook Session 1

Abstract

Utilizing secondary outcome data from K-12 school districts and the California State University (CSU) System, a large HSI public university system in California, this chapter seeks to understand the distinct role that HSI’s are playing in graduating teachers of color to serve California schools, a state with one of the most diverse student populations in the U.S. Critical policy (Rodriguez, 2013) and community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005) frameworks are used to re-conceptualize the production and investment in Latinx teachers by the State of California, and the role of policy in altering the limited pipeline of future Latinx teachers. This chapter expands our knowledge of the impact of an HSI system on issues of teacher shortage and graduate student diversity.

Authors

• Maria Veronica Oropeza Fujimoto, California State University - Los Angeles

• Frances Contreras, University of California - Irvine

• Agustin Cervantes, California State University - Los Angeles