Utilizing Graduate Student Voice to Ensure Educational Possibilities: Learning and Leading During a Pandemic

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Enactment of Equitable Leadership in Postsecondary Contexts (Table 5)

Abstract

Over the past 3 years our country and the world have faced a global pandemic. A group of graduate educational leadership students, currently serving in leadership roles and growing their own leadership practices, were entrenched in serving students across the educational pathway from PK-20 while trying to learn to become even better leaders themselves. It is imperative leaders of schools of education graduate programs recognize their role in ensuring culturally proficient programs to support graduate students’ retention and completion especially considering the data regarding graduate student persistence and achievement. The graduate student achievement gap requires those in leadership to recognize and understand the barriers within the higher education system to create policy and practices ensuring graduate student persistence.

Authors

• Theresa A. Meyerott, California State University - Los Angeles

• Rochelle N. Smarr, University of California - San Diego

• Amanda Corona, California State University - San Marcos

• Claudia J. Pena, University of California - San Diego

• Sinai Cota, University of California - San Diego

• Sade Burrell, University of Southern California

• Paul Hadjipieris, University of California - San Diego