Leveraging the R in HSRIs: Research for Educational Equity at a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (Table 1)

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 2:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium explores how Hispanic Serving Research Institutions can leverage research conducted with community-engaged university partners on sense of belonging, relationships, and intersectional experiences of students of color to enact institutional change across university policies and practices. Through four papers, our session spotlights research from our home institution that is multidisciplinary, mixed-method which enhances the HSRIs student programming and intersectional servingness for Latinx/e and other students of color. Our findings highlight our home institution as a site of higher education where critical, community-engaged research examines institutional support for and barriers to fostering intersectional servingness that recognizes the interlocked systems of oppression that shape student of color campus experiences and the institution’s responsibility to create more equitable educational pathways.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Latina/o/x Research Issues

Chair

• Saskias Casanova, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Harm Reduction Education Among Latinx College Students at a Hispanic Serving Research Institution (HSRI) - Betsy Centeno, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Navigating Transitions: Enhancing Support for Undocumented Transfer Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions - Valeria Jacqueline Alonso Blanco, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Fostering Sense of Belonging through an Undergraduate Research Scholars Program for Transfers at an HSRI - Saskias Casanova, University of California - Santa Cruz

• TikTok Counterspaces as Learning Communities for Latine/x LGBTQ+ college students - Gloriana Lopez-Leon, University of California - Santa Cruz