Nepantla Transgressions: Passageways, Conduits, and Connectors Towards HSI-STEM Transformation

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Abstract

Hispanic Serving Institutions are urgently called to engage in decolonizing and liberating practices to expand educational access for Latinx students. In recent decades, HSIs have strived to enact servingness to Latinx STEM students by offering specialized support services and bridging gaps of underrepresentation. In these HSI-STEM programs, leadership often fails to completely achieve servingness towards Latinx students. In this study, we expose several structural challenges experienced by Latina líderes in an HSI-STEM national program that hinder their servingness and advocacy for Latinx STEM student success. Aligned with efforts to liberate and decolonize HSIs, these Latina líderes engaged in nepantla transgressions, tools for enacting change and reimagining HSI-STEM servingness.

Authors

• Carlos A Fitch, University of California - Santa Barbara

• M. Magdalena Jimenez Aguilar, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Lucy Arellano, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Margarita Anahi Rodriguez, University of California - Santa Barbara