A Window of Opportunity: Building an Ethnic Studies Dual Enrollment Program in Pomona, CA

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This vice presidential session will present findings from a university-school collaboration that built and implemented an Ethnic Studies Dual Enrollment Program between Cal Poly Pomona and five high schools (Garey, Ganesha, Diamond Ranch, Fremont, and Pomona) in the Pomona Unified School District (PUSD), whose student body is 95% of color (U.S. News and World Report, 2025). The collaboration focused on increasing the number of college-eligible high school students from PUSD while increasing their college credits (via dual enrollment) that subsequently increased the PUSD’s College and Career Readiness (CCR) Index. Simultaneously, CA AB1460 (2020) required that all CSU students take an Ethnic Studies course (Area F).

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chair

• Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Papers

• A Research Informed Vision for an Ethnic Studies Dual Enrollment Program Collaboration - S. Terri Gomez, California Polytechnic State University

• Building and Sustaining Trust: Ethnic Studies Professional Development and Teacher Training - José Manuel Aguilar-Hernández, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

• Ethnic Studies High School Teacher Reflections on Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Impact - Arturo Molina, Pomona Unified School District; Rita Torres; Rene Ubom, Pomona Unified School District

Session Organizer

• Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Discussant

• Cati V. de los Rios, University of California - Berkeley