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Beyond Enrollment: Latinx Belonging, Resilience, and Justice in Higher Education

Fri, April 10, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 4

Session Type: Paper Session

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This session explores how Latinx students navigate, survive, and transform higher education systems that often reproduce exclusion under the guise of inclusion. Across five studies spanning community colleges, HSIs, and research-intensive universities, presenters examine experiences of belonging, resilience, gender-based violence, and queer and cultural identity. Guided by frameworks such as Nepantla, Latinx Critical Theory, and Community Cultural Wealth, these papers highlight how Latinx students resist deficit narratives through community building, mentorship, and cultural affirmation. Collectively, they call for a reimagining of “servingness” in higher education—one that extends beyond enrollment numbers to center the wellbeing, intersectional realities, and collective power of Latinx students as knowledge producers and change agents within academic spaces.

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