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Beyond Metrics: Servingness, Linguistic Justice, and Culturally Rooted Praxis in Higher Education
Wed, April 8, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2Session Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This session brings together five qualitative studies that interrogate and reimagine the meaning of “servingness” at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), centering Latinx students’ cultural, linguistic, and emotional assets as foundations for equity and transformation. Across diverse contexts—from environmental STEM classrooms in the Rio Grande Valley to mentoring networks, institutional spaces, and leadership narratives—each paper foregrounds Latinx agency, resilience, and conocimiento as counterforces to deficit-based models and enrollment-driven metrics.
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Hispanic Students as Environmental Scientists: Culturally Sustaining STEM Pathways Through Raíces y Ciencia - Uma Maheshwari Ganesan, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Mentoring with a Mindful Approach among Latinx STEM Faculty and Students at an HSI - Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University; Maryanne Long, University of Texas - El Paso; Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University
More Than Enrollment: Examining Institutional Spaces, Identity, and Mental Health at an HSI - Amber Michelle Gonzalez, California State University - Sacramento; Kevin Ferreira van Leer, University of Connecticut; Maria Guadalupe Razo-Soto, California State University - Sacramento; Claudia L Gonzalez, California State University - Sacramento; Darlis Pantoja-Benavides, University of Connecticut; Noah Sebastian Gomez, California State University - Sacramento
Reimagining Culturally-Affirming Spaces at Hispanic Serving Institutions by Building on Students’ Ventajas y Conocimientos - Lupita Romo-González, University of California - Santa Barbara
Translanguaging in Liderazgo: Linguistic Flexibility as Servingness - Margarita Anahi Rodriguez, University of California - Santa Barbara; Lucy Arellano, University of California - Santa Barbara; Carlos A Fitch, University of California - Santa Barbara; Maritza Ordaz, University of California - Santa Barbara; M. Magdalena Jimenez Aguilar, University of California - Santa Barbara