Division J Vice Presidential Session: Challenging Colonial College Access for Historically Marginalized Student Populations: Toward Decolonizing College Choice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel challenges traditional perspectives used to research college access and choice that fail to account for the colonial schooling structures (Patel, 2015) and racist neoliberal education policies (Stovall, 2016) experienced by historically marginalized student populations. This panel uses interdisciplinary lenses to examine the role of power within college access. The session entails presentations that challenge deficit notions of Indigenous, Latinx, and Undocumented student postsecondary pathways through asset-based theoretical frameworks and/or empirical research studies. The discussion will highlight that Asian American students, Black students, Students with dis/abilities and other student groups must also be acknowledged within such a session. In other words, the groups discussed here are not totalizing, but rather specific.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 2a: College Student Access

Chair

• Frances Contreras, University of California - San Diego

Papers

• Unsettling College Choice Through Writing - Nora Cisneros, UCLA

• Indigenizing the College Choice Discussion - Amanda R. Tachine, Arizona State University - Tempe

• "Neither From Here nor There": Recent Immigrant Indigenous Youth and Unaccompanied Minors Navigating College Access - Yanira Madrigal-Garcia, University of California - Davis

• Contextualized College Choices: Examining Intersectionality Within College Conocimiento - Nancy Acevedo-Gil, California State University - San Bernardino

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago