Within the literature, there is a lack of consensus on what resilience means, including whether it is a personal trait or a process, and a paucity of studies that have specifically focused on resilient gay Latino men within an educational context. Furthermore, there are limitations in waves of resilience research, particularly the overlooking of…

In the United States, Latin@s remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce despite being a growing population in postsecondary institutions and across the country. Mentorship is needed to foster agency and leadership to build more Latin@ representation in STEM. In this study, we used a focus group and interviews to examine the mentee and mentor…

Undocumented students face numerous hardships in their pursuit of higher education. Those who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program experience some improved college access and tuition affordability, but many administrative and financial barriers continue to impede their educational pursuits. This qualitative work…

Using critical discourse analysis, we research how study abroad programs within U.S. universities create and reinforce discourses on the nature of higher education, citizenship, socioeconomic equity, and globalization. We analyze the content of advertising for education abroad programs that describe the myriad of destinations and opportunities…

"Coloniality" refers to the patterns of power relations resulting from colonialism that shape racial and ethnic groups' experiences in diverse ways. Although it is known that coloniality influences higher education's physical, symbolic, and social spaces, negatively affecting Latinxs' college attainment, less research has been conducted…

Queer student affairs professionals of color serve as key institutional agents who support students with marginalized identities and backgrounds, especially queer students of color. While institutions of higher education often create opportunities for employment, queer student affairs professionals of color exist and labor at the organizational…

This article asserts whiteness as an ideology that reaches beyond race/racism to shape and reproduce other interlocking oppressive systems. In higher education, this notion of whiteness permeates commonly celebrated "high impact practices" (HIPs) to undermine the success of trans* students in US postsecondary education. Through an…

Critical service learning requires that students grapple with power even as they negotiate with discourses that frame service as transformative for others, without the reciprocal effect of service learners being transformed. To highlight microprocesses in power, this article uses figured worlds to explore the positional identities of service…

Over the last ten years, there has been an increasingly growing body of scholarship devoted to undocumented college students in higher education. Prior scholarship has focused on how undocumented students negotiate their political and civic identity within the undocumented youth movement. However, immigration research within higher education has…

As the United States population approaches a minority majority, the need to address educational inequities is intensified, especially for Latin@ students who are among the fastest growing ethnic minority group across the United States and at four-year colleges and universities. Concerns for educational equity also demand broadening participation…

From private to public, from small to large, campus protests and demonstrations have risen across the country to address institutional racism regarding a range of issues including offensive Halloween costumes, university/college seals, lack of faculty color, and racist vandalism. One such example occurred at Southwest University where Native…

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Hispanics" comprise only 4% of the full-time faculty in U.S. universities, although Latin@s comprise 16.4% of the U.S. population. Given the under-representation of Latin@ faculty, efforts to support and retain them are paramount. Recently a small body of literature has surfaced explicitly…

This investigation employs Disability Critical Race Studies as a theoretical framework to determine the interdependence of racism and ableism in school settings. African American male students with learning disabilities are queried about their interpretations of special education placement and labeling while attempting to secure educational…

Primarily drawing from the Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligences (Carrillo, 2013), this article examines how working class Latino male college students in North Carolina navigate multiple cultural worlds and excel academically. This work addresses current gaps in the literature that largely fail to unpack the experiences of academically successful…

Sexual-minority college students continue to experience heterosexism in the form of heterosexist and biased language from peers. Religion has been identified as a predictor of sexual prejudice among college students. Yet there is limited research on the intersection of race, religion, and heterosexism, and on interventions designed to address this…