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Apoyo Sacrificial, Sacrificing Support: Understanding Undocumented Latina/o Parents’ Engagement in Students’ Post-Secondary Planning and Success
(2018-05-07)
Educational research has highlighted the importance of parental engagement in Latina/o students’ post-secondary planning and success; when parents develop their children’s college-going identities early, students are more ...
In the Storm’s Wake: Emergency Management at Tulane University After Hurricane Katrina
(2018-10-17)
In the last twenty years, some of the most high profile emergencies in the United States have occurred on college campuses. Accordingly, the ability to effectively manage large-scale crises has never been of greater ...
Mens et Manus et Singapura: Culture, Localization, and Institutional Identity in a Singaporean-American Higher Education Partnership
(2018-05-04)
Over the last few decades, the field of higher education has experienced a rise in the prevalence of cross-border higher education (CHBE) partnerships, including in student exchange, collaborative research, and development ...
Fostering Engagement: Toward a Student-Centered and Student-Directed Design for the Foster Care Initiative at Bennett College
(2018-05-03)
Every year, more than 20,000 youth in the United States exit foster care without securing a permanent family or placement (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Children's ...
Portraits of Resistance & Resilience: College Student Political Identity Development in the Context of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
(2018-05-09)
Fostering the development of an engaged citizenry is one of the founding principles of American higher education (Bok, 2006; Reuben, 1996). After decades of concern about declining civic engagement among American college ...
College Late Departure in the United States: Exploring the Scope and Cause of Dropout Among Students Who Are Close to Earning a Degree
(2018-04-25)
Although many U.S. college students drop out after their second year of school, research on withdrawal has mostly focused on early departure. As a result, late departure–the phenomenon whereby students leave after making ...
Strategic Recalibration for the Pathways to Prosperity Initiative: Transforming an Intermediary to Transform Cross-Sectoral Ecosystems
(2018-04-27)
I undertook my doctoral residency for Harvard’s Ed.L.D. program with Pathways Prosperity (PtoP), a five-year-old joint initiative with the Harvard Graduate School of Education that is housed within Jobs for the Future ...
Locked Up Means Locked Out: The Effects of the Federal Drug Laws of the 1980s and 1990s on Black Male Students’ College Enrollment
(2018-02-06)
While research documents that rates of college access and completion have increased during the past several decades, the trend data also reveal differences by race and gender, with Black men having lower levels of college ...
The Road to Strategic Renewal: Navigating the Distance Between Mission, Strategy, and Impact at the Center for Educational Leadership
(2018-04-30)
With the 2017-2018 school year came the full implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The act replaced No Child Left Behind (NCLB), transferring decision-making authority away from the federal government ...