Category: Current Projects

This project examines how shifting federal policies disrupt the educational pathways of undocumented and international college students. Using evidence-based research and focus groups, it identifies institutional policies and practices to mitigate these disruptions and develops a national engagement plan with tools and guidance for colleges to respond effectively to immigration-related challenges affecting students with precarious …

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This project investigates how Higher Education Institutional Agents (HEIAs)—college and university administrators such as presidents, vice presidents, admissions officers, and multicultural affairs staff—are making sense of and responding to this rapidly shifting legal and political landscape. HEIAs play a critical role in shaping equitable access and success for historically marginalized students, yet face mounting constraints …

Read more “Justice Deferred: Higher Education Institutional Agents’ Sensemaking in the Wake of Affirmative Action’s Demise”

This investigation explores how institutional agents in higher education make meaning of their roles as implementers of public and institutional policies that influence the educational access and success of minoritized students in the United States.

This quantitative research project examined the mental health and college persistence of undocumented and immigrant college students in the U.S. It focused on the impact of immigration status, cultural stress, and campus climate, aiming to inform institutional support and policies in higher education.

Investigation focusing on two contexts, family and educational contexts, and adolescents’ psychosocial development in shaping undocumented and DACAmented adolescents’ educational pathways in Michigan.

Investigation exploring the college-going culture of high schools and college choice process of high school students in Hartford. It examines those perspectives of 34 high school seniors, 14 high school institutional agents, and 4 community-based organization staff members.

Cross-state analysis examining how community college administrators’ personal beliefs and professional values and perceptions as policy implementers in relation to implementing state and institutional policies that affect undocumented students.

This investigation is exploring various factors that shape students’ college choice process. It is employing High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) to examine the role individual and ecological factors have in high school students’ college choice process.