Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Lidia Herrera-Rocha, Helena Muciño Guerra
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Abstract
Drawing on ethnographic methods, this study employed a community cultural wealth framework to analyze the successful trajectories of 27 Latinx engineering/computer science students at a research-intensive HSI. Our findings uncovered four types of community cultural wealth leveraged by participants—aspirational, linguistic, social, and navigational—as well as one additional form of capital: positional. The study has implications for institutions and individuals who serve Latinx students in engineering and STEM more broadly.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education is an educational administration journal with cross-over into Latino culture studies as well as management, marketing, political science, and, of course, higher education. Topics will include: corporate culture at Hispanic-Serving Institutions; financial aid and graduation rates; retention strategies at Hispanic-Serving secondary institutions; Hispanic involvement in college and university athletics; Hispanic graduation rates among disciplines; organization development in Hispanic-serving institutions; curricular issues; demographic shifts and student government; technology and family values; teaching strategies; retention models; recruiting models; faculty development.