Resiste - Research & Equity Scholarship Insititute

01/07/2025

✨ Happy RESISTE Team Tuesday ✊🏽❤️
Today, we’d like to highlight our Senior Research Analyst, Griselda Paredes-Chavez! Last fall, Griselda advanced to candidacy (officially ABD) in the Joint Doctoral Program in Education at SDSU and Claremont Graduate University with her dissertation project, “Student-Led Servingness: The Transformational Impact of Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions.” 🎉🎓
Griselda’s research highlights the powerful contributions of students who play an important role in Latine/x servingness at HSIs. Her dedication and vision continue to inspire our team as we work toward meaningful transformation in HSI STEM pathways and beyond.
Congratulations, Griselda! We are so proud to celebrate this milestone and look forward to the incredible contributions your dissertation will make! 💡📚

01/01/2025

📚✨ Happy New Year! We’re thrilled to wrap up 2024 on a high note with the publication of our book chapter, Collaborative STEM Servingness: Advancing Student Success at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges!

Authored by , , , and , this chapter highlights the impactful HSI-STEM collaborations of Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

A huge thanks to and editors Jocelyn A. Gutierrez, Rosa M. Banda, Nikola Grafnetterova, Alonzo M. Flowers III, and Jarett T. Lujan for curating this book Student Success, and Intersectionality at Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Policy and Practice.

Let’s celebrate this milestone as we head into 2025, continuing to champion equity, STEM Servingness, and collaboration in higher education!

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12/19/2024

📚✨ Congrats to Student Spotlight SDSU Ed.D. student and community college faculty member Suganya Sankaranarayanan. Dr. Herrera is honored to serve as her dissertation chair and mentor as she strives to create lasting change. 🌟

Read more about Suganya’s inspiring journey in the latest issue of Informed & Inspired: 🔗 Link in bio!

12/19/2024

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 We’re thrilled to share that Senior Research Analyst and doctoral candidate, Griselda Paredes-Chavez, has been recognized by the SDSU College of Education’s Student Difference Makers Research Support Program! 🏆✨
This award highlights Griselda’s incredible research emphasizing the vital contributions of student leaders in advancing the mission of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to intentionally serve their Latine/x students. 💡📚
Learn more about this well-deserved honor and the impact of her work: 🔗 Link in bio!
Let’s celebrate Griselda’s dedication to making a difference! 🎉👏

10/24/2024

🎉 A huge congratulations to Dr. Felisha Herrera Villarreal on her recent feature in the Taos News! 🙌🏽 Her inspiring journey, from being a first-generation college student to becoming a trailblazer in STEM higher education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions, is truly remarkable. 🌟

We’re so proud of your continued impact on students and higher education, Dr. Herrera Villarreal! ✊🏽❤️

10/14/2024

🚨 Now Hiring! 🚨 SDSU College of Education is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in Quantitative Research Methods to join our faculty! This is a unique tenure-track position with opportunities for research, teaching, and consulting across departments. 📊📚

🌟 Start Date: August 2025
📆 Review begins: November 15, 2024
🖥️ Apply via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/156881 (LINK IN BIO)

Join us in shaping the future of education through innovative research and teaching!

10/02/2024

Congratulations Felisha Herrera Villarreal on your recent selection as fellow for the HACU - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Leadership Academy / La Academia de Liderazgo. Check out this article on Dr. Herrera Villarreal’s leadership journey.

Congratulations to Felisha Herrera Villarreal on being named a fellow in the HACU - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Leadership Academy! HACU's year-long Leadership Academy aims to prepare culturally diverse leaders for executive and senior level positions in higher education.

Herrera Villarreal is a full professor in our ARPE department and director of Resiste - Research & Equity Scholarship Insititute. Learn how the leadership and mentorship Herrera Villarreal received as a first-generation college student transformed her life.

📰 https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2024/10/a-testament-to-the-power

09/25/2024

📣 Exciting News! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Felisha Herrera Villarreal, SDSU Professor of Postsecondary Education and Director of the Research & Equity Scholarship Institute on Student Trajectories in Education (RESISTE), has been selected as a 2024-25 Fellow for the HACU Leadership Academy / La Academia de Liderazgo! 🙌🎓

This prestigious national program prepares leaders to shape the future of higher education, especially at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). We’re so proud of Dr. Herrera Villarreal for this incredible achievement and can’t wait to see the impact of her leadership! 🌟✨



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02/13/2024

Happy ! Today we’d like to highlight the contributions of research analyst and student Elizabeth Nguyen. Learn more about Elizabeth’s work and her educational trajectory! She will be presenting next month at SDSU Student Symposium featuring her work on culturally relevant curriculum in STEM/chemistry.

Elizabeth Nguyen (she/her) is a PhD student in the Joint Doctoral Program at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University. Her parents escaped from Vietnam to give her a better life in the States. Although she was born in the US, her parents emphasized the importance of Vietnamese culture and language and because of that she speaks fluently in Vietnamese.
She is a first-generation college student where she attended Illinois Central College (ICC) and earned an Associate’s Degree in Chemistry. She continued her studies at Bradley University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. During her studies at Bradley, she was a teacher assistant (TA) for several general chemistry and biochemistry labs. It was here where she fell in love with teaching and decided to continue with her studies to obtain a Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry so that she could teach at the Community College level. She was an adjunct chemistry instructor at ICC for 2 years, and also a chemistry teacher at Upward Bound during those 2 summers. Her experiences at Upward Bound is part of the research that she wants to focus on for her PhD dissertation. She remembered how low-income minority students had a strong interest in her summer Upward Bound chemistry class and always wondered why these students did not chose STEM as part of their career pathway even though they had such great potential.

Visit our website to see Elizabeth’s full bio. Link in bio.

02/06/2024

Happy ! Today we’d like to highlight a recent article written by research affiliate Dr. Melo Yap and colleagues. “Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors,” was recently published in a special issue of - CBE—Life Sciences Education focused on Community College Biology Education Research. Check out the article. Link in bio.

01/30/2024

We’re back for another ! Today, we’d like to honor and recognize Dr. Julio Fregoso, postdoctoral research fellow at the Research & Equity Scholarship Institute (RESISTE). This week Dr. Fregoso was featured as a “Postdoc in the Spotlight” at SDSU. Check out the link in our bio to read more about Dr. Fregoso’s scholarship and his current work with RESISTE. Congratulations, Dr. Fregoso! We’re proud of you and grateful for your contributions to the field.