Public Engagement - Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity

Research Reports and Legal Briefs

Transforming and Improving STEM Education for Minoritized Students

August 2020: STEM educators can strengthen instruction by understanding and incorporating pedagogical practices that confront systemic inequalities creating disparities in STEM education for minoritized communities. Barriers that have long prevented Black and Latinx communities from engaging fully with STEM in higher education have to be broken down and reimagined.

Authored by RISE Scholars Dr. Vincent Basile and Dr. Daniel Birmingham, and Higher Education Leadership, Ph.D. Student Douglas H. Lee

Improving Trans Lives on Campus

July 2020: Postsecondary institutions can show that trans people are not only accepted, but understood for their complexity and resistance to oppression.

This policy brief highlights research RISE scholars, Dr. Kari Dockendorff and Dr. D-L Stewart to examine how institutions can address the gender binary in traditional institutional practices, highlight trickle-up policy that centers trans folx, and reimagine inclusive high-impact practices.

Authored by Higher Education Leadership, Ph.D. Students Bri Sérráno and Douglas H. Lee, and RISE Scholars Dr. Kari Dockendorff and Dr. D-L Stewart

How Colleges and Universities Can Support DACA and Undocumented Students

June 2020: The fight for immigrant rights is far from over and NOW is the time for colleges and universities to show a renewed commitment and support for undocumented and DACA students.

This policy brief highlights research from RISE scholar Dr. Susana Muñoz to spotlight strategic actions higher education can take to show undocumented students that colleges and universities will support their education and well-being. These practices include building holistic institutional support, improving campus climate, and eliminating the exploitation of undocumented and DACA students.

Authored by Dr. Susana Muñoz and Douglas H. Lee, Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. OiYan Poon

Eliminating Standardized Testing to Increase Access: Southeast Asian Americans and the University of California System

May 2020: The University of California system is currently debating whether to remove consideration of SAT scores in the undergraduate admissions process. There is an assumption that dropping the SAT requirement would increase college access, particularly for underrepresented minority students.

This report looks back at the last time the UC system dropped a test score requirement and how it helped increase access to its campuses, especially for Southeast Asian Americans.

Authored by Douglas H. Lee, Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. OiYan Poon

Ideologies Of Absence: Anti-blackness And Inclusion Rhetoric In Student Affairs Practice

December 2019: Despite inclusion rhetoric in student affairs, anti-Blackness shapes the experiences of Black graduate and full-time professionals, who are both hypervisible and invisible in student affairs. Using four scenarios reflecting composite narratives, the author discusses how inclusion hides the pervasiveness of anti-Blackness in student affairs practice. Offering a new framework, the author discusses four ideologies of absence: (un)belonging, (un)safety, (in)validation, and (un)reward. These ideologies of absence are contrasted with four ideologies of Black presence.

Authored by Dr. D-L Stewart

Asian Americans and Race-Conscious Admissions: Understanding the Conservative Opposition's Strategy of Misinformation, Intimidation & Racial Division

September 2018: Over the last few years, even as the U.S. Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of race-conscious policies in postsecondary admissions in "Fisher v. University of Texas" (2016), a new wave of attacks in the conservative agenda to dismantle affirmative action (as the policy is more commonly called) emerged.

This report examines the current wave of attacks against race-conscious policies in postsecondary admissions (or affirmative action as the policy is more commonly termed). It focuses specifically on the roles that Asian Americans have come to play, both unwillingly and willingly, in these opposition efforts, and presents new research on Asian Americans' support for affirmative action.

Dr. OiYan Poon is one of the authors of the paper.

Amicus Curiae Brief of 531 Social Scientists and Scholars on College Access, Asian American Studies, and Race in Support of Defendant

August 2018: More than 500 scholars holding doctorates in a wide range of academic fields, including education, Asian American studies, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, have submitted an amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) brief in support of Harvard University, in a case, currently being considered by the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.

Dr. OiYan Poon is one of the authors of the brief.

National Indian Education Study 2015: A Closer Look

2015: National Indian Education Study 2015: A Closer Look is a new report that provides analysis on the diverse nature of American Indian & Alaska Native students by looking at their performance from National Assessment of Educational Progress 2015 Math and Reading.

In addition to the report, the members of the Technical Review Panel drafted a background document, "Setting the Context," which is available via this link.

As the chair of the technical review panel for the National Indian Education Study, Dr. Susan C. Faircloth is one of the named authors on this report.

Blog Posts by RISE Scholars

Working Out/Through

Author: Dr. D-L Stewart
ACPA: Black Lives Matter Blog | June 2020

Response: 'Something Must Change' to Address Challenges Facing Native American Youths

Author: Dr. Susan C. Faircloth
Education Week: Teacher blogs | April 2019

We’re Still Here – Why Aren’t You Teaching To or About Us?

Author: Dr. Susan C. Faircloth
ACT Center for Equity in Learning | November 2018

We Need American Indian and Alaska Native Educators

Author: Dr. Susan C. Faircloth
ACT Center for Equity in Learning | November 2018

Op-Eds by RISE Scholars

Still a Space of Possibility

Author: Dr. D-L Stewart
Inside Higher Ed | June 2020

Refuting the Politicization of Student Affairs Work

Author: Dr. D-L Stewart
Inside Higher Ed | November 2018

How do colleges use affirmative action? Even some activists don’t understand

Author: Dr. OiYan Poon
The Conversation | October 2018

Reclaiming Our Moral Compass: We Must Fight for Families

Author: Dr. Susana Muñoz
The Globe Post | June 2018

Reconnecting Heart and Head: Racism, Immigration Policy, WeChat, and Chinese Americans

Author: Dr. OiYan Poon
Reappropriate | May 2018

An Open Letter to College Presidents about DACA

Author: Dr. Susana Muñoz
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | September 2017

White Supremacy Shows Its Reach With DACA’s End

Author: Dr. Susana Muñoz
The Globe Post | September 2017

Language of Appeasement

Author: Dr. D-L Stewart
Inside Higher Ed | March 2017

Our Schools Need to Teach a Fourth ‘R’: Racial Literacy

Author: Dr. OiYan Poon
Rewire.News | March 2017

Cultural Diversity a Critical Consideration for Native Students

Author: Dr. Susan C. Faircloth
Education Week | January 2015

Displaced Students

Co-author: Dr. Susana Muñoz
Page 22 of Session Report 537 for the Salzburg Global Seminar | October 2014

A Glimpse Into the Lives of Undocumented Students

Author: Dr. Susana Muñoz
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | October 2014

Community-Engaged Research Projects

Caminos Program: Pathways to Education

A partnership between Fort Collins High School, and Colorado State University’s El Centro Cultural Center and School of Education, the goal of the Caminos Program is to address specific academic needs among Latina/o and Indigenous students, and to provide access to and understanding of higher education opportunities while affirming cultural and racial identity, assets, and funds of knowledge.

The Caminos program incorporates service learning and aspirational career planning for high school graduation and college readiness. To achieve these objectives, the Caminos program fosters positive relationships with current CSU student mentors and creates valuable community connections with Latina/on and Indigenous professionals.

RISE faculty member and project P.I.: Dr. Antonette Aragon

Hack the Gates: Radically Reimagine Admissions

Hack the Gates is a year-long collaboration between RISE and ACCEPT, an online association of college admissions professionals.

The project brings together practitioners and researchers to analyze solutions to the systemic barriers low-income students and students of color face in obtaining college access. By rethinking college access from evidence-based and practice perspectives, the project will explore potential equity solutions by facilitating urgent evidence-based dialogue about confronting inequalities in the system. The ultimate outcome is a research report and three policy briefs detailing tangible, systemic reform proposals for public consideration.

RISE research team leader: Dr. OiYan Poon

RISE Scholars in the Media

Raising the Bar: Equity in Online Teaching

In this webinar with the Reinvention Collaborative, Dr. OiYan Poon moderates a panel on equity in online teaching. Panelists include Dr. D-L Stewart.
Find additional resources: https://col.st/pUz9I
The Reinvention Collaborative | May 2020

Decriminalizing Our Elementary School Boys of Color

Coverage of Dr. Vincent Basile's TEDxCSU talk
Source | March 2020

RISE Center plans to bring equitable education research into practice

Coverage of the RISE Center's launch event
The Rocky Mountain Collegian | May 2019

Teaching the Teachers

Profile of Dr. Susan C. Faircloth
CSU Magazine | March 2019

Racial Choices: Justice or "Just Us"?

Video recording of Dr. OiYan Poon's TEDxCSU talk
TEDxCSU | March 2019

"Tracing the historical evolution of Asian American political engagement in policy debates over racial inequalities, Dr. Poon identifies and describes the ideological division between notions of racial justice and 'just us.'"

Black Trans* Lives Matter

Video recording of Dr. D-L Stewart's TEDxCSU talk
TEDxCSU | March 2019

"What would my life and the world look like if Black Trans* Lives mattered? Race, gender, social class, and disability all intersect to shape Black Trans* lives. How would social institutions, such as education, law, healthcare, religion, and family be different?"

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Research Reports and Legal Briefs

Blog Posts by RISE Scholars

Op-Eds by RISE Scholars

Community-Engaged Research Projects

RISE Scholars in the Media