Public Engagement - Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity

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

Research Reports and Legal Briefs

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

May 2020: The University of California (UC) 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 under-represented 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

Dec. 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

Sept. 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

Aug. 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.

RISE Scholars in the Media

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?"

Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity Public Engagement Race and Intersectional Studies for Educational Equity Center

Blog Posts by RISE Scholars

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

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

We Need American Indian and Alaska Native Educators

Op-Eds by RISE Scholars

Refuting the Politicization of Student Affairs Work

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

Reclaiming Our Moral Compass: We Must Fight for Families

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

An Open Letter to College Presidents about DACA

White Supremacy Shows Its Reach With DACA’s End

Language of Appeasement

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

Cultural Diversity a Critical Consideration for Native Students

Displaced Students

A Glimpse Into the Lives of Undocumented Students

Community-Engaged Research Projects

Caminos Program: Pathways to Education

Hack the Gates: Radically Reimagine Admissions

Research Reports and Legal Briefs

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

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

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

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

National Indian Education Study 2015: A Closer Look

RISE Scholars in the Media

Decriminalizing Our Elementary School Boys of Color

RISE Center plans to bring equitable education research into practice

Teaching the Teachers

Racial Choices: Justice or "Just Us"?

Black Trans* Lives Matter

Scholar Story: OiYan Poon

Why is NCORE important? (2018)

Daniel Birmingham discusses bridging education gaps for racial minorities, low-income students

Dr. Susana Muñoz presents on how to support undocumented students at CSU

Susana Muñoz: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Spirituality and Social Justice: Exploring Identity Intersections

Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity Public Engagement Race and Intersectional Studies for Educational Equity Center

Asset 143 Blog Posts by RISE Scholars

Asset 140 Op-Eds by RISE Scholars

Asset 115 Community-Engaged Research Projects

Asset 327 Research Reports and Legal Briefs

Asset 7 RISE Scholars in the Media

Blog Posts by RISE Scholars

Op-Eds by RISE Scholars

Community-Engaged Research Projects

Research Reports and Legal Briefs

RISE Scholars in the Media