The purpose of AAHHE is to bring together scholars, educators, practitioners, and collaborative organizations to address issues and concerns affecting the Latinx community, with a focus on higher education. The Latinx population is the largest ethnic minoritized population in America, and yet ​it is still highly underrepresented in undergraduate and graduate ​enrollments, and graduation rates.

Congratulations and good luck to the following UW–Madison students and alumni:

• Laura C. Chávez-Moreno received her Ph.D. from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and currently is a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education ​and Information ​Studies. ​Recently, she was awarded third place in ETS’ outstanding dissertation competition. The title of her presentation is: “Critical Race Ethnography Examining Dual-language Education in the New Latinx Diaspora: Reinforcing and Resisting Bilingual Education’s Racial Root.”
• Vanessa Peña (WISCAPE‘s project assistant) and Yasmin Rodriguez, both Ph.D. students in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, will be presenting their research titled: “Examining the Pilot Year of a Latinx Cultural Center at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) Using Critical Race Theory (CRT).”
• Valerie Crespín-Trujillo, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Yasmin Rodriguez will be presenting their “National Analysis of High School to College STEM Pathways, Programs, and Degree Production at Hispanic Serving Institutions.”

Congratulations as well to Courtney L. Luedke, an alumna of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, for being selected as a 2019 AAHHE Junior Faculty Fellow.

The 2019 AAHHE conference theme is “Civil Rights ​and the LatinX Community: Our Social, Economic, and Educational Future​.” View the full conference program.