Ana María Núñez
Biographic Data
| ID | 449495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana María Núñez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana María |
| FAMILY NAME | Núñez |
| SIGNATURE | NÚÑEZ A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6859-2805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Without My Family, I Don’t Know If I Would Be Here
The underrepresentation of diverse communities in STEM disciplines, particularly in computer science, remains a significant challenge. This study investigates the experiences of Latinx students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) within computer science departments that are actively working to increase Latinx graduation rates. Utilizing data from ethnographic case studies, we conduct a thematic analysis through the lenses of Yosso’s community…
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics
In U.S. 4-year postsecondary institutions, predominant institutional logics — the embedded assumptions that guide organizational action — have traditionally focused on prestige seeking via acquisition of resources, reputation, and research capabilities. This focus can hinder the design and implementation of teaching approaches and structures that support equitable student experiences and outcomes, particularly for minoritized students. This study…
Navigating Dissonance in Departmental Ecologies
Research has indicated that, in comparison to their counterparts at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), Latinx students at Hispanic-Serving institutions (HSIs) tend to encounter less racism and, in turn, fewer challenges in shaping their ethnic identity development. Yet, evidence has also suggested that the disciplines, and by extension, the departments in which Latinx at HSIs are enrolled (e.g., STEM vs. non-STEM) affect how they encounter …
EL Policy and Immigrant Politics
Although current and former English Learner (EL) or “ever-EL” students comprise one of the fastest-growing K-12 populations, we still know relatively little about the factors that influence their college-going. Using Perna’s seminal college-going model as a launching point, we propose a policy-driven empirical approach to explore how state and federal policy uniquely inform ever-EL students’ academic trajectories. This model considers how EL educ…
Learning in the Wild
This paper examines the creation and negotiation of disciplinary culture, through ethnographic fieldwork about socialization in a critical learning environment: scientific fieldwork. Field-based science has received scant research attention relative to its importance as a degree requirement, a professional rite of passage, and a site where sexual harassment and assault are disturbingly commonplace. We conducted a comparative ethnographic case stu…
Centering Hispanic-Serving Institutions' strategies to develop talent in computing fields
Hispanics have become the largest ethnic minority in the US Better serving Hispanics to succeed in tertiary education and scientific fields like computing is critical to build equitable life opportunities and strengthen the US workforce. Typically, the most selective postsecondary institutions are emphasized as exemplary models for developing human capital in the US. Yet, due to the nation’s tertiary education institutional stratification, relati…
Food and Housing Insecurity for Latinx/a/o College Students
Along with concerns about higher education’s declining affordability, attention to food and housing insecurity among postsecondary students has risen, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this manuscript, the authors review how literature has examined food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students before employing an intersectional lens to develop a research agenda to investigate food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students. This agenda …
Toward a Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding “Servingness” in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% Latinx students. Despite being recognized by the federal government since 1992, HSIs lack a historical mission to serve Latinxs. As such the idea of “servingness” has become an elusive concept. An abundance of literature centering HSIs has been published, yet there continues to be a debate about what it means to serve students. We conducted a systematic re…
Commentary
Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), institutions that enroll at least 25% Hispanic students, are institutionally diverse, including a much wider array of institutional types than other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Furthermore, they have distinctive institutional characteristics from those typically emphasized in institutional typologies such as the Carnegie classification system. To understand better the heterogeneity among HSIs based …
Employing Multilevel Intersectionality in Educational Research
The theoretical framework of intersectionality shows much promise in exploring how multiple social identities and their relationships with interlocking systems of power influence educational equity, particularly for historically underserved groups in education. Yet, social scientists have critiqued this framework for not adequately specifying how these dimensions shape life opportunities. This essay draws on the work of sociologist Floya Anthias …
Diversity, situated social contexts, and college enrollment
Ethnic diversity and Latino/a college access
University of Texas at San AntonioPrior research has indicated that there are differences among the diverse Latino/a ethnicgroups in their K-12 educational experiences, but little is known about variations intheir postsecondary experiences. Drawing on a conceptual framework informed by thetheory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this research examined Mexican Amer-ican and Puerto Rican students college choice and enrollment patterns using th…
Exploring What Leads High School Students to Enroll in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This study examined the student and high school contextual factors associated with high school students’ enrollment in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors drew on a conceptual framework of college choice involving the concepts of multiple capitals and individual and organizational habitus to examine the postsecondary trajectories of high school graduates using the Educational Longitudinal Study 2002/06. Using hierarchical linear mod…
Evaluación del uso del preservativo femenino promovido desde un programa de educación para la salud
El trabajo aquí recogido se aborda desde un estudio de caso, a través del enfoque cualitativo, mediante la técnica del grupo de discusión con la participación de 9 grupos, conformados por un total de 83 estudiantes universitarios del noroeste de España, con edades entre 19 y 42 años. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo son conocer la satisfacción de los y las participantes con el uso del preservativo femenino, así como las ventajas y obstác…
Latino Access to Community Colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This article examines the factors that affect Latinos’ enrollment in community colleges that are Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). Compared with community colleges that are not HSIs, HSI community colleges are serving students at greater risk for not completing college. Latinos who are enrolled in community college HSIs, compared with their counterparts not in HSIs, are more likely to be first-generation college-going, male, and older. They a…
Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen
This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as…
A critical paradox? Predictors of latino students' sense of belonging in college
Establishing a College Culture in Secondary Schools Through P-20 Collaboration
This case study examines a P-20 action research partnership involving a university, a nonprofit organization, and several middle and high schools with sizeable enrollments of underserved students. The partnership’s goals were rooted in a cultural change model designed to encourage college awareness and attendance among largely Latino and African American students. The research reveals the barriers and opportunities inherent in a collaborative mod…
Organizational Collaboration to Promote College Access
P-20 collaboration between the P-12 and higher education sectors has been increasing in recent years as a strategy to promote college access, particularly among underrepresented students.This article provides an overview of the current state of P-20 scholarship and practice in the field, offers an approach to conceptualizing the study and practice of P-20 collaboration, suggests strategies for refining research and practice in the field, and offe…
Migrant Students' College Access
Little is known about migrant students' college access. Outreach programs serving such students rarely track their participants' postsecondary trajectories, nor do they compare participants' college access outcomes with those of similar students. This study examines the California public college application, acceptance, and enrollment patterns of participants in the Migrant Student Leadership Institute, a residential college preparatory summer pr…
Modeling the Effects of Diversity Experiences and Multiple Capitals on Latina/o College Students' Academic Self-Confidence
This study develops a model predicting academic self-confidence for 2nd-year Latina/o college students. Findings indicate that forms of academic, cultural, social, and intercultural capital (the capacity to negotiate diverse racial and ethnic environments) are positively associated with academic self-confidence. The prevalence of negative cross-racial interactions is negatively associated with academic self-confidence. The study's results suggest…
Teaching Working Class
Braudel, F.
la fundación de Constantinopla y la irrupción del cristianismo, en navegación de cabotaje por los diferentes protagonistas de este espacio de manera diacrónica, encallando el autor en preguntas y reflexiones, en cierta manera retóricas, esenciales a la explicación y constantemente bandeado por los vientos difusionistas.
Employing Multilevel Intersectionality in Educational Research
The theoretical framework of intersectionality shows much promise in exploring how multiple social identities and their relationships with interlocking systems of power influence educational equity, particularly for historically underserved groups in education. Yet, social scientists have critiqued this framework for not adequately specifying how these dimensions shape life opportunities. This essay draws on the work of sociologist Floya Anthias …
Latino Access to Community Colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This article examines the factors that affect Latinos’ enrollment in community colleges that are Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). Compared with community colleges that are not HSIs, HSI community colleges are serving students at greater risk for not completing college. Latinos who are enrolled in community college HSIs, compared with their counterparts not in HSIs, are more likely to be first-generation college-going, male, and older. They a…
Organizational Collaboration to Promote College Access
P-20 collaboration between the P-12 and higher education sectors has been increasing in recent years as a strategy to promote college access, particularly among underrepresented students.This article provides an overview of the current state of P-20 scholarship and practice in the field, offers an approach to conceptualizing the study and practice of P-20 collaboration, suggests strategies for refining research and practice in the field, and offe…
Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), institutions that enroll at least 25% Hispanic students, are institutionally diverse, including a much wider array of institutional types than other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Furthermore, they have distinctive institutional characteristics from those typically emphasized in institutional typologies such as the Carnegie classification system. To understand better the heterogeneity among HSIs based …
Exploring What Leads High School Students to Enroll in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This study examined the student and high school contextual factors associated with high school students’ enrollment in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors drew on a conceptual framework of college choice involving the concepts of multiple capitals and individual and organizational habitus to examine the postsecondary trajectories of high school graduates using the Educational Longitudinal Study 2002/06. Using hierarchical linear mod…
Establishing a College Culture in Secondary Schools Through P-20 Collaboration
This case study examines a P-20 action research partnership involving a university, a nonprofit organization, and several middle and high schools with sizeable enrollments of underserved students. The partnership’s goals were rooted in a cultural change model designed to encourage college awareness and attendance among largely Latino and African American students. The research reveals the barriers and opportunities inherent in a collaborative mod…
A critical paradox? Predictors of latino students' sense of belonging in college
Modeling the Effects of Diversity Experiences and Multiple Capitals on Latina/o College Students' Academic Self-Confidence
This study develops a model predicting academic self-confidence for 2nd-year Latina/o college students. Findings indicate that forms of academic, cultural, social, and intercultural capital (the capacity to negotiate diverse racial and ethnic environments) are positively associated with academic self-confidence. The prevalence of negative cross-racial interactions is negatively associated with academic self-confidence. The study's results suggest…
Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen
This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as…
Ethnic diversity and Latino/a college access
University of Texas at San AntonioPrior research has indicated that there are differences among the diverse Latino/a ethnicgroups in their K-12 educational experiences, but little is known about variations intheir postsecondary experiences. Drawing on a conceptual framework informed by thetheory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this research examined Mexican Amer-ican and Puerto Rican students college choice and enrollment patterns using th…
Migrant Students' College Access
Little is known about migrant students' college access. Outreach programs serving such students rarely track their participants' postsecondary trajectories, nor do they compare participants' college access outcomes with those of similar students. This study examines the California public college application, acceptance, and enrollment patterns of participants in the Migrant Student Leadership Institute, a residential college preparatory summer pr…
Food and Housing Insecurity for Latinx/a/o College Students
Along with concerns about higher education’s declining affordability, attention to food and housing insecurity among postsecondary students has risen, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this manuscript, the authors review how literature has examined food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students before employing an intersectional lens to develop a research agenda to investigate food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students. This agenda …
Learning in the Wild
This paper examines the creation and negotiation of disciplinary culture, through ethnographic fieldwork about socialization in a critical learning environment: scientific fieldwork. Field-based science has received scant research attention relative to its importance as a degree requirement, a professional rite of passage, and a site where sexual harassment and assault are disturbingly commonplace. We conducted a comparative ethnographic case stu…
Diversity, situated social contexts, and college enrollment
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics
In U.S. 4-year postsecondary institutions, predominant institutional logics — the embedded assumptions that guide organizational action — have traditionally focused on prestige seeking via acquisition of resources, reputation, and research capabilities. This focus can hinder the design and implementation of teaching approaches and structures that support equitable student experiences and outcomes, particularly for minoritized students. This study…
Evaluación del uso del preservativo femenino promovido desde un programa de educación para la salud
El trabajo aquí recogido se aborda desde un estudio de caso, a través del enfoque cualitativo, mediante la técnica del grupo de discusión con la participación de 9 grupos, conformados por un total de 83 estudiantes universitarios del noroeste de España, con edades entre 19 y 42 años. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo son conocer la satisfacción de los y las participantes con el uso del preservativo femenino, así como las ventajas y obstác…
Braudel, F.
la fundación de Constantinopla y la irrupción del cristianismo, en navegación de cabotaje por los diferentes protagonistas de este espacio de manera diacrónica, encallando el autor en preguntas y reflexiones, en cierta manera retóricas, esenciales a la explicación y constantemente bandeado por los vientos difusionistas.
Teaching Working Class
Modeling the Effects of Diversity Experiences and Multiple Capitals on Latina/o College Students' Academic Self-Confidence
This study develops a model predicting academic self-confidence for 2nd-year Latina/o college students. Findings indicate that forms of academic, cultural, social, and intercultural capital (the capacity to negotiate diverse racial and ethnic environments) are positively associated with academic self-confidence. The prevalence of negative cross-racial interactions is negatively associated with academic self-confidence. The study's results suggest…
A critical paradox? Predictors of latino students' sense of belonging in college
Establishing a College Culture in Secondary Schools Through P-20 Collaboration
This case study examines a P-20 action research partnership involving a university, a nonprofit organization, and several middle and high schools with sizeable enrollments of underserved students. The partnership’s goals were rooted in a cultural change model designed to encourage college awareness and attendance among largely Latino and African American students. The research reveals the barriers and opportunities inherent in a collaborative mod…
Organizational Collaboration to Promote College Access
P-20 collaboration between the P-12 and higher education sectors has been increasing in recent years as a strategy to promote college access, particularly among underrepresented students.This article provides an overview of the current state of P-20 scholarship and practice in the field, offers an approach to conceptualizing the study and practice of P-20 collaboration, suggests strategies for refining research and practice in the field, and offe…
Migrant Students' College Access
Little is known about migrant students' college access. Outreach programs serving such students rarely track their participants' postsecondary trajectories, nor do they compare participants' college access outcomes with those of similar students. This study examines the California public college application, acceptance, and enrollment patterns of participants in the Migrant Student Leadership Institute, a residential college preparatory summer pr…
Latino Access to Community Colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This article examines the factors that affect Latinos’ enrollment in community colleges that are Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). Compared with community colleges that are not HSIs, HSI community colleges are serving students at greater risk for not completing college. Latinos who are enrolled in community college HSIs, compared with their counterparts not in HSIs, are more likely to be first-generation college-going, male, and older. They a…
Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen
This study examines our experiences as female junior scholars with multicultural backgrounds teaching at the same Hispanic‐serving institution. As education scholars with mixed‐heritage families, we identify with the commitment to serving Latinos and the number of mixed‐heritage people in the USA. The election of Barack Obama, whose racial background is both black and white, to the US presidency signifies the emergence of mixed‐heritage people as…
Exploring What Leads High School Students to Enroll in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This study examined the student and high school contextual factors associated with high school students’ enrollment in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors drew on a conceptual framework of college choice involving the concepts of multiple capitals and individual and organizational habitus to examine the postsecondary trajectories of high school graduates using the Educational Longitudinal Study 2002/06. Using hierarchical linear mod…
Evaluación del uso del preservativo femenino promovido desde un programa de educación para la salud
El trabajo aquí recogido se aborda desde un estudio de caso, a través del enfoque cualitativo, mediante la técnica del grupo de discusión con la participación de 9 grupos, conformados por un total de 83 estudiantes universitarios del noroeste de España, con edades entre 19 y 42 años. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo son conocer la satisfacción de los y las participantes con el uso del preservativo femenino, así como las ventajas y obstác…
Ethnic diversity and Latino/a college access
University of Texas at San AntonioPrior research has indicated that there are differences among the diverse Latino/a ethnicgroups in their K-12 educational experiences, but little is known about variations intheir postsecondary experiences. Drawing on a conceptual framework informed by thetheory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this research examined Mexican Amer-ican and Puerto Rican students college choice and enrollment patterns using th…
Diversity, situated social contexts, and college enrollment
Employing Multilevel Intersectionality in Educational Research
The theoretical framework of intersectionality shows much promise in exploring how multiple social identities and their relationships with interlocking systems of power influence educational equity, particularly for historically underserved groups in education. Yet, social scientists have critiqued this framework for not adequately specifying how these dimensions shape life opportunities. This essay draws on the work of sociologist Floya Anthias …
Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), institutions that enroll at least 25% Hispanic students, are institutionally diverse, including a much wider array of institutional types than other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Furthermore, they have distinctive institutional characteristics from those typically emphasized in institutional typologies such as the Carnegie classification system. To understand better the heterogeneity among HSIs based …
Commentary
Toward a Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding “Servingness” in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% Latinx students. Despite being recognized by the federal government since 1992, HSIs lack a historical mission to serve Latinxs. As such the idea of “servingness” has become an elusive concept. An abundance of literature centering HSIs has been published, yet there continues to be a debate about what it means to serve students. We conducted a systematic re…
Food and Housing Insecurity for Latinx/a/o College Students
Along with concerns about higher education’s declining affordability, attention to food and housing insecurity among postsecondary students has risen, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this manuscript, the authors review how literature has examined food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students before employing an intersectional lens to develop a research agenda to investigate food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students. This agenda …
Learning in the Wild
This paper examines the creation and negotiation of disciplinary culture, through ethnographic fieldwork about socialization in a critical learning environment: scientific fieldwork. Field-based science has received scant research attention relative to its importance as a degree requirement, a professional rite of passage, and a site where sexual harassment and assault are disturbingly commonplace. We conducted a comparative ethnographic case stu…
Centering Hispanic-Serving Institutions' strategies to develop talent in computing fields
Hispanics have become the largest ethnic minority in the US Better serving Hispanics to succeed in tertiary education and scientific fields like computing is critical to build equitable life opportunities and strengthen the US workforce. Typically, the most selective postsecondary institutions are emphasized as exemplary models for developing human capital in the US. Yet, due to the nation’s tertiary education institutional stratification, relati…
EL Policy and Immigrant Politics
Although current and former English Learner (EL) or “ever-EL” students comprise one of the fastest-growing K-12 populations, we still know relatively little about the factors that influence their college-going. Using Perna’s seminal college-going model as a launching point, we propose a policy-driven empirical approach to explore how state and federal policy uniquely inform ever-EL students’ academic trajectories. This model considers how EL educ…
Without My Family, I Don’t Know If I Would Be Here
The underrepresentation of diverse communities in STEM disciplines, particularly in computer science, remains a significant challenge. This study investigates the experiences of Latinx students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) within computer science departments that are actively working to increase Latinx graduation rates. Utilizing data from ethnographic case studies, we conduct a thematic analysis through the lenses of Yosso’s community…
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics
In U.S. 4-year postsecondary institutions, predominant institutional logics — the embedded assumptions that guide organizational action — have traditionally focused on prestige seeking via acquisition of resources, reputation, and research capabilities. This focus can hinder the design and implementation of teaching approaches and structures that support equitable student experiences and outcomes, particularly for minoritized students. This study…
Navigating Dissonance in Departmental Ecologies
Research has indicated that, in comparison to their counterparts at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), Latinx students at Hispanic-Serving institutions (HSIs) tend to encounter less racism and, in turn, fewer challenges in shaping their ethnic identity development. Yet, evidence has also suggested that the disciplines, and by extension, the departments in which Latinx at HSIs are enrolled (e.g., STEM vs. non-STEM) affect how they encounter …
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