Eric R Felix
Biographic Data
| ID | 5453965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric R Felix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric R |
| FAMILY NAME | Felix |
| SIGNATURE | FELIX E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6116-0214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Equity through Guided Pathways in California Community Colleges
The California Community Colleges (CCC) system introduced the Guided Pathways (GP) framework as a large-scale system-wide transformation effort to improve completion rates and close equity gaps. This study analyzes how CCC campuses implemented the GP framework to address issues of racial equity through their 2021–2022 Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA) reports. Using Critical Race Discourse Analysis (CRDA), we examine how institutional language …
Latina Community College Presidents
This study documents the unique personal and professional experiences that Latina leaders bring to the role of community college president. Guided by a Chicana Feminist conceptual framework, we examined the tools, strategies, and assets that Latina presidents possess to persist as higher education leaders within a white patriarchal dominant culture. As a research collective, we conducted platicas as a Chicana Feminist methodology with five Latina…
“All Students Matter”
Background: Nearly two decades have passed since the last successful reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Since then, student loan debt and the accumulation patterns based on race have become a pressing issue to address in U.S. society. Purpose: Student debt is one of the key issues on the federal higher education policy agenda. The purpose of this paper is to examine how race is addressed in a congressional hearing held to discuss the re…
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change
This article uses in-depth interviews to explore the experiences of four community college administrators leading policy efforts to advance racial justice efforts. Through a critical organizational lens, we document the unacknowledged labor associated with being the central figure driving institutional equity efforts and the primary person on campus responsible for overseeing and carrying out racialized organizational change. Our analysis yielded…
Aspirations of attainment
Improving postsecondary educational attainment has been prioritized as a national imperative by policymakers, foundations, and advocacy groups with the goal of significantly increasing the share of college graduates.To achieve this imperative, individual states have developed college-level attainment policies and plans to reach target milestones by years 2025, 2030, and beyond.Although states have taken on the challenge of college completion, the…
For Latinx, by Latinx
Policy implementation research tends to document the failures of reform, describing the myriad ways implementers miss the mark in translating intent into impact; or in the words of Derrick Bell, policy scholars are left with examining the “unfilled hopes of racial reform” (2004, p. 185). In contrast, this article presents an intrinsic case study where campus leaders took a race-conscious approach to implementing a state-wide reform known as the S…
Policy implementation as a tool for advancing equity in community college
This special issue examines the role of policy implementation in the community college context and the ways reforms are enacted to achieve or advance educational equity. In this introduction, we provide an overview of policy implementation, its current landscape within higher education, and the role it can and must serve for community colleges as a tool to advance equity efforts. The articles in this special issue provide a well-rounded overview …
Counterstories of Policy Implementation
We highlight how community colleges implement equity-oriented reform to address inequities facing Latinx students. Through counterstorytelling, we provide lessons learned on the implementation and impact of equity-oriented reform in community college. Key findings revealed that the reform is necessary, but not sufficient to improve racial equity for Latinx students, thus requiring campuses and practitioners to move beyond the margins of superfici…
The decentralization of race
This article examines California’s Student Equity Policy crafted by policymakers to “avoid an underclass of ethnic minorities” in higher education. We combine tenets from critical race theory, interest convergence, and color-evasiveness to qualitatively interrogate 17 policy documents including chaptered bills, legislative mandates, and implementation guidelines related to the reform effort. We highlight how revisions to the reform deliberately i…
The decentralization of race
This article examines California’s Student Equity Policy crafted by policymakers to “avoid an underclass of ethnic minorities” in higher education. We combine tenets from critical race theory, interest convergence, and color-evasiveness to qualitatively interrogate 17 policy documents including chaptered bills, legislative mandates, and implementation guidelines related to the reform effort. We highlight how revisions to the reform deliberately i…
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change
This article uses in-depth interviews to explore the experiences of four community college administrators leading policy efforts to advance racial justice efforts. Through a critical organizational lens, we document the unacknowledged labor associated with being the central figure driving institutional equity efforts and the primary person on campus responsible for overseeing and carrying out racialized organizational change. Our analysis yielded…
The decentralization of race
This article examines California’s Student Equity Policy crafted by policymakers to “avoid an underclass of ethnic minorities” in higher education. We combine tenets from critical race theory, interest convergence, and color-evasiveness to qualitatively interrogate 17 policy documents including chaptered bills, legislative mandates, and implementation guidelines related to the reform effort. We highlight how revisions to the reform deliberately i…
Counterstories of Policy Implementation
We highlight how community colleges implement equity-oriented reform to address inequities facing Latinx students. Through counterstorytelling, we provide lessons learned on the implementation and impact of equity-oriented reform in community college. Key findings revealed that the reform is necessary, but not sufficient to improve racial equity for Latinx students, thus requiring campuses and practitioners to move beyond the margins of superfici…
For Latinx, by Latinx
Policy implementation research tends to document the failures of reform, describing the myriad ways implementers miss the mark in translating intent into impact; or in the words of Derrick Bell, policy scholars are left with examining the “unfilled hopes of racial reform” (2004, p. 185). In contrast, this article presents an intrinsic case study where campus leaders took a race-conscious approach to implementing a state-wide reform known as the S…
Policy implementation as a tool for advancing equity in community college
This special issue examines the role of policy implementation in the community college context and the ways reforms are enacted to achieve or advance educational equity. In this introduction, we provide an overview of policy implementation, its current landscape within higher education, and the role it can and must serve for community colleges as a tool to advance equity efforts. The articles in this special issue provide a well-rounded overview …
Aspirations of attainment
Improving postsecondary educational attainment has been prioritized as a national imperative by policymakers, foundations, and advocacy groups with the goal of significantly increasing the share of college graduates.To achieve this imperative, individual states have developed college-level attainment policies and plans to reach target milestones by years 2025, 2030, and beyond.Although states have taken on the challenge of college completion, the…
Latina Community College Presidents
This study documents the unique personal and professional experiences that Latina leaders bring to the role of community college president. Guided by a Chicana Feminist conceptual framework, we examined the tools, strategies, and assets that Latina presidents possess to persist as higher education leaders within a white patriarchal dominant culture. As a research collective, we conducted platicas as a Chicana Feminist methodology with five Latina…
“All Students Matter”
Background: Nearly two decades have passed since the last successful reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Since then, student loan debt and the accumulation patterns based on race have become a pressing issue to address in U.S. society. Purpose: Student debt is one of the key issues on the federal higher education policy agenda. The purpose of this paper is to examine how race is addressed in a congressional hearing held to discuss the re…
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change
This article uses in-depth interviews to explore the experiences of four community college administrators leading policy efforts to advance racial justice efforts. Through a critical organizational lens, we document the unacknowledged labor associated with being the central figure driving institutional equity efforts and the primary person on campus responsible for overseeing and carrying out racialized organizational change. Our analysis yielded…
Equity through Guided Pathways in California Community Colleges
The California Community Colleges (CCC) system introduced the Guided Pathways (GP) framework as a large-scale system-wide transformation effort to improve completion rates and close equity gaps. This study analyzes how CCC campuses implemented the GP framework to address issues of racial equity through their 2021–2022 Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA) reports. Using Critical Race Discourse Analysis (CRDA), we examine how institutional language …
Higher Education Research Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)