Campus Climate & Liberatory Outcomes at HSIs

In the third episode of season 2 of ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? I engage with Dra. Marcela Cuellar who is an Associate Professor at UC Davis. Dra. Cuellar talks to us about the importance of doing research with emerging HSIs and elevates her research about campus climate in HSIs. She also shares her work conceptualizing a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI) identity and helps us further understand liberatory outcomes, or what she calls empowerment outcomes, and why they are important indicators of serving. This episode offers a wealth of knowledge about Dra. Cuellar’s research which examines higher education access, experiences, and outcomes at HSIs and emerging HSIs, campus climate, and community college baccalaureates.

Guest: Dra. Marcela Cuellar (she/her/ella), Associate Professor, UC Davis

Twitter: @LaProfeCuellar | Instagram: @dra.mgc

Show notes: 

• Cuellar, M. (2014). The impact of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), emerging HSIs, and non-HSIs on Latina/o academic self-concept. Review of Higher Education, 37, 499–530. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2014.0032
• Cuellar, M., & Johnson-Ahorlu, R. N. (2016). Examining the complexity of the campus racial climate at a Hispanic serving community college. Community College Review, 44(2), 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552116632584
• Cuellar, M. G., & Johnson-Ahorlu, R. N. (2020). Racialized experiences off and on campus: Contextualizing Latina/o students’ perceptions of climate at an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177.0042085920927772
• Cuellar, M., Segundo, V., & Muñoz, Y. (2017). Assessing empowerment at HSIs: An adapted inputs-environments-outcomes model. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 11(3), 84-108. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.11.3.362
• Deeb-Sossa, N., Cuellar, M. G., Nuñez Martinez, M., Sanchez Nava, Y., & Guerrero, B. G. (2021). Examining recruitment practices for servingness during COVID-19: Perspectives from institutional agents at an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Education Sciences, 11(9), 454. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090454