This Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review considers the needs, interests, and experiences of Latina/o students currently enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities.

This Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review considers the needs, interests, and experiences of Latina/o students currently enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. It draws from the tradition of consejos—words of wisdom, honoring both the insights of our contributors and the personal advice of the Latina/o students whose stories the authors examine. Through scholarly articles and personal narratives, this issue identifies unexplored questions, unchallenged assumptions, and new insights about Latina/o students’ undergraduate experiences. The result is a complex array of articles that presents a hitherto unequaled portrait of the experiences—the challenges, aspirations, frustrations, and strategies—that together mark the undergraduate educations of Latina/o students today.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Sylvia Hurtado

Editors’ Introduction

Ángeles, Sacrificios, y Dios:A Puerto Rican Woman’s Journey Through Higher Education
Marisa Rivera

Latina/o Undergraduate Students Mentoring Latina/o Elementary Students: A Borderlands Analysis of Shifting Identities and First-Year Experiences
Dolores Delgado Bernal, Enrique Alemán Jr., and Andrea Garavito

Existentialism at Home, Determinism Abroad: A Small-Town Mexican American Kid Goes Global
Joe Robert González

From the Bricks to the Hall
Mellie Torres

The Re-Education of a Pocha-Rican: How Latina/o Studies Latinized Me
Arelis Hernandez

Sin Papeles y Rompiendo Barreras: Latino Students and the Challenges of Persisting in College
Frances Contreras

Dimensions of the Transfer Choice Gap: Experiences of Latina and Latino Students Who Navigated Transfer Pathways
Estela Mara Bensimon and Alicia C. Dowd

Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate for Latina/o Undergraduates
Tara Yosso, William Smith, Miguel Ceja, and Daniel Solórzano

M.E.: Mexican American and Educated
Marlen Vasquez

Increasing Latino/a Representation in Math and Science: An Insider’s Look
Jarrad Aguirre

Challenging Racist Nativist Framing: Acknowledging the Community Cultural Wealth of Undocumented Chicana College Students to Reframe the Immigration Debate
Lindsay Pérez Huber

Results Not Typical: One Latino Family’s Experiences in Higher Education
Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Norma V. Jimenez Hernandez, Ruth Luevanos, Dulcemonica Jimenez, and Abel Jimenez Jr.

Barriers to Success: A Narrative of One Latina Student’s Struggles
Jannell Robles

The Xicana Sacred Space: A Communal Circle of Compromiso for Educational Researchers
Lourdes Diaz Soto, Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Elizabeth Villarreal, and Emmet E. Campos

Book Notes

Standing on the Outside Looking In
edited by Mary F. Howard-Hamilton, Carla L. Morelon-Quainoo, Susan D. Johnson, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, and Lilia Santiague.

Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education
Alejandra Rincón.


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