Interviews & Media

Below, are select interviews, lectures, talks, and information tools summarizing and drawing from the collective research happening in CREA.

Building institutional capacity for high-impact research on servingness

An invited talk for the UCSC HSI Equity Series

To learn more, visit: https://hsi.ucsc.edu

Navigating your first year as a FirstGen college student

An invited series as part of the University of California First Generation Initiative

To learn more, visit https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/student-success/firstgen

What it Means to be First-Generation

An invited interview with KZSC Santa Cruz's Voces Criticas

The Roles of Power and Oppression in the Academic Community

An invited webinar for Society of the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

To learn more, visit: https://www.spssi.org

CREA in the News

First-gen faculty leader: Rebecca CovarrubiasThe social psychology professor documents the experiences of students who are the first in their family to attend college.

Raising awareness of ‘deficit thinking’Undergraduate researcher works to combat harmful perceptions many first-generation students experience

Invisible Labor, or Labor of Love? Transforming Structures of Whiteness - City on a Hill Press‘Hide your Mexican identity.’ That’s what astrophysics professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was told as a student during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His experience is one of many that students and faculty of color (FOC) have to navigate given the...

University of California plan links first-generation students with similar professors

First year, first generation: Going home - WHYYMany freshmen see college as a first foray into indepdence. So why are the students in our first-generation project so keen on going home?

Underrepresented Students Navigate Higher Education - City on a Hill PressStudents of color and first-generation students often find themselves working twice as hard to adapt to university life, though their additional effort is largely ignored by their institutions. Impossible to ignore, however, is how this additional effort and other factors affect their mental health. The...

The power of researchWilfrido Hernández Flores discovered social science research in the Culture and Achievement Collaborative, and it changed his life

Breaking down barriers to successFirst-gen student Reina Garay-Solis is doing undergraduate research to help identify common challenges for first-gen and underrepresented students and find effective institutional practices to address them

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