On Thursday, July 11, 2024, hear from a panel of mothers during "The State of Pregnant and Parenting Students in California: A Student-Parent Roundtable on the Impacts of AB 2881." They will discuss their experiences on campus post-AB 2881 implementation and will shed light on how student parents have been supported, as well as what work remains to be done. Passed in 2022, the legislation called for: 

• Offering priority registration to student parents

• Creating and featuring a webpage of resources available to student parents

• Collecting better data on student parents and using it to effectively support them

LINK to register for the webinar.

Recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship Award for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Dropping soon in Southwestern Law Review!

LINK to Journal.

There was a wonderful gathering of students, staff, faculty, and community members who came together on May 21, 2024 at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo to learn more about the lives of student parents in higher education.

Grateful to the Dean of Students team: Joy M. PedersenI am thankful to the Dean of Students team: Joy M. Pedersen, Ph.D., Courtney Moore, Everardo Vences-Gonzalez at Cal Poly Scholars & Roberto Ruiz at EOPS for collaborating on this event.

Appreciations to the Bailey College Equity and Inclusion Fund for supporting this learning together. 

Hosted in the College of Engineering (Advanced Technologies Labs)

Learn more about the series: https://raisingupstudentparents.com/ 

Learn more about our Community of Practice for pregnant and parenting students with the Urban Institute.

LINK to Press Release.

End of year celebration with TIER cohort 3 at the HUB.

Learn more about our U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership grant, Teaching for Inclusivity and Equity (TIER), LINK.

Congrats to Cal Poly Senior Cristian Reyes, awardee for Learning by Doing Good Award (Engagement). 

Sharing some work I've been a part of with NAEP, revising the 2028 Science Framework.

Learn more about the NAEP Science Framework 2028, LINK

Cultivating Teachers of Color: Culturally and Linguistically Affirming Programs and Spaces, Research, and Racial Justice. Saturday, April 13, 2024. Penn Convention Center

Read more about our work with the Urban Institute on data collection on student parents.

LINK to article.

Our School of Education team was awarded a mini-grant in the amount of $4,604.00 to support bilingual, Latinx Cal Poly teacher candidates enrolled the Spanish Authorization for Bilingual Educators (SABE) program. 

Learn more about our grant, LINK.

Serving as an advisory board member at The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (2023-present).

Learn more about the Alliance: LINK

As part of the NSF Mock Review Panel organized by CIRCLS, fellow Tina Cheuk engaged in professional development in writing and reviewing NSF grant proposal related to emerging educational technologies this past summer 2023.  Part of her fellowship includes attending the 2023 CIRCLS convening in DC on Nov 2-3, 2023.  The theme of this convening: Shaping AI and Emerging Technologies to Empower Learning Communities.

She will be part of this expertise exchange session titled: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration through Value Surfacing on Nov 2, 2023 (11 am EST).

Abstract: Interdisciplinary collaborations are powerful in the way that they bring together people with different expertises and perspectives to solve complex real-world problems. However, they pose challenges to participants, who often come in with different goals and values, and may struggle to converge on a shared understanding and purpose. In this session, we will introduce some methods employed in an AI CIRCLS Project Incubator for facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations, with a focus on future-thinking activities designed to surface values and help project groups come together. Participants in the session will engage in one of these activities themselves as an introduction to how these methods function and their potential benefits and drawbacks. We will then collectively reflect on the ways in which those methods were effective or ineffective for surfacing individuals’ values and assisting individuals in resolving conflicts in the values that arose. 

https://circls.org/circls23-facilitating-interdisciplinary-collaboration-through-value-surfacing 

Learn more about CIRCLS ' 23 Convening in DC: https://circls.org/circls23 

Cal Poly’s Data-to-Action Campaign for Parenting Students work will be led by Urban Institute. Our goal is to be part of a Community of Practice (CoP) aimed at enhancing our capacity to identify and provide targeted support for parenting students, particularly single mothers. These efforts hold tremendous promise not only for our institution but for the broader higher educational landscape.

Read more here: https://mustangnews.net/cal-poly-college-of-science-and-mathematics-receives-60000-grant-to-support-parenting-students/ 

Our team convened in Eugene, Oregon to kick off our work in the Data to Action: Campaign for Parenting Students work. We will be in a community of practice with the campuses and campus system shown in the photo.

Dr. Tina Cheuk and Maya Valree (Cal Poly Alumna, now at EdTrust West) will talk about their most recent Law Review article on Friday, October 6, hosted by Southwestern Law Review. Our article titled, Impact of the COVID19 Care Crisis for  Student Parents in Higher Ed will be out this winter.

Dr. Tina Cheuk has been nominated and selected as a committee member for a consensus study on PreK-12 STEM Education Innovations.

Learn more about the committee: https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/prek-12-stem-education-innovations 

Dr. Tina Cheuk will be speaking at CV-RISER at Fresno State on June 24, 2023.  Her talk is titled" Fostering just and thriving learning communities: Tools for public scholars committed to racial justice.

Learn more about the conference: https://cv-riser-2023.squarespace.com/ 

Dr. Tina Cheuk will be at the upcoming BNRC Summer Meeting hosted by CSU Long Beach.

CSU Basic Needs Research Consortium (BNRC) summer meeting theme is: Student Human Rights.  BNRC seeks to maximize collective impact by bringing faculty research experts together. The Consortium will leverage existing research efforts, coordinate efforts to seek research funding, generate landmark new research, and contribute evidence to influence policy. The Consortium will facilitate collaboration, networking, and utilization of systemwide resources.  Our goal is to reduce equity gaps in retention, academic success, and graduation by building a CSU systemwide BNRC to integrate and build momentum for research efforts related to the basic needs of students. 

To learn more about CSU Basic Needs: https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative 

Dr. Tina Cheuk will be sharing her work and her pathway into academia at the 2023 annual RILE lecture hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Tina Cheuk recently attended Ascend Postsecondary Success for Parents Initiative's Collaborative Action for Student Parents in Washington, D.C. 

Convening goals included:

• Uplift parent voice to ensure the ecosystem is grounded in the lived experiences of student parents.

• Share field priorities in data, policy, and practice surfaced during last year's convening.

• Explore strategies to work collaboratively toward accomplishing key field priorities and moving student parent needs forward.

• Expand the network of stakeholders engaged in our shared work.

Dr. Tina Cheuk is a mentor, educator, and supporter of underrepresented students on campus. She has consistently mentored historically underserved communities, uplifting first-generation and BIPOC students. She makes herself available to better fit the schedules of students with dependents, previously was the faculty advisor for the Students with Dependents Coalition Club, and is an advocate for policy changes such as AB-2881 to better support parents who are navigating university. Dr. Cheuk has also supports Educators of Color through her courses and curriculum, focusing on bring equity and inclusion to classrooms by uplifting future educators who are of underrepresented backgrounds.

For more: https://diversity.calpoly.edu/2023-presidents-diversity-awards 

College success for pregnant and parenting students has important implications for racial, ethnic, and economic equity in higher education. Among students of color, one in three black students, one in three Native American students, and one in five Latinx students are parents. There is not a more opportune time as the visibility of care work has been propelled to the foreground during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pregnant and Parenting Students Belonging and Thriving Framework aims to ensure that students enrolled in higher educational institutions are healthy places where student parents and their children belong and thrive. This framework aims to address root issues of the disparate and fragmented range of current practices and policies that have been inadequate in serving this unseen and often invisibilized student population. Rather than starting at the organizational spaces of higher ed itself — this framework embraces the wholeness and complexity of student parent life, moving away from the traditional bifurcated academic vs. student affairs approach that is predominant in higher ed spaces. 

This webinar will discuss how this tool, organized around five sustainable foci (i.e., community building, healing, self-determination, mutual power, and shared access to opportunities) can be useful in transforming the educational and life experiences for pregnant and parenting students who have been historically and systematically marginalized in higher educational spaces.

To access the recording: https://www.aashe.org/calendar/pregnant-students-framework/ 

Congratulations to Student Parent Joy graduate assistant Maya Valree on her recent recognition Cal Poly Student Employee of the Year.  We are joined by her champions from Cal Poly Scholars, School of Education, and the Black Academic Excellence Center (BAEC). Awardees attended a luncheon hosted by CP President Armstrong.

To learn more: https://afd.calpoly.edu/payroll/students/student-employee-of-the-year 

Colleagues from the California State University system collaborated on this recent round table discussion at AERA on Teacher Residency programs. 

Dr. Cheuk served as a faculty moderator for a recent panel titled, Reproductive and Parenting as a Student, organized jointly by Cal Poly Campus Health and Wellbeing and Cal Poly Students with Dependents.

A number of our TIER residents (in bilingual education, multiple & single subject) attended the annual 2023 CABE conference in Long Beach.  We were joined by alumni and teacher candidates in the Spanish Authorization Bilingual Education (SABE) program at Cal Poly SOE.

Joined by Assemblymember Marc Berman, the CSU Student Parent Network shared and discussed best practices for implementing AB 2881, a new law in California that requires colleges and universities to prioritize registration for student parents and provide them with the resources and support critical to their success. The webinar focused on the importance of this law in removing barriers that inhibit academic success and degree attainment for student parents at California’s community colleges, CSUs, and University of California campuses (UCs).

CCTE Innovative Practices in Teacher Education Award to California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo School of Education and Liberal Studies Team. This award is given in recognition of programs which are focused on practices developing and implementing anti-bias and anti-racist teaching in teacher education. The Cal Poly SLO team is recognized for two transformative pedagogical shifts: the creation of a course focused specifically on developing Teachers of Color by Dr. Oscar Navarro and Dr. Tina Cheuk and the faculty co-sponsorship of a student-led club, Educators of Color, co-led by Dr. Tina Cheuk and Dr. Amanda Frye. Both programs have made significant impact in supporting the development, growth, and learning of educators of color. The centering and honoring of future educators of color in a predominantly White space through structural investment in these two ways embodies the spirit of anti-bias/anti-racist pedagogies and practices that support the diversity of P-12 educators in California.

In 2019, Cal Poly hired 13 tenure-track professors to focus on inclusive teaching strategies, in a move known as a diversity, equity and inclusion-focused cluster hire. Hear from some of these professors, located across four colleges, as they describe the courses they created.

Title IX literally changed the face of higher education. It remediated the exclusion of education from the earlier Civil Rights Act and made sex discrimination in education illegal. For many of women, affirmative action got our foot in the door, and Title IX allowed us to stay by giving us recourse when we faced harassment and discrimination in the tenure process. But enforcement took unexpected turns when athletics, not at all envisioned by the bill's creators, became the main focus. After initial floundering, the government created compliance protocols for athletics, and only for athletics. Much progress has been made, but even in athletics, as the dramatic disparity in the NCAA bubble last year showed, there is much work to be done. And the question of why STEM seems to have benefited so little from Title IX and whether Title IX could be used more effectively in STEM and related fields remains to be answered.

1:30 PM - Introductory remarks by Provost Sally Kornbluth

1:45 PM - Panel 1: Background - Where we've come and how we got here with Deondra Rose (Duke), Elizabeth 'Libby' Sharrow (U Mass), and Miray Seward (Duke '14, Ph.D. Virginia, Search Institute)

3:30 PM - Panel 2: Title IX and STEM - Can Title IX change STEM? A moderated discussion and Q&A with Sherryl Broverman (Biology/Global Health), Whitney McCoy (Child and Family Policy), Kisha Daniels (Program in Education), and Tina Cheuk (California Poly-SLO); Katherine 'Katie' Newhall (UNC Math)

5:30 PM - Panel 3: The Way Forward - A student forum on Title IX & STEM Moderated discussion led by student panel.

Profile covers EDUC403: Developing Educators of Color (Spring course).

In this podcast with Dr. Frank Gomez, we talk about my work engaging teacher of color, and the development of culturally and linguistically diverse learners in STEM settings​.

This second symposium seeks to take stock of COVID responses and to re-envision the workplace, to imagine the future of work, and to dream new realities for the academy. Plenary Session (June 17, 2022). LINK to agenda.

• Jasmine Harris(Moderator)

• Jessica Calarco, Without a Net

• Tina Cheuk, A Framework for How Pregnant & Parenting Students Can Belong and Thrive

• Meera Deo, Pandemic Parenting

• Anne Joseph O’Connell, Updates from the Stanford Survey & Support for Untenured Faculty

Check out my short live interview on KCBS radio!

Link to audio from the station (4:27): https://go.audacy.com/2zhRp6HUkpb  [it should play after the pop up add runs.]

Link to Quicktime audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssjWTr8jZt7PdYXzsEb_R2gew0cu3Jtr/view

Cal Poly News article covering our Spencer Foundation Small Grant with Educators of Color.  LINK to article. 

March 9, 2022. 4 pm virtual talk at The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. I will be in conversation with book author Nicole Lynn Lewis.

Pregnant and parenting students often don’t see their needs and circumstances reflected in course policies and accommodations. What are the biggest challenges faced by this student population? Who is ultimately responsible for ensuring pregnant and parenting student success, and how is the California State University System doing in supporting them?

Join us on February 24th as we explore the current state of pregnant and parenting students in California and identify pathways that can help them succeed.

Panelists:

Jay Bettergarcia, College of Liberal Arts

Tina Cheuk, College of Science & Mathematics

Anurag Pande, College of Engineering

Jane Lehr, College of Liberal Arts

Amber Williams, College of Liberal Arts

Trish Brock, Research, Economic Development & Graduate Education

Facilitators:

Corrin Terrones, Grants Development, R-EDGE

Julie Dolengewicz, Grants Development, R-EDGE

Allie Walter, Office of the Vice President, R-EDGE 

Cal Poly School of Education HECSA student Ashlee Hernandez has been awarded a competitive grant form the Baker/Koob Endowment to support her proposal titled, "Leveraging the CPX initiative towards sustainable academic and life outcomes for pregnant and parenting students".

Tina Cheuk and Robin Hoecker describe their advocacy efforts on behalf of grad students who are also parents and what they learned in the process.  Published online November 6, 2018.

Interview conducted by Stanford GSE doctoral candidate Jennifer Altavilla.