2021 AAHHE National Conference | Virtual Event
Sembrando Semillas: (Re)imagining the Contours of Latinx/a/o Communities within Higher Education
February 26 & March 1 – 4, 2021
Conference at a glance

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Pre–conference Institutes & Workshop
Friday, February 26th, 2021
All times are in US Eastern Time Zone

11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.           
AAHHE – Educational Testing Services (ETS) Latinx Student Success Institute: Policy, Pandemic and Promise: Promoting Latinx Student Success in Urban Communities

Sponsored by ETS

 
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.                     
Latinx Leadership Institute: Leading with Inspiration During the Era of Pandemics
 
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.                     
Community College Institute: How to Lead Community Colleges during Uncertain Times
 
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.         
Workshop: Nuts & Bolts of Writing

Annual Conference
Monday, March 1, 2021
All times are in US Eastern Time Zone

12:00  – 1:00 p.m.
Welcome Program
 
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.                     
37th Annual Tomás Rivera Lecture
John King, JD, President and CEO, The Education Trust

Sponsored by ETS

1:45 – 1:50 p.m.
Conference at a Glance Overview
 
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.                                
Concurrent Sessions
 
Research Paper 8C: Plantando Raices en el Sur: First–Generation Mexican–Origin College Students’ Transformational Impetus in New Destination States

Virtual Room sponsored by Cal State LA Foundation
 
Research Paper 6D: Developing Latinx–Enhancing Online Pandemic Teaching Best Practices
 
Research Paper 6B: The Semillas That Grew from Concrete: The Strength of Formerly Incarcerated Latinx/a/o Students
 
Skill–Buidling Workshop 5B: Using QuantCrit to Engage in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Reflective Practice
 
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Brief social activity – Mindfulness Session
 
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.                     
Concurrent Sessions
 
Outstanding Dissertations Competition, Third Place Winner Dissertation: Uncovering Typologies of Civically Engaged Latinx/a/o College Graduates
 
Research Paper 9A: Chicana/Latina Undergraduate Mujeres Cultivating  Esperanza, Conocimiento, y Resistencia en Sus Familias

Virtual Room Sponsored by Texas A&M University
 
Interactive Symposium 10A: Resisting Marginalization, Dismantling Oppression: The Need to Understand Latinx/a/o/é Student Identities Across the STEM Pipeline
 
Interactive Symposium 10B: Latinx/a/o College Choice during COVID–19: Institutional, Student, and Parent Perspectives at an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions
 
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Brief social activity – Chair Self-body Massage Session
 
4:00 – 4:45 p.m.                     
Concurrent Sessions
 
AAHHE Commissioned Scholarly Paper: Suficiente [Enough]: Reckoning with the Complexities of Anti–Blackness in Higher Education for Latinx/a/o Communities
 
Research Paper 9D: What Does It Mean to be an HSI? Listening to the Voices of Latinx and Non–Latinx Faculty and Administrators of Color 
 
Research Paper 9E: Empowering Latino Men in Higher Education: A Focus on Psychological, Social, and Cultural Factors
 
Interactive Symposium 9F: Futurity of Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o Possibilities in Higher Education
 
Performance, Visual, and Digital Scholarship 1A: The Influences of Mother–Daughter Relationship on Latina Undergraduates’ Persistence
 
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.                     
Networking Café & Social Hour: Meet & Greet with AAHHE Board of Directors & Trivia Night
 

Tuesday, March 2, 2021
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12:00 – 12:10 p.m.
Welcome Program
 
12:10 – 1:10 p.m.       
Plenary Session: Ya es Hora! Addressing Colorism in Latinx Higher Education
 
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.                     
AAHHE Awards: Founders’, Alfredo G. de los Santos, Jr. Distinguished Leadership, University Faculty and Books of the Year
 
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.                     
Concurrent Sessions
 
Outstanding Dissertations Competition, Second Place Winner Dissertation: Bilingual Ways with WordsAn Ethnographic Study of Language and Social Constructions in a Kindergarten Dual Language Class
 
Research Paper 7B: Making it Work: Career Success for Latino Men at Texas Community Colleges

Virtual Room Sponsored by Texas State University
 
Research Paper 6C: Borders of Perceptual Horizons: How Latinidad Is Usurped Within The Neoliberal Higher Education Agenda
 
Skill–Based Workshop 5C: Navigating New Waters: Elevating the Virtual Work of the Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color
 
2:45 – 3:00 pm           
Brief social activity – Chair Yoga Session
 
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.         
Concurrent Sessions
 
AAHHE Commissioned Scholarly Paper: From Testimonios [Testimonies] to Theorizing: Advancing a Higher Education Research Agenda for Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o Communities
 
Research Paper 8A: Developing a Transfer Pipeline to a Research University for Latinx Students using Transfer Receptive Culture

Virtual Room sponsored by California State University - Northridge
 
Interactive Symposium 10C: Latinx–enhancing While Online: Best Practices for HSIs in a Pandemic World
 
Interactive Symposium 10D: Latina Women in STEM: An Asset–Based Approach to Increasing Resilience
 
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.         
Brief social activity – Mindfulness Session
 
4:00 – 4:45 p.m.                     
Concurrent Sessions
 
Poster Session 2D: Advancing Collaboration with Institutions Abroad Through the Fulbright Specialist Program
 
Poster Session 2B: The Learning Assistant Model: Creating Community, Supporting Minoritized Learners’ STEM Identity Development and Identity Integration
 
Poster Session 2A: The Role of Identity Formation on the Undocumented Young Immigrant Student Experience Through Anti–Immigration Federal Policies
 
Poster Session 1C: Understanding the Impact of COVID–19 on Immigrant Families: Mexican–Immigrant Mothers Reflejando A Través Las Letras
 
Poster Session 1B: Latino Male Undergraduates’ Relationship with their Mothers and Academic Persistence (Canceled)
 
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.                     
Networking Café & Social Hour: Pursuing a Doctorate, Loteria Game & Exercise Class
 

Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Welcome Program
 
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.                   
5th Annual Cigarroa Family Medical/STEM Lecture
Alfredo Quiñones–Hinojosa, MD
 
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.                     
AAHHE & ETS Outstanding Dissertations Competitions Awards – 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Sponsored by ETS.
 
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.                     
Concurrent Sessions
 
Outstanding Dissertations Competition, First Place Winner Dissertation: The Impact of Detention Proceedings and Solitary Confinement on Latinx, Transgender, Undocumented and Asylum–Seeking Immigrants
 
Research Paper 8B: Cosechando Esperanza: Rural Latino/a/x Students Access and Success in Postsecondary Education

Virtual Room Sponsored by Fielding University
 
Research Paper 7C: Rethinking Institutional Partnerships and Structures to Expand Student Social Capital for Success
 
Skill–Based Workshop 5D: Project MALES: Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color through a Global Pandemic
 
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.         
Brief social activity – Chair Self-body Massage Session
 
3:00 –  3:45 p.m.                    
Concurrent Sessions
 
AAHHE Commissioned Scholarly Paper: Curando La Comunidad [Curing the Community]: Using Community–Based Practices to Develop the Next Generation of Latinx/a/o Scientists
 
Interactive Symposium 9C: Re–imagining an HSI Community College System through PUENTE

Virtual Room Sponsored by California State University – San Bernardino
 
Research Paper 8D: Associations Between Learning Assistants, Passing Introductory Physics, and Equity: A Quantitative Critical Race Theory Investigation
 
Interactive Symposium 4D: Chicana/Latina Spiritual Activism: Engaging in Advocacy and Activism via Interpersonal, Virtual, and Institutional Spaces
 
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.         
Brief social activity – Chair Yoga Session
 
4:00 –  4:45 p.m.                    
Concurrent Sessions
 
Round Table 4B: (Re)imagining Higher Education for Latina Undergraduates by Sembrando Leadership Semillas through Student Development Practices
 
Round Table 4A: Put Your Funding Where Your Mouth Is: Using Title V Funding to Support Latinx Students
 
Round Table 3C: Hear My Voice: Supporting Success for Parenting and Unhoused Women of Color
 
Round Table 3A: STEM Conceptual Framing
 
Round Table 3B: First Across Educational Borders: Resilient First–generation–to–college Latina/o/x Students Overcoming Intersectional Challenges at Hispanic Serving Institutions
 
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.                     
Networking Café & Social Hour: Digital Networking & Branding, Presente Poetry Slam, Salsa Social
 

Thursday, March 4, 2021
All times are in US Eastern Time Zone

12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Welcome Program
 
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.                   
Plenary Session: COVID–19: Its Impact on the Latina/o/x community and Academia
           
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.                     
AAHHE Awards: Outstanding Support of Hispanic Issues, William Aguilar Cultural Arts, Community College, Early Career, Graduate Student and Distinguished Authors.
 
2:00 –  2:45 p.m.        
Concurrent Sessions
 
AAHHE Commissioned Scholarly Paper: La Lucha por Libertad y Sobrevivencia: Afro–Cuban Higher Education and Economic Mobility in Havana
 
Research Paper 7A: COVID–19 and Its Impact on Latinx Communities and Higher Education

Virtual Room Sponsored by University of Utah – Medical School
 
Round Table 4C: Dual Pandemic Intersection: COVID–19 and Latinas’ Persistence in STEM in the Borderlands
 
Round Table 3D: Implementing a Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Assessing the Needs of First Generation Students' Remote Learning Experiences Due to the COVID–19 Pandemic at a Hispanic Serving Institution
 
2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Concluding Program: Javier Ávila, PhD, The Trouble With My Name