Public Scholarship
Assistant Professor of Postsecondary Educational Leadership, College of Education, San Diego State University
This section focuses on making my research, teaching, community engagement, and organizing tools public and accessible. There are three sections: Courses Taught (Syllabi and Assignments), Publications (not paywalled), and Tools/Resources (To support grad students).
CV - Summer 2024
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Felix, E. R., Gándara, D., & Jones, S. (2024). “All students matter”: The place of race in discourse on student debt in a federal higher education policymaking process. Teachers College Record, 126(2), 147-182. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681241247915
Felix, E. R., Galan, C. A., & Jimenez Perez, E. (2024). Carrying the weight of campus change: The role of student equity leaders in community college. The Journal of Higher Education, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2024.2330334
Felix, E. R. & Nienhusser, H. K. (2023). Humanizing policy implementation in higher education through an equity-centered approach. In: Perna, L.W. (ed). Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 39. Springer.
McCambly, H. N., Aguilar-Smith, S., Felix, E. R., Hu, X., & Baber, L. (2023). Community colleges as racialized spaces: Outlining opportunities for equity. Community College Review.
Felix, E. R., & Garcia, F. (2023). Aspirations of attainment: A critical examination of state policy goals and the disparities in the Latinx community. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000466
Felix, E. R., Palomino, P. P., Cantu, L., & Galan, C. A. (2022). Using policy to build equitable Latinx transfer pathways. New Directions for Community College.
Felix, E. R., Ceballos, D. A., Salazar, R., Vedar, E. N. R., & Perez, E. J. (2022). Examining the field of institutional research: Toward more equitable practices. New Directions for Institutional Research, 189, 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1002/IR.20349
Felix, E. R. (2021). Improving racial equity in community college: Developing a plan, implementing the vision. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373721996729
Felix, E. R. (2021). For Latinx, by Latinx: Race-conscious leadership in policy implementation. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(30), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5439
Gonzalez, Á. D. J., Burgos-López, L., Felix, E. R., & Nienhusser, H. K. (2021). Policy implementation as a tool for advancing equity in community college. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(25), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.6689
Felix, E. R. (2021). Leveraging institutional planning to benefit Latinx students. Planning for Higher Education Journal, 49(2), 1-11. https://www.scup.org/resource/leveraging-institutional-planning-to-benefit-latinx-students/
Felix, E. R., Bustillos, L. T., & Bensimon, E. M. (2020). A movement towards equity: Tracing the impact of the Center for Urban Education’s student equity planning institute (SEPI). University of Southern California, Center for Urban Education.
Felix, E. R., & Gonzalez, Á. (2020). Using institutional planning to support men of color in community college. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2020.1841043
Felix, E. R., Trinidad, A., & Estrada, C. (2020). California Community Colleges, the ban on affirmative action, and the restrictions to improving racial equity. Research in Brief Series, Education Trust-West.
Felix, E. R., & Ramirez, R. (2020). Counterstories of policy implementation: Using reform to address Latinx student equity. Journal of Latinos and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2020.1782205
Felix, E. R. (2020). Using State Policy to Improve Latinx Transfer Outcomes in California. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 14(1), 21-48. https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.14.1.332
Felix, E. R., & Trinidad, A. (2019). The decentralization of race: Tracing the dilution of racial equity in educational policy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2019.1681538
Ching, C. D., Felix, E. R., Fernandez Castro, & Trinidad, A. (2018). Achieving racial equity from the bottom up?: The student equity policy in the California community colleges. Education Policy, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0895904818802092
Felix, E. R. (2018) Using ethnography to understanding the transfer process and the impact of policy reform in community college. Berkeley Review of Education, 7(2).
Felix, E. R., & Castro, M. F. (2018). Planning as strategy for improving Black and Latinx student equity: Lessons from nine community colleges. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26(56), 1-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.26.3223
Felix, E. R., Trinidad, A., Ching, C. D., & Bensimon, E. M. (2018). California’s student equity plans policy: An unexploited opportunity among Hispanic-serving community colleges. In A. G. de los Santos Jr., G. F. Keller, R. Tannenbaum, & A. Acereda (Eds.), Moving Forward: Policies, Planning, and Promoting Access of Hispanic College Students, (pp. 75-94). Bilingual Press.
Felix, E. R., & Trinidad, A. (2017) Fulfilling the transfer mission at an urban technical college: How a transfer center mediates baccalaureate aspirations for students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2017.1361877
Harris III, F., Felix, E. R., Bensimon, E. M., Wood, J. L., Mercado, A., Monge, O. & Falcon, V. (2017). Supporting men of color in community colleges: An examination of promising practices and California student equity plans. College Futures Foundation.
Felix, E. R., & Bensimon, E. M. (2016). Hispanic-serving institutions. In K. Lomotey (Ed.), People of Color in the United States Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration, Volume I: Education: K-12 and Higher Education: ABC-CLIO.
Felix, E. R., Bensimon, E. M., Hanson, D., Gray, J., & Klingsmith, L. (2015). Developing agency for equity-minded change. In E. L. Castro (Ed.), Equity in Practice: Critical Inquiry in Community College Contexts. Special volume for New Directions for Community Colleges: Jossey-Bass.