Everything I’m not, made me everything I am
Eric R. Felix is the proud son of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants. Born and raised in Anaheim, I’m the product and beneficiary of public education from kindergarten to graduate school. I’m the first in my family to attend and graduate college. I was lucky enough to stumble into Upward Bound and that has made all the difference in my academic trajectory. Now I get to be a faculty member at San Diego State University and do my best to fulfill our state’s promise of providing affordable, quality, and transformative education. I hold three principles dear to me —Partner, Parent, Professor— and do my best to be present and passionate for each. Using Critical Policy Analysis, I explore the ways policymakers craft higher education reform and how institutional leaders implement them. Particularly, I focus on understanding how the implementation of lauded student success reforms may benefit, harm, or render invisible Latinx students and other racially minoritized groups in the community college context. Ultimately, my work highlights the possibilities of policy reform to improve racial equity in higher education.
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In solidarity,
Eric R. Felix