Race-Conscious Policy Implementation
At its core, my work is focused on understanding and uplifting the ways people in higher education use policy to improve the conditions for racially minoritized students and colleagues. The work here explores the ways institutions and practitioners use educational policy and its implementation as a tool to improve racial equity on campus. Uncover the contexts, conditions, and characteristics that allow for race-conscious implementation to occur in community colleges and beyond. Check out the work below that explores “sites of opportunity” to help us learn how policies can be used to address racial disparities.
Imagining Policy and its Implementation in More Expansive Ways
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
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. & 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.
Understanding How Community Colleges Operate as Racialized Spaces
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., 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
Supporting Practitioners To Use Policy to Advance Latinx Transfer Equity
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/
Recognizing and Resisting the Dilution of Race in Policymaking
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
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://doiFelix, 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.org/10.1177/01614681241247915