Rosa Banda

• Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

With diversity, equity, and inclusion being critical factors in diversifying leadership, individuals from marginalized communities frequently face additional barriers to ascension to senior leadership roles. Studies focused on Latinas at the intersection of education and leadership advocate for an effective inclusion of developing safe spaces that...

This qualitative study explains how people made sense of their co-constructed ethnic and racial identities after receiving direct-to-consumer genetic test results for the first time. Three themes surfaced (e.g., searching for deeper belonging, grappling and negotiating identity, and mitigating race and ethnicity) from journal entries and a focus gr...

With the rising needs for an educated workforce to fulfill science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related jobs, it is necessary to increase the number of college graduates from all student populations in the United States. Because student-athletes represent a small portion of students pursuing STEM fields, research continues to be...

Approximately 6% of Latinxs participate in intercollegiate athletics [Lapchick, R. (2020). The 2019 racial and gender report card: College sport. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. https://43530132-36e9-4f52-811a-182c7a91933b.filesusr.com/ugd/7d86e5_d69e3801bb8146f2b08f6e619bcddf22.pdf]; many of these athletes are first-generation col...

This study examines Latino/a students’ experiences with mentorship and its influence on their college persistence at Southern HSI’s. Rendón’s (1994) Validation Theory frames the study to understand Latino/a’ perceptions regarding mentorship as a needed form of validation. Secondary data from two qualitative research projects aiming Latino’s and Lat...

One’s culture has the capacity to nurture and empower. Thereby, college students rely on their cultural capital to persist and graduate. However, the current system of higher education favors one type of culture over others, which presents a number of challenges for those who are members of the non-dominant groups, such as Latinxs, first-generation...

Despite the nation's critical need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college graduates, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I student-athletes represent a small portion of STEM majors. Student-athletes pursuing STEM disciplines benefit from the assistance of academic and athletic advisors; this study e...

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) enroll the majority of Latinx undergraduate students and constitute the second-largest institutional type in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (D1). Yet, little is known about the role intercollegiate athletics play in fostering educational outcomes for Latinx students at HSIs. Under...

This qualitative study gains insight into Latina STEM undergraduate college students’ leadership styles. The gender and ethnicity shared among 10 Latinas influenced their leadership at two regional HSIs. The activities, strategies, and experiences of participants showed their high resilience and ability to thrive in male-dominant STEM fields. The f...

As the Latino population continues to grow in the United States, it is important for Latino youth, and specifically, Latino males, to obtain a college degree. As other demographic groups graduate from colleges and universities across the country, Latino males continue to lag behind their non-Latino peers in obtaining their college degrees. Specific...

In the last 20 years, Latina undergraduate college students have increased their enrollment and degree attainment. However, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines Latinas remain highly underrepresented. The study aims to gain more insight into the roles that peers, faculty, and family play in Latina students' persis...

The gender and ethnicity shared among 10 Latinas influenced their leadership at two regional HSIs. The activities, strategies, and experiences of participants showed their high resilience and ability to thrive in male dominant STEM fields The findings revealed participants' commitment to improving the college experience of younger students in STEM,...

This qualitative study gains insight into Latina STEM undergraduate college students’ leadership styles. The gender and ethnicity shared among 10 Latinas influenced their leadership at two regional HSIs. The activities, strategies, and experiences of participants showed their high resilience and ability to thrive in male-dominant STEM fields.

STEM disciplines remain highly White and male-dominated, particularly in regards to engineering. The climate, as a result, for women of color in engineering remains to be ‘bitter’ cold due to their intersectionality. A case study was employed to understand how 11 Latinas experience their intersectionality within a STEM context in their pursuit of a...

This qualitative case study explored the role of mentoring in the persistence of 10 Latina undergraduate students in STEM disciplines at two distinct Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The study found that in male-dominated disciplines, Latina students’ gender and ethnicity highly infl uenced their experiences. They showed evident preferences fo...

Given the need to increase Black males’ participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), this study employed a multiple case studies approach to investigate the perceptions of identity to STEM possibilities of Black males who participated in advanced placement and math and science courses. A conceptual framework of self-eff...

At the higher education level, Latina college undergraduate students have increased their enrollment and degree attainment in the last decades. However, in disciplines such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Latinas are highly underrepresented. In this qualitative study, 10 Latinas undergraduate college students were interv...

The current administration of the United States has brought to the forefront the hostile sociopolitical climate found within this diverse country as Americans continue to grapple with the intentional, residual effects of the systemic maintenance of oppression. The purpose of this study is to understand the perceptions of climate in the persistence...

Purpose Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), like other universities, are faced with challenges related to faculty diversity. The literature related to faculty at HSIs is scant and so this paper aims to address this gap by problematizing faculty diversity at these institutions. Design/methodology/approach By means of a document analysis, the auth...

This book examines how Martin Luther King's life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. A global icon of freedom, justice, and equality, King is recognized worldwide as a beacon in the struggles of peoples seeking to eradicate oppression, entrenched poverty, social deprivatio...

This book examines how Martin Luther King's life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. A global icon of freedom, justice, and equality, King is recognized worldwide as a beacon in the struggles of peoples seeking to eradicate oppression, entrenched poverty, social deprivatio...

Purpose In an attempt to understand the postsecondary and occupational pathways of minorities who choose to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) pathways, what this paper offers is an examination of literature that focuses on identity. More specifically, this paper aims to present a research argument that highlights the im...

While an abundance of literature addresses undergraduate students’ lack of success in engineering programs, fewer studies examine the persistence of minority females, especially of Latinas. This study employed a qualitative method of inquiry to gain insight into the reasons why Latina undergraduate engineering majors sought membership in student or...