Student Affairs Faculty

Educational Background
• Ph.D. Higher Education, Claremont Graduate University/San Diego State University
• M.S. Student Affairs in Higher Education, Colorado State University
• B.A. Urban Studies and Planning, University of California at San Diego
Teaching Profession
  Courses regularly taught
• Introduction to Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
• Practitioner as Researcher

Courses Taught Previously
• The Psychology of Teaching and Structures of Information for Human Learning (emphasis on diversity in higher education/college student development)
• Learning Communities in the University
• The University in Society
• Foundations of Democratic Schooling
• Multicultural Methods and Curriculum in Language Arts

Current Research Interests
• Equity and diversity issues in higher education
• Theory and practice in student affairs
• College student development
• Experience of students of color on college campuses

Selected Academic Presentations
• The Bicultural Experience: A case study of Filipino/a American College Students. American Educational Research Association, April, 2005.
• Ethnic Identity as a Critical Student Development Outcome in Higher Education. The Association for Institutional Research, May, 2005
• Critical Perspectives on Engineering and Transforming the Doctoral Process: Ethnically Diverse Voices. American Educational Research Association, April, 2004
• The Edge of Each Others Battles: Social Justice SIGs and Community Activists Organizing across Differences. American Educational Research Association, April, 2004
• A Qualitative Study of the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity as a Critical Student Development Outcome in Higher Education, American Educational Research Association, April, 2002
• The Relationship between Self Esteem and Career Choice Behaviors Among Asian American High School Students, Filipino American Educators Association of California October 2001
• Voices of the Filipino American Family, Filipino American Educators Association of California, October 2001
• The State of Filipino Americans in Higher Education: Roundtable: Filipino American Educators Association of California, October 2001
• The Relationship Between Personal/Collective Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Family Environment, Role Models, and Career Choice Behaviors Among Asian American High School Students, Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, March 2000
• Recruitment, retention and graduation placement strategies, Presenter, Penn State TRIO Training Institute: Student Support Services and McNair Post Baccalaureate, Jan 1999
• The effects of family and college environments on Filipino American college students, Association for the Study of Higher Education, November 1998

Selected Professional Affiliations
• Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
• National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)