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Tabatha Cruz, a student in the Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development's (OLPD) Higher Education program received the 2024 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

My academic work is at the nexus of research and praxis shaped by my early career as a student affairs practitioner and advisor in federally funded TRIO programs. Access and equity remain at the center of my research inquiry with a focus on…

Over the past fifteen years, my scholarly work has focused on helping college and university leaders build productive relationships with external partners including state policy makers, community partners, alumni, and donors. In pursuing this agenda…

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My current studies focus on understanding the experiences of first-generation and immigrant college students, including food insecurity issues and the impact of career courses on career planning and career decision-making. I teach in the First…

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My scholarship focuses on how educators create environments that are accessible to, nurturing of, and reliant upon people in our diverse communities. I foreground the social role of higher education and investigate equity-oriented change in…

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Calvin D. Phillips, D. Ed. is the Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and serves as the chief student affairs officer of the University of Minnesota multi-campus system. Calvin provides strategic…

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My research explores questions around race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality with relation to college student activism and student development, queer resistance and queer worldmaking in and outside of higher education contexts. I ground my…

My research focuses on the law of higher education and the transition to college. Specifically, I am interested in access to higher education from a legal and policy perspective. I utilize legal research and qualitative case studies in my work on the…

From 2017-2022, I served as the University of Minnesota systemwide vice president for equity and diversity for the university’s five campuses. From 2014-2017, I was the associate vice provost for Equity and Diversity and director of the Institute for…

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My primary research and teaching interests focus on the measurement and assessment of experiential education, community-engaged learning, and community-engaged scholarship in fulfillment of the public purposes of education. I am interested in…