Student Experience Research Network’s Midcareer Fellows Program supported a community of 15 fellows in collectively bridging research on the structures (i.e., practices, policies, and norms) that shape students’ experience of feeling respected as valued people and thinkers in school with current policy topics. The program was funded through grants from the Bezos Family Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and was implemented in partnership with Scholars Strategy Network and Education First. It was designed for midcareer faculty who identify as a member of one or more minoritized groups in the academy and who conduct equity-centered (e.g., liberatory or participatory, asset-based, anti-racist) empirical research on student experience. This slide deck documents the program’s activities, key takeaways and learnings, and early evidence of impact.

Over the course of the program, fellows advanced their knowledge about policymaking and how research is taken up in policy, provided input that influenced the construction of the fellowship, networked with colleagues who bridge research and policy, and developed translational and scholarly projects that targeted academic and policy audiences. Several fellows’ policy briefs, which draw on equity-centered research to address timely and important topics in the education sector, are publicly available at the links below.

POLICY BRIEFS

2021-2022 ADVISORS AND LEADERSHIP

SAPNA CHERYAN

University of Washington Advisor

THOMAS DEE

Stanford University Advisor

MICHAL KURLAENDER

University of California, Davis Advisor

BETHANY LITTLE

EducationCounsel Advisor

MARY MURPHY

Indiana University Advisor

NA’ILAH SUAD NASIR

The Spencer Foundation Advisor

KAREN PITTMAN

Knowledge to Power Catalysts Advisor

SHANETTE PORTER

Student Experience Research Network Fellowship Director

VIVIAN TSENG

William T. Grant Foundation Advisor

2021-2022 FELLOWS

NOLAN L. CABRERA

University of Arizona

REBECCA COVARRUBIAS

University of California, Santa Cruz

MARCELA G. CUELLAR

University of California, Davis

GINA ANN GARCIA

University of Pittsburgh

CONRA GIST

University of Houston

TEHIA STARKER GLASS

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

ELAN HOPE

Policy Research Associates

UMA M. JAYAKUMAR

University of California, Riverside

CHRISTOPHER C. JETT

Georgia State University

AUDREY LUCERO

University of Oregon

XIAOXIA NEWTON

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

LARA PEREZ-FELKNER

Florida State University

YOLANDA SEALEY-RUIZ

Columbia University

SOPHIE TRAWALTER

University of Virginia

CHEZARE A. WARREN

Vanderbilt University