Academic Profiling

 

"Academic Profiling:

What's happening in our schools, and why

should we care?"

 

 

This talk focuses on Gilda Ochoa's award-winning book Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans and the Achievement Gap. At a time when politicians and pundits debate the sources of an achievement gap, this talk uses powerful interviews from students, educators, and parents to expose multiple gaps reproducing ​racial, class, and gender inequalities. In spite of these patterns of inequality, this work finds hope in the students and teachers who resist academic profiling. 

 

Following her presentation, Ms. Ochoa will facilitate a discussion focusing on developing a blueprint for an institutional and pedagogical action plan.

 

Thursday, 14 April 2016

11am – 1pm ¨ Rm. 5401/Polycom N3213

 

Gilda L. Ochoa is Professor of Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College and currently the 2016 Susan Currier Visiting Professor for Teaching Excellence at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She writes and teaches on Latinas/os, education, and race/ethnicity. Her newest book, Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap (2013) was named as in a Huffington Post article as one of 35 books that all educators of African American and Latino students must read. It has also received awards from the Asian American Studies Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Society for the Study of Social Problem for its focus on race and eradicating racism. Ochoa's earlier books include Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community (2004), Learning from Latino Teachers (2007), and Latina/o Los Angeles (2005), co-edited with her brother Enrique C. Ochoa. Her work has also appeared in Rethinking Schools, Truthout, CounterPunch, Alternet, and LA Progressive.

 

A product of public schools, Ochoa was born and raised in La Puente and Hacienda Heights, California. She received her B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Irvine and her Ph.D. from UCLA.

 

This event is a collaborative effort between the Human Development Division

& the Cultural Diversity/Student Equity Committee.

For more information about the event, Contact Bailey Drechsler bdrechsl@cuesta.edu