CUE Research to be Presented at 2012 AERA Annual Meeting
Professor of higher education and Center for Urban Education (CUE) co-director Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon and several CUE doctoral students will present their research at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting this year, which is scheduled to take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia from Friday, April 13, to Tuesday, April 17. The theme of this year's meeting is "Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough," which emphasizes the importance of research as a policy tool to improve education and serve the public good, a critical aspect of AERA's mission. Below are descriptions, dates, and times for the research presentations.
Interpretations of the Dream: A LatCrit Analysis of Congressional Statements on the Dream Act
Presenter: Tiffany Jones, USC Rossier School of Education (USC Rossier) Dean's Fellow and CUE Research Assistant
Scheduled Time: Friday, April 13 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm. Room: East Ballroom A
To understand why the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) has been repeatedly rejected by Congress, this paper by Jones includes a LatCrit content analysis of what members of Congress have articulated as their reasons for supporting or opposing the DREAM Act.
Division J Postsecondary Education Session: Developing an Activist Research Agenda
Chair: Dr. Michelle M. Espino, University of Georgia - Athens
Participants: Dr. Benjamin Baez, Florida International University; Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, University of Southern California; Dr. Deborah Santiago, Excelencia in Education; Dr. William G. Tierney, University of Southern California
Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14 - 10:35am - 12:05pm.
Room: West Room 208 + 209
 This is an interactive session about developing an activist research agenda with topics ranging from how the panelists developed their research priorities over time to how they integrate their research with their teaching, service and activist commitments. Presidential Session: The Transformation of Academic Work and the Role of AERA in Encouraging Democracy Chair: Dr. Constance Iloh, University of Southern California
Participants: Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, University of Southern California; Dr. Kevin K. Kumashiro, University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Gary D. Rhoades, University of Arizona; Dr. William G. Tierney, University of Southern California
Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm. Room: West Room 109 + 110 Panelists will address recent forces affecting higher education: budget cutbacks, increases in class size, decreases in college enrollments, growing use of adjunct faculty, the rise of for-profit higher education, tuition hikes, and higher education roadblocks for first-generation students. This session will consider what responses AERA may make in relation to these developments. Presenters: Keith Witham, CUE Research Assistant; Raquel Rall, USC Rossier Doctoral Student Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm. Room: East Ballroom A Witham and Rall co-authored a paper that examines the disparity in degree and certificate offerings among three groups of community college institutions -predominantly white institutions, predominantly black institutions and predominantly Latino institutions. The authors apply their findings on the unequal distribution of credential offerings across these institutions to the inequitable outcomes experienced by underrepresented students of color. The New Stratification: Differentiating Opportunity at Community Colleges by Race and Class in the United States Presenters: Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, University of Southern California; Dr. Gregory M. Anderson, University of Denver Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14 - 4:05pm - 5:35 pm. Room: East Room 17 In their paper, the authors discuss the continuing significance of race and class in higher education and the ongoing struggles that students of color and those from low-income backgrounds experience when seeking access to quality higher education opportunities. They argue that recent efforts to improve data management systems, develop credit recovery strategies, and reduce time-to-degree completion are no substitutes for the labor-intensive investments needed at the institutional level to transform policies, practices and campus culture that continue to impede students of color and those from low-income backgrounds from achieving their educational goals.
Presenter: Robin Bishop, USC Rossier Provost Fellow and CUE Research Assistant
Scheduled Time: Sunday, April 15 - 8:15am - 10:15am. Room: West Room 207
Bishop shares the results of interviews she conducted with members of a former Equity Scorecard team: how they tried to foster equity-mindedness within their college, the kinds of resistance they encountered, and what strategies they used to overcome the resistance.
A Study of Policy Implementation: An Analysis of the California Transfer Legislation, Senate Bill 1440 Presenter: Linda Shieh, CUE Research Assistant Scheduled Time: Monday, April 16 - 8:15am - 9:45am. Room: East Ballroom A 
Shieh's paper examines the purpose of SB 1440, how it frames the transfer problem, and explores implementation issues and their implications in facilitating student transfer. She identifies some unintended consequences stemming from the policy design of the legislation and potential problems that may arise in the implementation of the law.
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