<i>Ganas:</i>From the Individual to the Community, and the Potential for Improving College Going in the “Land That Texas Forgot”

Cabrera, Nolan L.; López, Patricia D.; Sáenz, Victor B.

doi:10.1080/15348431.2012.715499

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“…Results indicate Latino families serve as a catalyst and a support network for Latino males seeking to balance education and personal life. Therefore, findings reinforce existing work on the positive influence of family members on Latina/o students (see, for example, Cabrera et al, 2012;Morales, 2010;Strayhorn, 2010). For many study participants, their families provided a critical source of community cultural wealth in the forms of familial and aspirational capital.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Ovink (2014) identified 41 out of 50 of her Latino/a participants stated their motivation for pursuing higher education was due to their parents' lack of a higher education degree. Cabrera, Lopez, and Sáenz (2012) found that parents play an influential role in student's college choice and continuously reinforce and push them to attend college; the authors call this parental ganas. In another study of Latina/o high school students, Liou et al (2009) stated that high achieving students who planned to enroll in college relied on their family members, peers, and local churches as sources of support but not their school.…”

Section: Family Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Leveraging Their Family Capital: How Latino Males Successfully Navigate the Community College

Sáenz

García-Louis

Drake

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Community College Review

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The purpose of this study is to apply Yosso's community cultural wealth framework to the experiences of Latino male community college students to understand how they balance family obligations, work, and academics while also navigating their educational pathways. Method: The research team conducted 23 semistructured focus groups with 130 Latino male students enrolled full-and part-time at seven distinct community colleges in Texas. Results: Findings reveal the important role family members play in the educational pathway of Latino males who relied heavily on familismo and familial capital as a source of support as they matriculated through the community college environment. Despite entering the community college with multiple sources of community cultural wealth, Latino males had a difficult time navigating their educational experiences due to their first in family, first-generation status, and their apprehension around help-seeking. Contributions: Despite the multiple roles and responsibilities Latino males hold within their family units, they do not pose limitations on their educational pathways; rather, these family relationships motivate Latino males and provide them with support that strengthens their aspirations to persist onto graduation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Family Influencementioning

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Leveraging Their Family Capital: How Latino Males Successfully Navigate the Community College

Sáenz

García-Louis

Drake

et al. 2017

Community College Review

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“…Historically, this region of Texas had lower college-going rates than the rest of the state (Cabrera, López, & Sáenz, 2012).…”

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“…At the same time, Latinas/os have the highest participation in the U.S. workforce (Santiago, Laurel, Martinez, Bonilla, & Labandera, 2019), and with the relative youth of the Latina/o population (Lopez, Krogstad, & Flores, 2018), educational attainment will play a key role in the success of this demographic and of the broader U.S. economy. The events and narrative leading up to STBI demonstrate the pivotal role community activism and ultimately state funding play in uplifting a region that was referred to as the "Land Texas Forgot" (Cabrera, López, & Sáenz, 2012). Figure 1 presents a timeline of important events that set in motion the STBI.…”

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The Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity: A Historical Analysis of the South Texas/Border Initiative

Carales

Doran

2020

Educational Policy

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The purpose of this historical study was to investigate how individuals articulated the call for the South Texas/Border Initiative, a legislative mandate that funneled unprecedented amounts of funding to underserved universities along the Texas-Mexico border region between 1987 and 2003. Utilizing archival sources, we conducted an analysis of the intentional shifts in funding critical to equity and access in higher education. The events surrounding the South Texas/Border Initiative are unique in that they represent purposeful Latina/o community and state-wide activism that challenged higher education funding inequities.

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“…A. Pérez, 2010). In addition, discrimination can play a role in limiting the formation of ganas (Alfaro, Umana-Taylor, Gonzales-Backen, Bamaca, & Zeiders, 2009;N. L. Cabrera, Lopez, & Saenz, 2012).…”

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Portraits of Ganas: The College-Going Pathways of Undocumented Students at a Texas HBCU

Allen

Zhang

Romo

2018

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

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The process of pursuing a higher education degree can be particularly complicated for undocumented students as they navigate the K-16 pipeline. Ganas, or the desire to succeed, is a cultural value that can serve a motivation to overcome educational obstacles. Using portraiture, this article highlights the ways students demonstrated ganas in the ways they prioritized relationships, honored parental sacrifices, and demonstrated resilience. Recommendations for research and practice are offered.

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Ganas:From the Individual to the Community, and the Potential for Improving College Going in the “Land That Texas Forgot”

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Leveraging Their Family Capital: How Latino Males Successfully Navigate the Community College

Leveraging Their Family Capital: How Latino Males Successfully Navigate the Community College

The Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity: A Historical Analysis of the South Texas/Border Initiative

Portraits of Ganas: The College-Going Pathways of Undocumented Students at a Texas HBCU

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