Comunidades Latinas Académicas con Visión de Éxito (CLAVE) [Latino Academic Communities with Vision of Success] Graduate Student Institute: A Year in Review

The CLAVE Graduate Student Institute seeks to extend NLU’s capacity to serve Latinx students at the graduate level. With a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Promote Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic American students (PPOHA), NCE’s Ruth Quiroa and Jason Stegemoller are leading CLAVE’s cohesive set of activities designed to:

• Increase enrollment of Hispanic Students in Masters and Doctoral Programs to 25%.
• Develop and support a network of promising diverse doctoral scholars through the CLAVE Fellowship Program.
• Increase graduate students’ professional networks, writing capacity, and financial and professional knowledge base.

Part of the CLAVE project includes creation of graduate fellowships to increase Fellows’ professional networks, writing capacity, and financial and professional knowledge base. Since the commencement of CLAVE, fellowships have been awarded to postdoctoral associates:

Estee Hernández
Mónica Ramos

Doctoral associates:

Guadalupe Barrios, Community Psychology
Toni Carmichael, Teaching & Learning (Curriculum, Advocacy, & Policy)
Isabel Castro, Higher Education Leadership
Dora Guzman, Teaching & Learning (Reading, Language, & Literacy)
Stephanie Herrera, Higher Education Leadership
Alondra Medina-Reyes, Clinical Psychology
Luis Narvaez, Higher Education Leadership
Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Community Psychology
Azalia Torres, Clinical Psychology;
Alma M. Vera, Teaching & Learning (Reading, Language, & Literacy)

For more about CLAVE and the Centro de Excelencia click here.