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Siduri Haslerig

Graduate Trainee - Higher Education and Organizational Change
Advisors: Professor Walter Allen
Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2007
Undergraduate School/Major: Swarthmore College/Sociology of Education, English Literature
Email: shaslerig@gmail.com

Research:
My primary research interest is access to higher education for urban students in public schools. My undergraduate thesis studied the college counseling process at a charter school in Philadelphia and, specifically, how this school utilized the standards and accountability discourses to legitimate an extremely positive college-going culture. My research continues to be guided by these central questions: What effect does the school's environment have on college attendance; in what ways does school culture differ from/intersect with preparation to help students gain admission to college; in what ways do race, urban location, socio-economic status, sexual orientation and/or ethnicity interact with society and school culture to effect whether students pursue higher education? Although school culture is important and pervasive, it is often enacted through the interactions of individuals so understanding those relationships is important to understanding how school culture develops as a whole. College counselors are not the only actors who affect a school's college-going culture, however they are uniquely responsible for developing and implementing such a culture. As a result, I also seek to understand how college counselors enable and/or restrict college access.

Publications and conference presentations:

Haslerig, Siduri. (2009, April). Reframing the Discourse of the Standards Movement: An Approach to Legitimize College Preparatory Programs. Paper presentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego.

Haslerig, S., and Vue, R. (2009, August) Problematizing the Post-Race Paradigm: Post-Soul Intersectionality as an alternative framework to understand how Black college students defined diversity during their college choice process. Roundtable presentation at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), San Francisco, CA.

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