Keeping the Higher Education “Promise” in Nevada: Latina/o Legislators Policy Ways of Knowing

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-17-2021

Publication Title

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

First page number:

1

Last page number:

14

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2021. In this case study, I draw attention to key Nevada Latina/o legislators’ policy ways of knowing and their higher education policy priorities. A focus on the policy actors uncovered structural, racial, and cultural assumptions in policy-making often absent in the exclusive analysis of policy interventions. Their policy ways of knowing were shaped in at least three ways: acknowledging and naming the sources of structural inequities, embracing political humility, and challenging policy knowledge-generating practices.

Keywords

Community college; Higher education policy; Latina/o state legislators; Policy ways of knowing; Policymaking

Disciplines

Education Policy | Higher Education

Language

English

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