Project MALES faculty affiliate Dr. Sarah Rodriguez home institution highlights her research in a faculty focus video. Dr. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Iowa State University. Dr. Rodriguez has been involved with the Improving Outcomes for Men of Color in Community Colleges Initiative at the Center for Community College Student Engagement and served as the Research Coordinator for Project M.A.L.E.S. (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success), both of which focused on improving educational outcomes for men of color. She has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar, an American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Fellow, and also serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member for the Minority Male Community College Collaborative (M2C3). Her research interests center upon equity, access, and retention issues for Latina/o students in the educational pipeline, with a special focus on the intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. Dr. Rodriguez is a graduate of the Program for Higher Education Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin and holds a Master’s of Education in College Student Personnel from the University of Tennessee as well as a Bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish from Texas A&M University-Commerce. To view Dr. Rodriguez’s faculty focus video click here,
