Rate My Professor Angela Locks

Locks' research focuses on college access and experiences for diverse students, emphasizing retention, institutional diversity praxis, and the relationships between student interactions with diverse peers and engagement in diversity programs. She has secured major grants, including a $442,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2018 as Principal Investigator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and funding for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center. Her key publications include co-editing Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education: Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American Students (Routledge) with Rocío Mendoza and Deborah F. Carter; Diversity and Inclusion: Supporting Students of Color in Higher Education, 2nd edition (2019), co-authored with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner; the first edition (2013) with the same co-author; and "Extending Notions of Campus Climate and Diversity to Students’ Transition to College" (Review of Higher Education, 2008) with Sylvia Hurtado, Nicholas Bowman, and Leticia Oseguera. Recognized with awards such as Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Student Engagement in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (2014) and Most Valuable Professor by the College of Education Alumni Association (2014), Locks has delivered presentations at major conferences including AERA, ASHE, and NASPA, influencing higher education practices in diversity and undergraduate research.