Rate My Professor Patricia Perez

Pérez earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles, an Ed.M. in Education with a concentration in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA. Her scholarly work focuses on Chicanx/a/o education, college choice processes, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status in college access, equity, persistence, retention, and faculty of color retention, utilizing qualitative research methods. Notable publications include editing The Tenure-Track Process for Chicana and Latina Faculty: Experiences of Resisting and Persisting in the Academy (Routledge, 2019) and Facilitating Educational Success for Migrant Farmworker Students in the U.S. (Routledge, 2017). She has secured grants such as a $1.2 million Mellon Foundation award in 2022 for the Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice. Awards include the CSUF College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Service Award (2021), Diversity in Research Award (2017), and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award (2008). Pérez co-founded the CSUF Collective for Justice, Equity and Transformation and participated in numerous leadership institutes on equity and inclusion.