Talk: Román Liera presents "Organizational Change and Advancing Racial Equity in Educational Organizations"
Event Date:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
Event Location:
Online via Zoom
Dr. Liera’s study of faculty hiring demonstrates possibilities for institutional transformation while highlighting the conditions under which racism operates to undermine organizational structures,policies, and practices designed to advance racial equity. The study’s implications are interdisciplinaryand can provide insight to researchers, funders, and leaders interested in faculty hiring as a mechanism to advance racial equity.
Román Liera is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership at Montclair State University. He is a qualitative researcher who studies organizational change andracial equity in higher education. As a critical scholar, he draws on organization,sociocultural, and race theories to examine racism in doctoral student socialization, theacademic job market, faculty hiring, reappointment, tenure and promotion, presidentialhiring, and racial equity professional development. Dr. Liera’s work, funded by College Futures, has appeared in American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Teachers CollegeRecord, among others. As a public scholar, he regularly advises administrative andfaculty leaders at elite four-year universities, public four-year universities, communitycolleges, and Hispanic Serving Institutions on equity-minded practices in evaluationcontexts like faculty hiring, faculty retention, and graduate admissions. He is an American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Faculty Fellow and received his PhD in Urban Education Policy from USC, M.A. in Higher Education at Teachers College, Columbia, and B.A. in Psychology at San Diego State.
This lecture will be presented on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 928 4240 1404
Password: 01112024
Password: 01112024
Co-hosted by the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Chicano Studies Research Center
