A partnership blooms after UA dissertation highlights recruitment biases in higher ed

Jan. 31, 2022
student sitting across from Felisia Tagaban Gaskin supporting Indigenous high schoolers in higher education

Dr. Karina Salazar is an assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the UA and was in the department's doctoral program. As a doctoral student, she asked in her 2019 dissertation how universities recruit and which students they tried to woo. Read more about how her findings inspired a program to connect students from a local majority Hispanic, low-income school district to University of Arizona recruiters.