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Edgar F. Lopez

A First-Generation Latino College Student

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

Biography

Edgar Fidel Lopez is a Ph.D. student in the Urban Education Policy program at the USC Rossier School of Education and Research Associate at the Pullias Center for Higher Education. His research interests center on (1) investigating the various layers of structural inequality on first-generation/low-income college students, (2) exploring the faculty-student mentoring relationships and academic socialization at the graduate education, and (4) identifying how students of color persist in a negative campus climate. 

He obtained two Bachelor’s degrees and completed a minor in Education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He then completed his M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. While in Austin, he worked as a Site Coordinator for Project Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success (MALES) and as the Program Coordinator for the College Assistance Migrant Program at St. Edward’s University. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a 2012 Gates Millennium Scholarship Recipient. 

Email: Eflopez@usc.edu
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EDUCATION

University of Southern California (USC) [CURRENT]
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Urban Education Policy

University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin)
Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Educational Leadership & Policy

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science & Chicana/o Studies


PUBLICATIONS

Dizon, J. P., Salazar, M., Yucel, E., & Lopez, E. F. (2020). Campus Policing: A Guide for Higher Education Leaders. University of Southern California – Rossier Pullias Center for Higher Education. Retrieved from https://pullias.usc.edu/download/campus-policing-report/

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