Faiza Jamil is a research grantee examining teacher–student ethno-racial match as a lever to reduce racial and ethnic inequalities in academic outcomes. Jamil currently mentors a diverse research team consisting of five early-career faculty and six doctoral students. Jamil connected her desire to participate in the mentoring program to South Carolina’s demographic trends, noting the need to support the increasing number of Latinx junior scholars. Jamil will use this award to develop the intercultural competence necessary to mentor first-generation Latinx scholars. Jamil also intends to improve how she supports junior scholars in their research and writing by developing a clearly structured, predictable, and staged feedback process. Jamil’s mentee, Nora Hochstetter, is a Mexican American doctoral student at Clemson University. Hochstetter’s goals include building an academic support network, training in advance methodologies for social justice, and identifying field sites for dissertation data collection with long-term English learner youth and their families. Hochstetter will also provide research assistance on Jamil’s Foundation-funded study. Under Jamil’s guidance, Hochstetter will collect, clean, and code teacher race and ethnicity data from state education agencies and prepare a dissertation proposal focused on long-term English learner’s educational experiences.
With this award, Jamil will develop the intercultural competence necessary to mentor first-generation Latinx scholars.
