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Access to Higher Education

Patricia D. Lopez, PhD.

Access and Affordability to the California State University (CSU) As Chair of the SJSU California Faculty Association (CFA) Political Action and Legislative Committee, I engaged in numerous efforts to advocate for greater access and affordability to for students seeking to enter the CSU system. Alongside Students for Quality Education (SQE) and fellow CFA campus leadership, [...]

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Immigration and Higher Education Policy As Chair of the San José State University Political Action and Legislative Committee, I had the honor of working with State Asm. Ash Kalra and members of the 2017 and 2018 California State Legislature on Assembly Bill 21, which makes substantial changes to current statute that requires any private college [...]

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It is with great honor that I share the Senate Hispanic Caucus (SHC) and Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) Latina/o K-12 and Higher Education Policy Agenda. As the Principal Investigator of the research agenda and Co-chair of the SHC/MALC Education Task Force, it has been a privilege to collaborate with the 70 participating organizations and [...]

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I’m proud that my recent Op-Ed piece, “Texas Latinos and the Politics of Change,” was published in the Huffington Post, Latino Voices.  The following is the text: Much of today’s reporting on Texas public education has increasingly become a narrow overplay of what we already know. Rather than solely recycling stories about the somber trends [...]

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