NCID-1469
Jose Del Real Viramontes
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education/Degree:
1 Cultural Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
About
José Del Real Viramontes is a visiting postdoctoral research associate in the Higher Education/Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a faculty affiliate with Project Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success (MALES) at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction with a specialization in cultural studies in education from the University of Texas at Austin.
Current Work
As a first-generation college student and former community college transfer student, Dr. Del Real Viramontes' research focuses on three areas: 1) It highlights how Latinx community college student's exercise their agency when confronting the ideological, structural, and institutional conditions of the community college to the four-year university transfer process. 2) It focuses on how four-year institutions support Latinx community college students, become transfer eligible, apply, enroll, and complete their baccalaureate degrees. 3) It calls attention to how structural and institutional factors divide, constrict, and construct space to impact the educational experiences and opportunities for Latinx community college transfer students based on race.
Research Area Keyword(s)
community colleges, four-year university transfer, Latina/o students, Latinx students, transfer receptive culture