The UCSB Blum Center is pleased to announce our inaugural cohort of Central Coast Regional Equity Research Award recipients. The purpose of these awards is to encourage collaborative research that contributes to CCREI’s goals. Please see below for an overview of their research projects supported by this funding. More information is also available on the UCSB Blum Center’s website here.
Announcing the 2023-2024 Recipients
Equity and access to legal information along the Central Coast: Know Your Rights in P’urhépecha
Using the tools of language documentation and linguistic analysis, this project mobilizes information in the ACLU’s Know Your Rights resource by translating it from Spanish to P’urhépecha, an Indigenous language native to Michoacán that is spoken by many essential workers within UCSB’s footprint.
Eric Campbell | Linguistics
Martin Gabriel Ruiz | P’urhépecha educator and language activist
Promoting Financial Aid Awareness and Post-Secondary Access Among Undocumented High School Students
This study explores how school personnel (administrators, school counselors, and other support staff) inform students attending high schools with large numbers of likely undocumented students about their eligibility to apply for state financial aid through the California Dream Act and their right to pay for in-state tuition.
Maria Romo-González | Gevirtz Graduate School of Education