Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests
Boys and young men of color | College access and equity | Gang youth | Urban Education
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Adrian H. Huerta, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boys and young men of color, college access and equity, and gang-associated populations. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, ECMC Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty/JPB Foundation, and totals over $1.6 million dollars. His scholarship appears in Community College Review, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, Teachers College Record, The Urban Review, Urban Education, and other practitioner and scholarly journals.
He was selected as the winner of the prestigious Early Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in 2022, named a 2022-2024 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and is a past receipt of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship.
Projects
In partnership with Long Beach City College (LBCC), Huerta’s LBCC Phoenix Scholars is designed to increase college access and success for young people who are, or have been, associated with local gangs. The project is entirely funded by a $990,000 U.S. Department of Education grant.
Support Systems for Student Parents in Community Colleges
The report focuses on student parents in two-year colleges to understand how institutions support and engage with equitable practices and resources. The Pullias Center documents the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation.
With generous funding from the ECMC Foundation, Huerta and his team are developing multiple tools and resources to help current, and future men of color programs understand best practices to increase persistence and graduation rates.
Latinx Community College Student-Parents
Huerta received a $19,988 grant from The Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions to study how Latinx student-parents prepare for careers and transition into the labor market.
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