March 28, 2024

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UK’s Vasquez Heilig Named to Hispanics in Better Education and learning Board

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 1, 2021) — College of Kentucky School of Education Dean Julian Vasquez Heilig has been appointed to the American Association of Hispanics in Increased Schooling Board of Administrators. His three-calendar year term starts July 1.

“This is some thing I know would make my grandmothers happy, so I am serving in their memory. Given that their time, Latinx have turn into the major ethnic minority inhabitants in America, but are hugely underrepresented in greater instruction, from educational leaders, to school positions, to student enrollment. Serving on the board of administrators will offer me with added avenues to create ways for additional Latinx students to full higher education degrees, pick job paths in which they can make an impact, this kind of as instructing, and pursue careers in better schooling as faculty, administrators and policymakers. It is an honor to have this possibility.”

The American Affiliation of Hispanics in Higher Education and learning operates collaboratively with all sectors of schooling, business, business, as perfectly as neighborhood and expert businesses, to boost the academic aspirations and to meet up with the wants of a considerably raising Hispanic populace.

“There is substantially a lot more operate to do and no doubt there will be more troubles forward, but I am persuaded that we will refuse to allow adversity to quit us from pressing ahead and generating an unmistakable and lasting influence,” Vasquez Heilig explained.

Vasquez Heilig, a professor of academic policy research and evaluation, has served as dean of the British isles University of Education considering that 2019. He is an award-profitable leader, instructor and researcher and dynamic voice for equity in education in the U.S. and about the planet. Vasquez Heilig will work to move strategies from tutorial journals into the countrywide dialogue, building educational exploration beneficial and related to policymakers and the communities they serve.

Vasquez Heilig beforehand served at California Condition University, Sacramento, as a professor of educational management and plan studies and director of the doctorate in instructional management program. His get the job done in bigger instruction also includes serving on the faculty and as an academic leader at the College of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2014.

A prolific scholar, in the final decade on your own, Vasquez Heilig has been an creator or co-creator on far more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and/or refereed content articles or regulation critiques as effectively as chapters. Matters have been various in range and scope, masking concerns this sort of as racial fairness and teacher planning between quite a few some others.

He has been honored with additional than 30 educating, analysis and assistance recognitions, such as a Ford Basis Fellowship and currently being named Diversity in Training Journal Multicultural Champion of 2015. Legislators commended his impact in instruction by the passage of California Assembly Resolution 1459. He currently serves as co-training chair for the Kentucky Condition Meeting of the NAACP and on the board of the Schott Foundation.

Vasquez Heilig been given his Ph.D. in academic administration and coverage assessment and a master’s diploma in sociology from Stanford College. He also acquired a master’s in better education and a bachelor’s degree in history and psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.