Championing Hispanic Student Success following Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico

Puerto, Carla López del; Bellido, Carmen M.; Suárez, Oscar Marcelo; Alfaro, Mónica; Jimenez, Manuel A.

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“… Build and renovate educational facilities that can endure natural calamities and maintain them properly. [ 27 , 42 ] Collaborative programs with other institutions Increased number of students participating in an exchange or collaborative programs. Form alliances with other organizations to offer students to other learning opportunities.…”

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“…Resilient infrastructure can assist educational institutions in withstanding the physical effects of calamities while preserving a positive learning environment for students [ 27 ]. This can involve renovating existing structures, designing new construction to be more disaster-resistant, and creating backup plans for keeping vital services running in an emergency [ 42 ].…”

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“…Furthermore, empirical investigations into this issue have been impeded by the lack of thorough and trustworthy data on student enrollment in the aftermath of natural disasters. Existing research has highlighted the impact of natural disasters on the infrastructure of educational institutions [ [25] , [26] , [27] ], academic funtions [ 10 , 28 , 29 ], and students and staff's mental health [ 12 , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] ]. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the adverse impact of natural disasters on student enrollement is required to face future education resilience.…”

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“…Findings from disaster studies research suggest, for example, that communal coping strategies can mitigate the short-and long-term challenges to mental health (Afifi, Felix, and Afifi 2012). A study that was implemented following hurricanes and earthquakes in Puerto Rico demonstrated that projects designed to provide ongoing socioemotional support, academic resources, and a sense of purpose reduced attrition rates among university students (Lopez et al 2021). Online writing groups (OWGs) designed around these insights can provide spaces of academic solidarity and task focus to assist researchers who are struggling to return to work and to find community while coping with traumatic events.This article presents a blueprint for post-disaster OWGs that scholars can use to support affected colleagues in their own circles.…”

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This article develops a blueprint for creating online writing groups (OWGs) to support scholars who are directly and indirectly affected by disaster. Those who are living in regions affected by natural disasters face a severe psychological toll along with physical and logistical challenges. Furthermore, scholars in the diaspora who are watching their colleagues go about daily life while they struggle to meet writing deadlines can also experience detrimental psychological effects, including isolation anxiety. Findings from disaster studies research suggest that communal coping strategies can mitigate the short- and long-term challenges to mental health, including spiraling concerns about productivity that, in turn, inhibit productivity. My research builds on these studies, as well as analyses of virtual platforms used during the COVID-19 pandemic, to identify specific aspects of OWGs that can provide community and structure for scholars in the wake of natural disasters. I draw from my experience of creating and hosting a Zoom writing group for scholars from Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the February 2023 earthquakes. In addition to participant observation of more than 240 two-hour sessions held over 42 weeks between March and December 2023, I draw from a survey-based assessment and email correspondence with participants to develop a best-practices model that I hope other scholars will replicate.

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“…vi. Strategies to improve the resiliency and adaptability of students upon unforeseen distressful events such as storms, earthquakes, pandemics, and the stressful situation ensued by them while maintaining focus on their study objectives [3]. The synergy developed with other concurrent initiatives revealed that, in the aftermath of multi-hazardous events, faculty and administrators must not expect that at-risk students will spontaneously seek the services they could need to thrive and succeed.…”

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Board 356: Perspectives from an Intervention Model to Improve Retention and Success Among Low-income Hispanic Engineering Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and has been successful in obtaining funding and publishing for various research projects. She's also the founder and advisor of the first ASEE student chapter in Puerto Rico at UPRM. Her research interests include investigating students' understanding of difficult concepts in engineering sciences, especially for underrepresented populations (Hispanic students). She has studied the effectiveness engineering concept inventories (Statics Concept Inventory -CATS and the Thermal and Transport Concept Inventory -TTCI) for diagnostic assessment and cultural differences among bilingual students. She has also contributed to the training and development of faculty in developing and evaluating various engineering curriculum and courses at UPRM, applying the outcome-based educational framework.She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She's also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students' motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.

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Championing Hispanic Student Success following Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Impact of natural disasters on student enrollment in higher education programs: A systematic review

Impact of natural disasters on student enrollment in higher education programs: A systematic review

Academic Solidarity in the Wake of Disaster: Blueprint for an Online Writing Support Group

Board 356: Perspectives from an Intervention Model to Improve Retention and Success Among Low-income Hispanic Engineering Students

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