Andres Castro Samayoa
Program Director, Higher Education, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Andrés Castro Samayoa is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His research connects institutional practices to students's experiences in their collegiate trajectories, with a particular focus on Minority ServingI nstitutions as sites for advancing racial equity in U.S. higher education. Organized around three interlocking strands (federal policies supporting MSIs and minoritized students, minoritized students' navigation of graduate and professional education, and equitable institutional environments and pedagogical practices), his scholarship drawson sociohistorical, qualitative, and quantitative methods to investigate how institutionsmake and remake the conditions for educational opportunity. Castro Samayoa was named one of eleven Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders in Higher Education by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars in 2021. His research has beensupported by The Spencer Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AccessLex, among others, and his work has appeared in leading journals including the American Educational Research Journal, Research in Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and Teachers College Record . He is lead editor of A Primer on Minority Serving Institutions (Routledge, 2019) and co-author of For the Love of Teaching: How Minority Serving Institutions Are Transforming and Diversifying Teacher Education (Teachers CollegePress, 2023). A co-authored book on how Latinx students traverse and transform highereducation is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Castro Samayoa's scholarship carries direct policy relevance: he presented researchfindings at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. in 2018, has offered mediacommentary in outlets including The New York Times and Newsweek, and hasdelivered keynote addresses to institutional leaders across the country.
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- EDUC9864 Advanced Qualitative Research
- ELHE4102 Readings and Research in Educational Administration and Higher Education Administration
- ELHE7102 Readings and Research in Educational Administration and Higher Education Administration
- ELHE8204 Data-Driven Decision-Making I
- ELHE9911 Doctoral Continuation
- ELHE9988 Dissertation Direction
- ERAL1100 First-Year Seminar