Stephanie Aguilar

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Blog Post

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2018). From blunders to blessing: How to make the most of the annual ASHE conference. ASHE Grads. https://ashegrads.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/from-blunders-to-blessings-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-annual-ashe-conference/

Book Chapter

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2024). Hispanic-serving institutions: Levers of Latina/o/x/e uplift. Institutional diversity in American postsecondary education. Charlotte, NC, Information Age Publisher.
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Ortega, G. (2024). Academic familismo as refusal. Belonging in higher education: Perspectives and lessons from diverse faculty. (1) 106-118. New York City, New York, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Belonging-in-Higher-Education-Perspectives-and-Lessons-from-Diverse-Faculty/Hartlep-Strayhorn-BonnerII/p/book/9781032442976
• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2021). Doubt: The uninvited educator. Elevating marginalized voices in academe: Lessons to a new generation of scholars. 11-15. New York, NY, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Elevating-Marginalized-Voices-in-Academe-Lessons-for-a-New-Generation-of-Scholars/Templeton-Love-Johnson/p/book/9780367490720#:~:text=Critics'%20Reviews-,Elevating%20Marginalized%20Voices%20in%20Academe%3A%20Lessons%20for%20a%20New%20Generation,%2C%20Indigenous%20and%20Latin*%20people

Book Review

• Aguilar-Smith, S., Myers, D. (2024). Review of the book critiques for transformation: Reimagining colleges and communities for social justice. Review of Higher Education. 47 (4) 561–564. Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/review-higher-education
• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2022). Review of the book becoming Hispanic-serving institutions: Opportunities for colleges and universities. Journal of Latinos and Education. 21 (5) 490–492. Milton Park, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348431.2019.1634574?journalCode=hjle20
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Villarreal, C.D. (2018). Review of the book Hispanic-serving institutions: Advancing research and transformative practice. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal. 12 (1) 168-171. San Antonio, Texas, University of Texas at San Antonio. https://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/AMAE/issue/view/23

Dissertation

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2021). Sources of inequity of the Title V Program: A critical qualitative study of institutional agents’ understanding of Hispanic-serving institutions’ grant-seeking competitiveness. 366. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Encyclopedia Article

• Aguilar-Smith, S., Espinoza, B.D. (2024). The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). The Chicana and Chicano movement: From Aztlán to Zapatistas. Westport, Connecticut, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Praeger. https://www.asburybookcoop.org/book/9781440801303
• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2019). National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Race and ethnicity in the United States: From pre-contact to the present. London, England, Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/race-and-ethnicity-in-america-9781440850967/

Interview Protocol

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2021). Hispanic-serving institutions’ pursuit of Title V funding. Ann Arbor, MI, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Journal Article

• Aguilar-Smith, S., Doran, E.D. (2024). The expansion of Title V: A historical analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans’ program. Educational Policy. 38 (2) 320-349. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epx
• Hall, K.A., Aguilar-Smith, S. (2024). Living in a liminal space: Implications for pre-tenure faculty to refuse loveless neoliberalism. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 1-18. Milton Park, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Franics. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tqse20/current
• Ro, H.K., Aguilar-Smith, S., Anderson, S., Rodriguez, T., Ramon, E., Javier, D. (2024). Attending to STEM in servingness at Hispanic-serving institutions: A systematic review of more than a decade of scholarship. International Journal of STEM Education. 11 (33) London, England, Springer Open. https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com
• McCambly, H.N., Aguilar, S. (2024). Racialized patterns in the distribution of congressional pork: Implications for postsecondary equity and organizational transformation. AERA Open. 10 Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero
• Ortega, G., Aguilar-Smith, S., Lizalde, G., Porras, C. (2024). Barriers to power: Exploring the troubled trajectories of Latinx executive leaders at Hispanic-serving institutions. Innovative Higher Education. 49 299–317. Berlin, Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-023-09649-6
• Marin, P., Aguilar-Smith, S. (2023). The evolving portrayal of Hispanic serving institutions? A systematic review of more than 20 years of research. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. 22 (4) 446–459. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jhh
• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2023). A critical qualitative study of inequities in Hispanic-serving institutions’ grant-seeking competitiveness. Educational Policy. 37 (6) 1637–1671. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epx
• Sanders, N., Pouncil, F., Aguilar-Smith, S., Smith, T.L., Pregent, G. (2023). Making good on our promises to language justice: Spheres of coalitional possibilities across the discipline. College Composition and Communication. 75 (2) 360-388. Urbana, IL, National Council Teachers English. https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/ccc
• McCambly, H.N., Aguilar-Smith, S., Barber, L., Hu, X., Felix, E.R. (2023). Community colleges as racialized organizations: Outlining opportunities for equity. Community College Review. 55 (4) 658–679. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publishers. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crw
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Yun, J. (2023). Toward ensuring the equitable allocation of federal funding: An analysis of Hispanic-serving institutions’ pursuit and receipt of Title V grants. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 31 (58) 1-29. Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University. https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/7281
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Pouncil, F., Aguilar-Smith, N. (2022). Departing for a better world: Advancing linguistic justice through staff professional development. The Peer Review. 5 (3) https://thepeerreview-iwca.org/
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Gonzales, L.D. (2021). A study of community college faculty work expectations: Generous educators and their managed generosity. Community College Journal of Research & Practice. 45 (3) 184-204. Milton Park, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ucjc20
• Aguilar, S. (2021). Seeking to serve or $erve? Hispanic-serving institutions’ pursuit of racialized funding. AERA Open. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero
• Aguilar-Smith, S., Flores, A. (2020). Intergenerational lessons to and from higher ed educators of color. About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience. 25 (2) 20-23. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Aguilar-Smith, S., Crossing, A. (2021). Allowed in the room, but not at the table: Considerations for shared governance.. 6. Washington, D.C., Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/03/02/graduate-students-should-have-more-voice-shared-governance-opinion
• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2020). AAHHE graduate fellows: My critical, but caring, amigxs. Hispanic Outlook Magazine. https://www.hispanicoutlook.com/education-magazine/april-2020-issue

Research Report

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (2024). Serving many in many ways: Hispanic-serving institutions as drivers of opportunity and socioeconomic mobility. Washington, D.C., The Third Way. https://www.thirdway.org/report/serving-many-in-many-ways-hispanic-serving-institutions-as-drivers-of-opportunity-and-socioeconomic-mobility

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Aguilar-Smith, S. (Principal), "UNT 2023-2024 Office of Faculty Success Conference Travel Grant," sponsored by UNT Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2023).