Extraordinary Scholar to Lead Largest Education Research Assn.

"AERA is the world's largest organization for scholars who study K-12 schools, postsecondary institutions, social and policymaking contexts that influence education, and other professions in which teaching and learning activities occur (for example, health care, national defense and nonprofit organizations)."

"Hurtado will be the second Latina and the third higher education scholar to serve in the association's top elected leadership role. This will be Hurtado's second presidency. She led the Association for the Study of Higher Education from 2004 to 2005."

"I have read just about everything Hurtado has published. I am consistently in awe of the topical importance, substance, methodological rigor and theoretical complexity of her studies. Her work is always of the highest quality."

Sylvia Hurtado, a Distinguished Professor at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies, has been elected president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the world's largest organization for education scholars. Hurtado directed UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute for over a decade and previously served on the University of Michigan faculty. She holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. This marks her second presidency, having previously led the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She has been inducted into the National Academy of Education, elected to AERA Council, and selected as an AERA Fellow. Hurtado has authored six books and published over fifty articles in top-tier journals, demonstrating exceptional methodological rigor and theoretical complexity in her research on higher education.

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