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Senate Faculty
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Maria Estela Zarate
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
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Biography
Maria Estela Zarate earned her B.A. in Mathematical Economic Analysis and Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas and her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Science. Prior to joining the faculty at UCI, she was the Director of Educational Policy Research at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California.
Prof. Zarate’s research interests are equitable access to higher education, college persistence among first-generation students, the educational trajectory of Latino students, family and social context of Latino students’ educational experiences, schooling conditions, and gender differences in schooling experiences. Prof. Zarate has employed various methodological approaches in her research, including survey methods and qualitative methodology.
Prof. Zarate’s interest in college access stemmed from her outreach recruitment efforts while an undergraduate student at Rice University, and later when she became an admissions counselor at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
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