Sylvia Hurtado
Department of Education
Distinguished Professor
Point of Contact
Sylvia Hurtado
Special Assistant to the UCLA Chancellor, Latinx Issues
Pronouns: she/her
shurtado@seis.ucla.edu
Bio:
Sylvia Hurtado is a Distinguished Professor of Education in UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies. She previously directed UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute for over a decade and has served as president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Her scholarship examines diverse students’ college experiences, campus racial climate, and STEM pathways and workforce diversification. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and has received major honors from the American Educational Research Association, including its Social Justice in Education Award. Hurtado is also a co-editor of award-winning books on Hispanic Serving Institutions and the educational journeys of Mexican Americans from K-12 through college.
Dialogue Experience/Expertise:
Sylvia Hurtado is a leading scholar of intergroup relations whose work advances how campuses use dialogue to improve learning, belonging, and equity. She has long studied campus racial climate and the educational outcomes that follow when students engage across difference. Her dialogue scholarship centers on the theory and practice of intergroup dialogue, including how facilitation relates to structural inequalities, systems of privilege and oppression, and student well-being. She currently teaches Theory and Practice of Intergroup Dialogue: Building Facilitation Skills, offered as EDUC C124 for undergraduates and concurrently as EDUC C244 for graduate students. Through her teaching and campus leadership, she prepares students to take on facilitation and build stronger community.
