Before beginning her graduate work, Dr. Hernandez worked in student affairs as an academic advisor at UCLA.  She completed her masters in Counseling at Cal State Northridge and moved to the midwest to pursue a doctorate in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University.

Her research centers on the Latino college student experience utilizing historical research, critical race theory, and student development theory.

Title(s): Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., Indiana University M.S., California State University, Northridge B.A., California State University, Chico

Affiliations:

American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)

Research interests:

• Latinos in college.
• Student activism.
• College student development.

Recent publications:

Torres, V.; & Hernandez, E. (2009). Influence of an identified advisor/mentor on urban Latino students’ college experience. Journal of College Student Retention, (11)1, 141-160.

Ziskin, M.B., Hernandez, E., & Gross, J. P. K. (2009). Supplemental Instruction and equity: Assessment of implementation and effects on student persistence.  In Hossler, D., Gross, J. P. K, & Ziskin, M. (Eds.), Readings on Equal Education, 24, 101-120.

Torres, V., & Hernandez, E. (2007). The influence on ethnic identity on self-authorship: A longitudinal study of Latino/a college students. Journal of College Student Development, 48(5), 558-573.

Hernandez, E. (2007). Demanding social change at Indiana University: Latino student activism in the mid-1970s. Indiana University Student Personnel Association Journal, 9-21.