Enrique Aleman, Jr. Assistant Professor 585-5097

Dr. Alemán's Vita

Enrique Alemán, Jr., a native of South Texas, has an undergraduate degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York, New York, and completed his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT he also completed a doctoral certification in Mexican American Studies. His research agenda includes studying the effects of educational policy on Latina/o and Chicana/o students and communities. His professional experiences include being employed with the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, the Bronx Borough President's Office in the Bronx, New York, and most recently, the Texas Education Agency in Austin, Texas. In August 2004, he began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. Alemán has teaching expertise in educational politics and policy, school finance and budgets, and qualitative research methods. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Dr. Alemán has worked as a member of the Utah Achievement Gaps Coalition and the Utah Governor's Working Group on Student Achievement, seeking policy solutions to the achievement gaps that exist in Utah public and higher educational systems. Most recently, he has worked with two of his U colleagues – Dr. Dolores Delgado Bernal and Dr. Octavio Villalpando – in creating and instituting a university-community partnership with Salt Lake City School District 's Jackson Elementary. The partnership, made possible by a University Neighborhood Partners (UNP) grant, works with kindergartners in a Spanish dual immersion program. Named Adelante: A College Awareness and Preparatory Program , the program integrates higher education awareness into their school experience and into the students' personal lives and is designed to present and reinforce college attendance as a viable option for each child in the program. Valuing the rich cultural and language diversity that students bring to the schooling environment, Adelante seeks to support Jackson Elementary's efforts to promote college awareness and the idea that every child has the potential to attend and succeed in college.

Representative courses taught:

ELP 6430: Politics of Education
ELP 6450: School Finance and Budgets
ELP 7440: Educational Policy
ELP 7062: Qualitative Research Methods II
ELP 7960: Latina/os and Educational Policy