Category: Colleagues

Latinx college students are struggling with self-hate, counselors can help, CU Denver scholar finds Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, PhD, urges college counselors to acknowledge Latinx students’ experiences with discrimination and help them navigate their feelings without internalizing guilt, or worse, start hating themselves. “My hope is for the student to realize that racism is not the student’s…

Denver7: Politics Unplugged CU Denver professor says caravan images can lead to internalized racism Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor counseling at the University of Colorado Denver, recently worked on a study looking at how repeated exposure to racism predicts internalized racism – or self-hatred – in Latino undergraduate students. Dr. Hipolito-Delgado talks about his study…

Exposure to racism made undergraduate Latino students internalize self-hatred, CU Denver study finds Professor wanted to conduct study following increase in racist rhetoric after 2016 presidential election A Colorado professor wondered how racist rhetoric stoked by the 2016 presidential election was impacting Latino students, so he conducted academic research that found exposure to racism often…

Pathways2Teaching, meanwhile, is a nationally recognized initiative founded by CU Denver Professor Margarita Bianco that aims to get more minority students into classrooms to better reflect the diversity of a local student population, Schultz said. Students of color interested in teaching face a variety of barriers, including poverty, language and being first-generation college students, said…