CANDEL Graduates 2024

Congratulations to the CANDEL graduates of 2024! All graduating students were recognized during the June 2024 commencement ceremony at the Mondavi Center, UC Davis.

Rebecca Kathleen Andersen

Underrepresented and Underestimated: Impact of Interactions During the Career Search Process on Female STEM 

Joshua C. Bennett

 Exploring Culturally Relevant Literature’s Relationship to Students’ Ability to Determine a Theme in a Literary Text 

Caleb L. Fowler

Characterizing the Organizational Identities of California Community Colleges: A Comparison of Manual and Machine Learning Methods.

Eric Garber

Learning from the Districts that Succeed: A Real Path for the Advancement of Low-Income Students in K-12 Education

Rachel L. Henry

Staff and Faculty’s Self-Efficacy Advocating for Transgender and Nonbinary College Students

Allison R. Krasnow

Necessary Conditions: Understanding patterns and inequalities in math course-taking among high school seniors to increase completion of four years of math

Peter Le

Examining Participation and Academic Outcomes of the UC Berkeley TRIO Student Support Services Program for Low-Income, First-Generation Transfer Students

Julian Ledesma

Systemically Marginalized Student Engagement with Holistic Support Programs and their Perceptions of College Success at a Four-Year Research University 

Silvia Elena Marquez

From Compliance to Thriving: Centering the Experiences of Low-Income Latinx and Black Undergraduate Students in the Financial Aid Profession.

Malcolm J. McLemore

Exploring Dark Matter: A Magnification of the Black Male Experience Within Male Success Initiatives at Predominantly White Institutions

Anthony Miranda

Practitioner Inquiry Communities: Re-Mediating Language Ideologies

Sawsan Morrar

School Choice in Sacramento Area Schools and Where Residents Send Their Children

Abigail Patton

The Experiences and Perceptions of Latinx California Community College Presidents in Implementing Equity In Hiring at Hispanic Serving Institutions.  

John Pellman

Why Am I Here? Making Career Education the Focal Point of Secondary Education. 

Isela Pena-Rager

“Be Approachable and Treat Me Like the Capable Person I Am”: Validating Student-Faculty Relationships for Latina First-Generation College Students at an R1 University 

Ola Popoola

Emerging from the Pipeline: Post-Graduation Labor Market Outcomes of Black UC Bachelor’s Degree Recipients

Katrina Traylor Rice

Black Joy in an Urban School

J Sikes

Experiences of California District Intern Program Leaders During COVID-19

Cindy Simmons

Experiential Learning and the Perceived Impacts of Participation: A Study of UC Center Sacramento