College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Rosa Acevedo, PhD

  • Comparative and International Development Education

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Areas of interest

  • International education
  • Education policy
  • Evaluation studies
Degrees

PhD, Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota
MPA, The University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
BA, Political Science, Bowling Green State University

Biography

I am the founder and executive consultant of RM Administrator Plus Consulting designed to provide affordable access to high quality consulting for organizations servicing the public sector in evaluation and proposal writing. Previously, I served as Lead for the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program through the Institute for International Education in Washington D.C., Director of Horizons Student Support Services (TRIO), Interim Director of the Latino Cultural Center, and Associate Dean of Students at Purdue University, West Lafayette. I led the planning and implementation of global access study abroad experiences for vulnerable students at Purdue and have planned and/or executed study abroad experiences in South Africa, Costa Rica, Spain, Greece, Morocco, and Cuba. My research focus is on first-generation, low-income, students of color participating in study abroad. My research seeks to give voice to vulnerable populations that have traditionally been silenced in literature. With underpinnings in critical race theory and mobility justice, I seek to explore and amplify their subject position at the intersection of various identities and examine how this positionality influences the phenomenon of study abroad.

Publications

Acevedo R. and Milligan J. Building Confidence and Cultural Competencies in First-Generation and Low-Income Students Abroad. The GAPS Think Piece 19:1.