Student Associate
| Magda Banda | ||
|---|---|---|
| Degree | Pursuing Ph.D., Cultural and Educational Policy Studies |  |
| Major | Comparative and International Education | |
| E-mail: | mbanda@luc.edu | |
Dissertation Title:
Depopulation and Education: The History of Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Villa Juarez, 1945-2005Education:
Ph.D. candidate, 2004- Present, Cultural and Educational Policy StudiesLoyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
M.A., 2004, Comparative International Education
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A., 1997, International Studies, concentrating in Latin America
Illinois Wesleyan University
Professional Experience:
November 2005-present: Institutional Research Director, Morton College, Cicero, IL. Quantitative data collection and analysis in Office of Institutional Research; reporting to Illinois Community College Board; providing support to assessment activities; fulfilling data requests for faculty/staff/administrators.April 2004-May 2006: Research Assistant, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, Berwyn, IL.
Interviewed participants in leadership programs, civic leaders and policymakers in Chicago area. Interviewed and cleaned data for Rockefeller Immigrant Organizations Project.
August 2004-December 2004, Adjunct Professor, Cultural Anthropology Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Taught undergraduate course in Cultural Anthropology.
August 2002- April 2003, Institutional Development Intern, Richard J. Daley College, Chicago, IL.
Researched grant opportunities in arts, sciences, and community for the College. Worked with statistician on gathering data for grant proposals.
January 2001-May 2001, Acting Coordinator of Campus Activities, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL.
Organized student events for College. Worked on campus-wide committee for Student Orientation planning and restructuring.
Research Interests:
Comparative education and national identity; transnational issues in education; immigration and education; Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American/Chicano issues relating to education in U.S. and Mexico; student concepts of identity; relationship of culture, language and educationPublications and Presentations:
Martha Zurita, Ph.D., with Magda Banda and Alejandra Cano. "Development of Latino Leadership: A Report on the The Chicago Community Trust's Grant Making." University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies, September 2005.Magda Banda and Martha Zurita, Ph.D. "Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in the Chicago Region." presented by Sylvia Puente, Institute for Latino Studies at the Rockefeller Transnational Communities meetings, Cuernavaca, Mexico, September 2005.
"Education & Globalization in a Mexico City School: Escuela Marista Miravalles." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, October 30, 2003.