{"id":17217,"date":"2020-12-23T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hets.org\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:39:03","slug":"dr-sylvia-t-gonzales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/dr-sylvia-t-gonzales\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia T. Gonzales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sylvia-2-Gonzalez-560x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16577\" width=\"233\" height=\"233\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvia T. Gonzales is the HSI STEM Impact &amp; MAESTROS Director, member of the Hispanic Policy Network, and US1100 faculty.\u00a0 Sylvia is the first in her family to go to college and is working on her Ed.D. in Positive Organizational Leadership from Abilene Christian University.\u00a0 Sylvia continues to ensure the undergraduate student experience is authentic as she has served as an advocate, mentor, and leader to underrepresented college students for 21 years.\u00a0 She has helped with the grassroots development of 6 federal grant programs in TX\/NM, including Title III, V, and TRIO grants. She is also an active member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutional Educators and helped establish the Bobcat Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) certificate program and serves as co-chair on the First Gen Proud Working Group at Texas State University.\u00a0 Sylvia has received numerous awards and recognition for her contributions, including Angelika Lester Wahl Diversity Award, HPN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Latinx Star Award, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Program to Watch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d designation by Excelencia in Education, Bright Spots in Hispanic Education, and NASPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &amp; Studer Foundation First-Gen Forward designation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia T. Gonzales is the HSI STEM Impact &amp; MAESTROS Director, member of the Hispanic Policy Network, and US1100 faculty.\u00a0 Sylvia is the first in her family to go to college and is working on her Ed.D. in Positive Organizational Leadership from Abilene Christian University.\u00a0 Sylvia continues to ensure the undergraduate student experience is authentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reference-posted","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rcontreras","author_link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/author\/rcontreras\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}