Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Raúl Segura for completing his McNair Summer Research Internship!
He worked with mentor Dr. Sarah Johansson on his summer 2024 research, “Teacher Self-Perception in Multicultural Student-Teacher relationships, evaluating biases and efforts to engage with student’s culture.”. Raúl’s research was presented August 15, 2024 at the McNair Summer Research Symposium.
Of his research, Raúl explains:
With the United States growing population we have seen an increase in diverse and multicultural communities, we see that reflection in many of our schools as the population within schools as well and with that we also see in increase in languages and different ethnicities and different cultural backgrounds. However, is the teacher population reflective of the student’s changing population or is there a disconnect between the teacher’s background culture, language and ethnicity and does this create a negative or positive affect on student-teacher relationships, does it create bias and is there an effect on academic progress.
Raúl is an officer for MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan), a campus organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. He is an active member of the EWU Tennis Club, and a student employee at EWU’s Student Communication Center, working on student outreach. Raúl is interested in a School Psychology career. Specifically, he seeks to create an optimal classroom environment for students and teachers of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
