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He worked with mentor\u00a0Dr. Sarah Johansson<\/a><\/strong> on his summer 2024 research, “Teacher Self-Perception in Multicultural Student-Teacher relationships, evaluating biases and efforts to engage with student’s culture.”<\/em>. Ra\u00fal’s <\/strong>research was presented August 15, 2024 at the McNair Summer Research Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of his research, Ra\u00fal explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the United States growing population we have seen an increase in diverse and\u00a0multicultural communities, we see that reflection in many of our schools as the population within\u00a0schools as well and with that we also see in increase in languages and different ethnicities and\u00a0different cultural backgrounds. However, is the teacher population reflective of the student\u2019s\u00a0changing population or is there a disconnect between the teacher\u2019s background culture, language\u00a0and ethnicity and does this create a negative or positive affect on student-teacher relationships,\u00a0does it create bias and is there an effect on academic progress.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Ra\u00fal is an officer for\u00a0MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan)<\/strong><\/a>, 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\u2019s Student Communication Center, working on student outreach. Ra\u00fal 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Ra\u00fal Segura for completing his McNair Summer Research Internship! He worked with mentor\u00a0Dr. 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.”. Ra\u00fal’s research was presented August 15, 2024 at the McNair Summer Research Symposium. Of his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":37211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,28,31,738,799,707],"tags":[759,134,301,98],"class_list":["post-37219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-2024-cohort","category-news","category-psychology","category-raul-segura","category-school-psychology","category-sri","tag-dr-sarah-johansson","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-mentor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37224,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions\/37224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n