Meet Eric R. Felix, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Postsecondary Educational Leadership, College of Education, San Diego State University
Community College HigherEd Access Leadership Equity Scholarship

Eric R. Felix is the proud son of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants. Born and raised in Anaheim, California, he is the product and beneficiary of public education from kindergarten to graduate school. He is the first in his family to attend and graduate college. Now he is a faculty member at San Diego State University and does his best to fulfill the state’s promise of providing affordable, quality, and transformative education.

Eric holds three principles dear —Partner, Parent, Professor— and does his best to be present and passionate for each.

As an Associate Professor at SDSU, he leads the CCHALES Research Collective which focuses on examining the systems, structures, and practices within higher education that perpetuate racial inequity. Using Critical Policy Analysis, he explores the ways policymakers craft higher education reform and how institutional leaders implement them. Particularly, he focuses on understanding how the implementation of lauded student success reforms may benefit, harm, or render invisible racially minoritized groups in the community college context. Ultimately, his work seeks to highlight the possibilities of policy reform and lift up the institutional stories of organizational change that improves racial equity in education.