# Stephan Santa Ramirez, University at Buffalo - The Importance of Embracing Historically Marginalized Students

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Podcast: [The Academic Minute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038)
Published: 2026-06-15T04:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.academicminute.org/p/stephan-santa-ramirez-university
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## Resource

On University at Buffalo Week: What can we learn from embracing historically marginalized students on campuses? Stephen Santa Ramirez , associate professor of higher education at the Graduate School of Education, explores this. Faculty Bio: Stephen Santa-Ramirez is an associate professor of higher education at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. His experiences in U.S. higher education and student affairs include work in multicultural and LGBT+ affairs, residential life and housing services, and migrant student services. In addition to UB, Santa-Ramirez has taught for the Philadelphia Freedom Schools, Michigan State University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Arizona State University.Santa-Ramirez’s personal and professional experiences in higher education – and identity as a scholar-practitioner-advocate – have played formative roles in the development of his research agenda, which centers on the lives and knowledge of historically marginalized and economically neglected students. Broadly, he investigates the historical, ideological, and structural inequities that impact Black, Latinx, Indigenous, migrant and other marginalized communities. By employing critical, student-centered, and asset-based frameworks, he investigates campus racial climate, transitions and belongingness of first-generation students of color, college student activism and resistance, and the various ways race, ethnicity, im/migration status and policy inform the educational experiences of collegians who are undocumented.In addition to authoring a host of book chapters, some of his published peer-reviewed articles can be located in The Review of Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, Journal of First-generation Student Success, Journal of Diversity in Highe…

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