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STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Dr. Rosalinda Ortiz in the Communication Studies Department at Tarleton State University was awarded Ball State University\u2019s Distinguished Dissertation Award for her research on Hispanic students\u2019 progress through dual credit programs.<\/p>\n
Dr. Amanda Latz, Ortiz\u2019s adviser, nominated her dissertation,\u00a0Illuminating Liminal Spaces: A Phenomenological Investigation of Hispanic Students\u2019 First-Year Experience at a Four-Year University with Prior Dual Credits<\/em>, for the award.<\/p>\n \u201cResearching this topic more in depth would be a great way to help students get a leg up on college, especially for first-generation Latino students who, like me, didn\u2019t have the experience or understanding of the college process,\u201d said Ortiz, who earned her EdD in higher education from Ball State in 2020.<\/p>\n Next, she hopes to complete a proposal for a book that would encompass all of the longitudinal research that she and a cohort of students conducted.<\/p>\n Ortiz began at Tarleton this year and teaches public speaking and organizational communication courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Rosalinda Ortiz in the Communication Studies Department at Tarleton State University was awarded Ball State University’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for her research on Hispanic students’ progress through dual credit programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-85-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Academics & Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Academics & Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 2, 2021","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 2, 2021 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025 3:52 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Smiling person wearing glasses outdoors with trees in the background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53787,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions\/53787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}