Stephanie Aguilar-Smith

Dr. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith is an assistant professor at the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education (MIHE). Prior to joining MIHE, Dr. Aguilar-Smith served on the faculty at the University of North Texas, following a higher education career spanning enrollment management, academic advising, program development, and writing center administration across several research universities.

Her critically bent research straddles organizational and policy studies, broadly examining the reproduction of (racialized) inequalities within the hierarchical and stratified system of U.S. higher education. In particular, her work centers Minority-Serving Institutions, especially Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and focuses on higher education funding policies.