Latinos & Economic Security

Carlos Manuel Haro, Ph.D.

Assistant Director Emeritus
Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Carlos Manuel Haro has a BA, MA and Ph.D. from UCLA and his research interests include Chicano education and the history of Chicanos and the schools, oral history research, and comparative and international education. Dr. Haro retired in 2008 from UCLA after 32 years during which he served as the assistant to the director and then Assistant Dean of UCLA’s International Studies and Overseas Programs from 1983-2001. He also served as the Program Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) from 1975-1983 and then as Assistant Director from 2002-2007.

While at the CSRC he coordi­nated the research activities of the Center, including a research grants pro­gram, a postdoctoral and graduate fellowship pro­gram, and faculty development and visiting scholar program. In addition, he undertook and directed specific education research projects and scholarly conferences. 

In 2006 he coordinated the symposium, Sal Castro and the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference: The Development of Chicano Leadership since 1963. In 2005 he coordinated the conference, The Sleepy Lagoon Case, Constitutional Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy; in 2004, he organized the Center-sponsored conference, Mendez v. Westminster School District: Paving the Path for School Desegregation and the Brown Decision. He was also responsible for the Annual Latina/o Education Summit series at UCLA dealing with the educational pipeline from K – Graduate studies; in 2006,he and Professor Daniel Solórzano organized the Latina/o Education Summit – Falling through the Cracks: Critical Transitions in the Latina/o Educational Pipeline. The goal of the 2007 summit, California Community College Students: Understanding the Latina/o Transfer Experience Through All Segments of Postsecondary Education, was to focus attention on the community college segment and the Latina/o transfer student perspective.  The third CSRC Latina/o education summit, K-12 Education: What Can School Board Members and School Superintendents Do to Assure Student Success? dealt with governance and policy-making, while the fourth annual summit, held May 2009, Critical Issues for Immigrant and Undocumented Students in the Latina/o Education Pipeline focused on how policy and practices affect these students by looking at the obstacles that limit their opportunities and their access to education, the programs that serve them, and their academic success.

His publications include Criticisms of Traditional Postsecondary School Admissions Criteria:  A Search for Alternatives, Mexicano/Chicano Concerns and School Deseg­regation in Los Angeles, and The Bakke Decision: The Question of Chicano Ac­cess to Higher Education. He also co-authored Mendez v. Westminster: Paving the Way for School Desegregation and co-edited International Education in the New Global Era: Proceedings of a National Policy Conference on the Higher Education Act, Title VI, and Fulbright-Hays Programs.

The Carlos M. Haro Collection on the Crawford Desegregation Case was donated to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Archive in 1983 and includes materials that Dr. Haro collected for the research he was conducting for the publication Mexicano/Chicano Concerns and School Deseg­regation in Los Angeles (1977), and materials he compiled while on the Los Angeles School Desegregation Monitoring Committee (1980-1982). Upon his retirement from UCLA in 2008, the CSRC established The Carlos M. Haro Scholarship Fund to support UCLA students conducting research in the area of Chicana/o education.