Meredith Dost wins National Paper Award
Meredith Dost, a
Public Policy major and member of the class of 2013, has won Texas A&M
University’s 2013 Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Latino
Politics. Meredith received the award
for her paper entitled “Representative Bureaucracy and Latino Student
Achievement: A Case for Increased Minority Representation on School Boards in
U.S. Public Schools.” This paper was
completed in fulfillment of Professor Paul Manna’s senior seminar on education
policy and politics in Fall 2012, and it is part of her larger Public Policy
honors thesis project. Meredith’s
project examines the relationship between Latino student achievement and Latino
representation in U.S. schools and also considers how Latino representation and
white student achievement are related. Recently, she presented a research poster on her
thesis at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago.
Meredith is a Public Policy and Hispanic Studies double major at the College, hailing from a suburb of Chicago. She plans to eventually continue her academic study of U.S. education policy in graduate school, possibly pursuing a Ph.D. After graduation, she hopes to work in Washington, D.C. in public policy research.
