Elsa Villa received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University in 2010. She received her bachelor's degree in mathematics and master degrees in computer science and education from The University of Texas at El Paso.

• Hopper Dean Foundation Endowment - Hopper Dean Endowment (11/03/2021)

• Ph D in Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University (2010)
• MA in Education, The University of Texas at El Paso (2006)
• MS in Computer Science , The University of Texas at El Paso (1991)
• BS in Mathematics, The University of Texas at El Paso (1967)

• Shifting Pre-Calculus from Gatekeeper to Gateway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Mathematics Association of America MAA Notes 96 (2023), Elsa Y. Villa, Lawrence M. Lesser, Erika L. Mein.
• The affordances and constraints of social networks among Latina engineering students (2021), Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Elsa Y. Villa, Angelica Monarrez.
• The CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance: Realizing Collective Impact In Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2020 (2020), Elsa Y. Villa, Ann C. Gates, Sanga Kim, David Knight.
• “Is engineering for me?”: Examining struggles and challenges of Latinas in undergraduate engineering studies Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology: Special Edition—The Challenge of Being Latina, Personal, Political, and Economic—Education and Vocational Concerns 26 4 (2019), Elsa Y. Villa, Elaine Hampton, Helena M. Guerra.
• Wrestling with Retention in the CS Major: Report from the ACM Retention Committee Proceedings of the 50th SIGSCE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 50 (2019), Elsa Villa.
• A National INCLUDES Effort to Integrate Problem-Solving Skills into Computer Science Curriculum Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (2019), Ann C. Gates, Elsa Y. Villa, Sarah Hugs, Christina Convertino, Johannes Strobel.
• Retention in Computer Science Undergraduate Programs in the U.S.: Data Challenges and Promising Interventions ACM (2018), Elsa Y. Villa.
• Minority Voices: Interrupting the Social Environment to Retain Undergraduates in Computing Inroads 9/3 (in press), Elsa Villa.
• The Challenges of Tracking and Understanding Student Retention in the CS Major Proceedings of the RESPECT Conference (2018), Chris Stephenson, Lecia Barker, Mehran Sahami, Elsa Y. Villa, Stuart Zweben.
• Navigating hurdles into and through undergraduate engineering and computer science studies Peter Lang Publishing (2018), Elsa Y. Villa, Elaine M. Hampton, Pei-Ling Hsu.

• Findings from a Pre-Calculus Intervention to Shift Pre-Calculus to a Gateway Course (2020), Elsa Y. Villa, Maria C. Mariani, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Nada F. Al-Hanna.
• The CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance: Realizing Collective Impact (2020), Elsa Y. Villa, Ann C. Gates, Sanga Kim, David Knight.
• Examining the Integration of Cooperative Learning into a College-Level Pre-Calculus Workshop on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Elsa Y. Villa, Sarah Hugs, McKay Mike.
• Transforming Student Learning in Pre-Calculus at a Hispanic Serving Institution on the U.S.-Mexico Border. (2018), Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Elsa Y. Villa, Alberto Esquinca, Diana Camberos, Helena Mucino.

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