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.

• 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 PreCalculus from Gatekeeper to Gateway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Mathematics Association of America (in press), Elsa Y. Villa, Lawrence M. Lesser, Erika L. Mein.
• 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.
• Panel: Influencing Culture and Curriculum Via Revolution Proceedings of the 47th Frontiers in Education Conference (in press), Elsa Y. Villa.
• Academic biliteracy in college: borderland undergraduate engineering students’ mobilization of semiotic resources. In Academic biliteracies: Multilingual repertoires in higher education. Multilingual Matters (2017), Alberto Esquinca, Erika L. Mein, Elsa Y. Villa, Angelica Monarrez.
• Using In-Depth Interviews as a Primary Source of Data for Developing Case Studies SAGE Research Methods Cases - Education (in press), Elsa Y. Villa.
• Engineering Education through the Latina Lens Journal of Education and Learning 5 4 (2016), Elsa Y. Villa, Luciene S. Wandermurem, , Alberto Esquinca.

• 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.
• 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.
• Influencing culture and curriculum via revolution (2017), Volume Indianapolis, IN, Elsa Y. Villa.
• "You are Leaders": Latinx College Students Learning to Act and Talk like Engineers (2017), Volume El Paso, TX-Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Alberto Esquinca, Elsa Y. Villa.
• Latinas constructing engineering identities: The role of key people and informal learning activities (2016), Volume Baltimore, MD, Alberto Esquinca, Elsa Y. Villa, Luciene S. Wandermurem, Elaine M. Hampton, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri.

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