Reynaldo Macías

Dr. Reynaldo F. Macías has joint faculty appointments in the departments of Chicana & Chicano Studies, Education, and Applied Linguistics. He is the author, co author, and editor of 6 books and over three dozen research articles and chapters on such topics as bilingual education, teacher supply and demand, Chicanos and schooling, adult literacy, language choice, analyses of national language survey data, population projections, language policies, and media research. His current research activities are in language policy/politics/demography, adult literacy and teacher studies. He is a regular consultant to state policy making bodies and as served on the Board of Directors for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) between 1988 and 1992, where he helped fashion their language rights program.

Dr. Macías has also received several awards, including Postdoctoral fellowships from the UCLA Institute for American Cultures, the National Research Council, and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College, NY). He was an affiliated Scholar of the Tomás Rivera Policy Center from 1986 until 1995, where he carried out work on language and literacy policies, as well as bilingual and Chicano teacher supply and demand, preparation and staff development. In 1994, he was honored by the National Association for Bilingual Education as a Pioneer in the field, and again in 1995 for contributions to the organization. In 1996, he was appointed by the President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, to the Advisory Board for the National Institute for Literacy.