Norberto Michel Hernández Valdés-Portela

<p class="MsoNormal">Norberto Michel Hernández Valdés-Portela is an instructor in Economics at Hostos Community College. His research interests are in development economics and the political economy of higher education, specifically social mobility and community college. Most of his work is focused on the political economy of higher education with an emphasis on critical university studies, specifically on community college reform, social mobility analysis, and the access of Hispanic Americans and Hispanic immigrants to higher education. He has also studied the factors that impede country-focused development, concentrating on comparative studies in economic growth and economic thought, particularly in Cuba. He is a member of several professional associations, such as the Latin America Studies Association (LASA), the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), and the International Political Science Association (IPSA).