The Networks and Cultural Assets Project (NCA) conducts research to document students’ cultural wealth and social networks. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship, we inform and support institutions and educators in adopting asset-based and relational frameworks in policy and practice.
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Publication: The Development and Validation of the Academic Cultural Wealth Scale: Recognizing Student Strengths Through Critical Quantitative Methods
Nidia Bañuelos, Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, & Ross J. Benbow https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737261421889 Abstract This article details the development and validation of the Academic Cultural Wealth Scale (ACW)—a survey instrument that measures the Community Cultural Wealth…
NCA at AERA 2026: Presenting New Research on Social Networks and Asset-Based Approaches
The Networks and Cultural Assets (NCA) project is excited to share that our team will be presenting two papers at the upcoming American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.…
Publication: Investigating the relationship between community cultural wealth and cultural capital in higher education: A quantitative study
We are excited to share a new manuscript that examines how two influential frameworks in higher education research relate to one another: Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, which we refer to…
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