{"id":3925,"date":"2021-01-21T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/?page_id=3925"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:34:32","slug":"oscar-cerna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/about\/research-staff\/oscar-cerna\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Cerna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 bio-page nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 2% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 2%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"645\" height=\"525\" alt=\"Elisabeth Barnett\" src=\"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/oscar-cerna.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/oscar-cerna-200x163.jpg 200w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/oscar-cerna-400x326.jpg 400w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/oscar-cerna-600x488.jpg 600w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/oscar-cerna.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 2% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Oscar Cerna<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>MDRC<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Cerna is a research associate at MDRC, where he concentrates on implementation research and program development at community colleges across the country. He has been involved in several large-scale projects focused on student success initiatives, including Achieving the Dream, the University System of Georgia\u2019s African American Male Initiative, the Adult Basic Education study, the Learning Communities Demonstration, and the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration. As part of the Postsecondary Education policy area, Cerna serves as the project director for the Latino Academic Transfer and Institutional Degree Opportunities (LATIDO) project, which examines institutional initiatives that improve college outcomes for Latino college students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California. Before joining MDRC, Cerna conducted research and evaluation for WestEd and for Bay Area Community Resources. A former community college graduate, Cerna transferred to the University of California-Irvine as an undergraduate and continued on to graduate school at UCLA\u2019s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdrc.org\/about\/oscar-cerna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read MDRC bio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Cerna is a research associate at MDRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oscar Cerna - Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oscar Cerna is a research associate at MDRC.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oscar Cerna - 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