Haetham Abdul- Razaq

A transformative educator with diverse background and two doctorate degrees in education. Extensive experience in teaching, service, advisory, and leadership positions. Willingness to collaborate with stakeholders and go the extra mile for students and community members to achieve students' learning outcomes and institutional goals. Resilient in adapting to positive change and mitigating challenges to provide a harmonious work environment and establish an inclusive community of learners.

• Alamo District' DREAMERS advisory and college
  initiatives members.
• Sociology Field of Study (Alamo Colleges
  Representative), Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board.
• Social Responsibility Coordinator for Northwest
  Vista College.
• Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Committee,
  Northwest Vista College.
• Arabic language advisor at Northwest Vista College.
• Mentor of students at Northwest Vista College.
• Advisor for student-led Equitable
  Academic Student Engagement EASE club,
• Co-founder and Chief Relation Officer - Arab American Community Network AACN
• President of United for Human Rights Alamo Chapter

• Homeland security administration, San Antonio
  College, Aug 2017
• Online Certification, Northwest Vista College, July
  2020
• Quality Matter APPQMR, October 2020
• Master Teacher, College, October 2022

• Managing students' learning
• Aligning course design elements
• Assessing students' learning outcomes
• Designing curriculum based on students' interests and learning styles
• Assisting professors and college administrators with continuous development, review, planning and outcomes evaluation to measure learning, assessment, engagement, enrollment, and diversity program performance
• Contributing to the institutional strategic planning and accreditation
• Performing research to serve as basis for academic learning and publication
• Attending and assessing students' needs to improve learning experiences
• Preparing students to engage the professional field by enhancing marketable skills and experiential learning
• Revising course objectives, course materials, instructional and assessment strategies
• Mentoring students and communicating internship and employment opportunities.
• Evaluating and supervising student activities and performance levels to provide reports on academic progress
• Contributing to campus activities to promote a positive college image.
• Coordinating with community partners based on action-based research to connect students to further opportunities

• Master Teacher (Faculty development)
• Introduction to Sociology (SOC 1301)
• Social Problems (SOC 1306)
• Minority Studies (SOC 2319)
• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Pluralistic Society (BBL 3403)
• Curricular and Instructional Considerations for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms (BBL 5083)
  
  

• Abdul-Razaq, H. T. (2022). A New Hope or New Burden? Community College Students and Online Learning during COVID-19 (Doctoral dissertation, Aspen University).
• Machado-Casas, M., Talati, K., Abdul-Razaq, H., Fonseca, M., & Peña, C. (2017). Pedagogies of Puppetry: Marginalization, hegemony and colonized treatment of Immigrant and Refugee Families. Ehquidad, (7), 11-42.
• Machado-Casas, M., Cabello, S. A., Talati-Espinza, K., & Abdul-Razaq, H. (2017). Working with immigrant and refugee families: broadening cross-cultural understanding with immigrant/refugee families. Foro de Educación.
• Abdul-Razaq, H. T. (2017). Refugee families' engagement with the public school system: The integration journey of the Iraqi refugees (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at San Antonio).

• Abdul-Razaq, H. T "K-12 and Literacy" (Afghan Refugee Summit). Food Bank, San Antonio, TX. (February 21, 2023).
• Abdul-Razaq, H. T. (2022). A New Hope or New Burden? Community College Students and the Forced Transition to Online Learning During Covid-19”, Region 20, San Antonio, TX (November 11, 2022)
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “Integrating Refugee Families into School and Society”, San Diego Dual Language Conference (virtual), San Diego, CA. (January 30, 2021).
• Abdul-Razaq, H. (TCCTA Faculty Leaders Conference), Austin, TX (9-10 October 2020).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “Alamo Promise and Inspiring High School Students”, Holmes High School, San Antonio, TX. (December 17, 2019).
• Lewis, N. & Abdul-Razaq, H., “Diversity and Holidays” (presentation for Northwest Vista College Academic Advisors), Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX. (December 6, 2019).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “Inspiring English Second Language Learners” (talk at the ESL Department, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX. (November 7, 2019).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “We Thrive by Giving: SES & Academic Achievement” (TED Talk presentation, faculty development day), Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX. (October 25, 2019).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., Rojas, V. & Pepping, M. “The Unwanted, the Fearful, and the Unprotected: Understanding how DACA, Undocumented, and Refugee Students Cope with Fear during the Current Social and Political Climate”, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Washington D.C, (May 2019)
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “Going beyond Equality and Representation”, Alamo College District Symposium, (April 5, 2019).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., Evans, M., Scott, S., “Immigration Status and Students' Engagement”, Northwest Vista College, (April 1, 2019).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., Tovar, M., Garden, ML, Prasad. R., & Lewis, N., “Equitable Diversity from ‘Buzzword' to Data Informed Best Practices”, Faculty Development Day, Northwest Vista College, (October 26, 2018)
• Abdul-Razaq, H., & Albadawi, E. T., “Syrian Refugees in Public Schools: Nurturing the Culture of Inclusion,” TexLER, the University of Texas at San Antonio, (September 2018).
• Abdul-Razaq, H. & Rojas, V. “The Torn Web of Trust: The Hurdle of Refugees' Integration”, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Prague, Czech Republic, (May 2018).
• Galal, A., Rojas, V. & Abdul-Razaq, H. “The contradictions and trade-offs of being a refugee in the United States: A view from newly arrived Iraqi women” NCA, Dallas, TX. (November 2017).
• Abdul-Razaq, H., “Engaging Refugee Families” SABEC, the University of Texas at San Antonio, TX. (February 2017).
• Abdul-Razaq, H. & Rojas, V. “Studying the Live of Refugees in the United States: Do Conventional Theories and Methods Work?” Faculty-student research colloquium 2016 series, Department of Communication, graduate program UTSA, (October 2016).
• Rojas, V. & Abdul-Razaq, H. “The Unwanted Refugees: The Political Rhetoric in the Media Coverage of Syrian Refugees Resettling in the U.S.”, Global Studies Association Conference 2016, Crossing Borders: People, Capital, Culture, University of Texas, Austin, (June 2016).
• Abdul-Razaq, H. & Rojas, V. “Refugees' Networking and Well-being: The Torn Web of Trust”, Global Studies Association Conference 2016, Crossing Borders: People, Capital, Culture, University of Texas, Austin, (June 2016).

I view teaching as a dynamic process involving everyone in the classroom, and this process will nourish fertile ground to foster academic skills for both instructors and students. I highly appreciate teaching and firmly believe that higher education aims to enhance critical thinking skills for all students and introduce them to the realm of educated choices when pursuing future careers or demonstrating knowledge about any topic under inquiry. I believe that education is one of the essential pathways to reaching self-fulfillment and a method of personality transformation. Education becomes meaningful through understanding students' learning styles, interactive teaching techniques, and alignment of the course design with students' learning outcomes. 

I subscribe to the transformative leadership model that provides opportunities for growth and collaboration. At the core of leadership, I value diversity because it brings myriads of talents and positive ideas, especially when all of our students and learners' community members are included in the holistic process of learning and decision-making process. It is imperative to understand and analyze variables contributing to learners' intellectual abilities and identities to adapt culturally responsive pedagogies and equitable policies conducive to achieving institutional and personal goals.

• Who's Who in American Universities, April 2017
• Internal Research Award (INTRA), September 01, 2016 – August 31, 2017: “Iraqi Refugees and Their Integration to the Texas School System”. $5,000 (research grant)
• Sigma Alpha Lambda new member award, 2012. $ 300