Aurely Garcia Tulloch is a research analyst at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, where her work connects students’ lived experiences to advancing equitable dual enrollment and transfer pathways. Her research centers students from low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented backgrounds, with a focus on how policy and practice shape access, transition, and success across higher education systems.
At CCRC, Garcia Tulloch leads student-centered engagement efforts that elevate student voice in research and reform. She leads a national student advisory panel and founded Dual Enrollment Squad, a social media community that supports peer connection and resource sharing in dual enrollment programs nationwide. She has co-authored the DEEP Insights report and expanded its findings in subsequent peer-reviewed publications, contributing to the national reform framework dual enrollment equity pathways. Following this work, she authored “What Do Dual Enrollment Students Want,” a widely cited practitioner-facing piece featured in The Hechinger Report, Psychology Today, and Community College Daily, later adapted into a peer-reviewed article in New Directions for Community Colleges.
Her work has been recognized by national higher education organizations and outlets, including the Journal of Higher Education. She has been featured as podcast of the month on Innovative Educators’ Friday 5 Live and authored multiple op-eds for Inside Higher Ed on supporting former dual enrollment students as they transition through higher education as transfer students. She presents nationally on these topics, bridging her research expertise with her lived experience as a former dual enrollment and transfer student.
Garcia Tulloch holds an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University; a B.S. from Florida Gulf Coast University; and an A.A. from State College of Florida, earned through dual enrollment.