ANN ARBOR—Sylvia Hurtado, University of Michigan assistant professor of higher education, recently received the Early Career Award from the Association of Higher Education (ASHE). The award is designed to recognize a scholar who has contributed a significant body of scholarship or a single extraordinary research achievement to the field.

Among Hurtado’s most recent works are ” Latino Student Transition to College” and ” Faculty Attitudes Toward Regulating Speech on College Campuses: An Analysis of Individual and Institutional Factors.”

Hurtado received a B.A. degree in sociology from Princeton University, an Ed.M. in administration, planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Hurtado joined the faculty in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the U-M in 1992.