Factors Influencing the Choice of a Black College by Black High School Students
Author: Melanie Reeves Williams
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 186
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Author: Melanie Reeves Williams
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gail E. Thomas
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kassie Freeman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0791484505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcknowledging the disparity between the number of African American high school students who aspire toward higher education and the number who actually attend, this book uncovers factors that influence African American students' decisions regarding college. Kassie Freeman brings new insights to the current body of research on African Americans and higher education by examining the impact that family, school, community, and home have in the decision-making process. She explores specific factors that contribute to a student's predisposition toward higher education, including gender, economics, and high school curriculum, and seeks to bridge the gap in understanding why aspiration does not immediately translate into participation. Educators and policy makers interested in increasing African American students' participation in higher education will benefit from the exploration of this paradox.
Author: Terrell L. Strayhorn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1000980146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting new empirical evidence and employing fresh theoretical perspectives, this book sheds new light on the challenges that Black Students face from the time they apply to college through their lives on campus.The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity.Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for reducing isolation and race-related stress, and as a source of meaning making; students’ college selection and decision process and the expectations it fosters; first-generation Black women’s motivations for attending college; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the role of cultural centers; as well as identity development; and mentoring. The book includes a new research study of African American male undergraduates who identify as gay or bisexual; discusses the impact of student-to-student interactions in intellectual development and leadership building; describes the successful strategies used by historically Black institutions with at-risk men; considers the role of parents in Black male students’ lives, and the applicability of the “millennial” label to the new cohort of African American students.The book offers new insights and concrete recommendations for policies and practices to provide the social and academic support for African American students to persist and fully benefit from their collegiate experience. It will be of value to student affairs personnel and faculty; constitutes a textbook for courses on student populations and their development; and provides a springboard for future research.
Author: Kinna F. Perry
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Webster Draper
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royce E. Joyner
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Darryl Earl Jones
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joe R. Feagin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1134718349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.
Author: Larry Clark Acker
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 246
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