The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students : New Insights for Policy, Practice, and Research /

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Imprint:Sterling, Va. : Stylus, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147694
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Other authors / contributors:Strayhorn, Terrell L., editor.
Terrell, Melvin C., editor.
ISBN:9781579225650
1579225659
9781579222451
1579222455
9781579222468
1579222463
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the.
Other form:Print version: Evolving challenges of Black college students. Sterling, Va. : Stylus, ©2010 9781579222451