Expanding postsecondary opportunity for underrepresented students
Subtitle: theory and practice of academic capital formation
By: volume editors, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Phillip J. Bowman, Edward P. St. John
Series: Readings on equal education -- v. 26; Readings on equal education -- v. 26.
Publisher: AMS
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780404102265
Subjects: Higher education and state; Higher Education; Educational equalization; Minorities in higher education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editors' introduction / Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Phillip J. Bowman, and Edward P. St. John; title: Theory building; title: Academic capital formation: an emergent theory / Edward P. St. John; title: Promoting academic capital formation among urban youth: citywide approaches / Laura W. Perna and Margaret A. Hadinger; title: His experience: toward a phenomenological understanding of academic capital formation among Black and Latino male students / Shaun R. Harper, Collin D. Williams Jr., David Pérez II, and Demetri L. Morgan; title: Mentoring Latinas/os in higher education: intentional cultivation of talent / Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner; title: Academic capital formation among Hmong students: an exploratory study of the role of ethnic identity in college transitions / Malisa Lee and Edward P. St. John; title: Prior socialization in academic capital formation: historically Black college and university origins and their impact on doctoral student success / Pamela P. Felder; title: Models of successful practice; title: College for every student: a model for postsecondary encouragement in rural schools / Rick Dalton, Victoria J. Milazzo-Bigelow, and Edward P. St. John; title: The role of student long-term goals on college persistence of low-income students: evidence from the Washington State Achievers Program / Tatiana Melguizo; title: Carolina covenant: reducing the retention gap / Edward P. St John, Shirley Ort, and Lynn Williford; title: STEM transfer students in research universities: a qualitative assessment of academic capital formation / Edward P. St. John and Victoria J. Milazzo-Bigelow; title: Conclusions; title: Academic capital formation: can it help untangle confusion about social stratification in the study of college students? / Rachelle Winkle-Wagner.