Transforming the first-year of college for students of color
By: Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, Dawn Person, editors.
Contributors: Rendón, Laura I.; García, Mildred.; Person, Dawn.; National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina)
Series: The first-year experience monograph series -- no. 38
Publisher: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: College freshmen -- United States.; Minority college students -- United States.; College student development programs -- United States.
Description: vi, 192 p. : 28 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I: Identifying students of color and their unique needs; title: A call for transformation / Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, & Dawn Person; title: Pre-collegiate experiences, values, and goals of first-year students of color / Kevin Kinser & Corlisse D. Thomas; title: Moving to a new culture: the upside and downside of the transition to college / Romero E. Jalomo, Jr. & Laura I. Rendón; title: II: Supporting students of color in the classroom and beyond; title: Inclusion, reflection, and the politics of knowledge: on working toward the realization of inclusive classroom environments / Nana Osei-Kofi, Sandra L. Richards, and Daryl G. Smith; title: Fostering positive intergroup relations in the first year of college / Jesús Treviño and Kris Ewing; title: Academic and social integration: a key to first-year success for students of color / James A. Anderson; title: III: Working with specific populations; title: Transforming the first-year of experience of African Americans / Wynetta Y. Lee; title: Transforming the post-secondary experiences of Latinos / Kenneth P. Gonzalez, Louis Olivas, & Mistalene Calleroz; title: Transforming the first-year experience for Asian/Pacific Americans / Xiaoyun Yang & Xiaomei Feng; title: Transforming the first-year experience for American Indians/Alaska natives / Charles R. Colbert, Joseph J. Saggio, & Dawn Tato; title: Transforming the first-year experience for multiracial/bicultural students / Raechele L. Pope, Timothy R. Ecklund, Teresa A. Miklitsch, & Radhika Suresh; title: IV: Moving toward the future; title: Transforming the first-year experience for students of color: where do we begin? / Laura I. Rendón.