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If You Are Trying To Help Students You Should Probably Ask Them How You Can Help Testimonios Of Latina O Hispanic College Students Who Persisted To Graduation
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Book Synopsis "If You Are Trying to Help Students, You Should Probably Ask Them How You Can Help": Testimonios of Latina/O/ Hispanic College Students Who Persisted to Graduation by : Joise Garzon
Download or read book "If You Are Trying to Help Students, You Should Probably Ask Them How You Can Help": Testimonios of Latina/O/ Hispanic College Students Who Persisted to Graduation written by Joise Garzon and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice by : Gina Ann Garcia
Download or read book Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice written by Gina Ann Garcia and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), which are not-for-profit, degree granting postsecondary institutions that enroll at least 25% Latinxs, also grows, with 523 institutions now meeting the enrollment threshold to become HSIs. But as they increase in number, the question remains: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? This edited book, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs, fills an important gap in the literature. It features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining “servingness” in practice at HSIs. Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centers Latinx ways of knowing and being, with the goal of providing transformative experiences that lead to both academic and non-academic outcomes. In this book, practitioners tell their stories of success in defining servingness at HSIs. Specifically, they provide empirical and practical evidence of the results and outcomes of federally funded HSI grants, including those funded by Department of Education Title III and V grants. This edited book is ideal for higher education practitioners and scholars searching for best practices for HSIs in the United States. Administrators at HSIs, including presidents, provosts, deans, and boards of trustees, will find the book useful as they seek out ways to effectively serve Latinx and other minoritized students. Faculty who teach in higher education graduate programs can use the book to highlight practitioner engaged scholarship. Legislators and policy advocates, who fight for funding and support for HSIs at the federal level, can use the book to inform and shape a research-based Latinx educational policy agenda. The book is essential as it provides a framework that simplifies the complex phenomenon known as servingness. As HSIs become more significant in the U.S. higher education landscape, books that provide empirically based, practical examples of servingness are necessary.
Book Synopsis Brown Church by : Robert Chao Romero
Download or read book Brown Church written by Robert Chao Romero and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latina/o culture and identity have long been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo. Robert Chao Romero explores the "Brown Church" and how this movement appeals to the vision for redemption that includes not only heavenly promises but also the transformation of our lives and the world.
Book Synopsis Student Success in College by : George D. Kuh
Download or read book Student Success in College written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.
Book Synopsis The Professor Is In by : Karen Kelsky
Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
Book Synopsis Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges by : Luz Briceno Moreno
Download or read book Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges written by Luz Briceno Moreno and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study was conducted at a Northern California community college with eight Latino/a student's and the utilization of their testimonios to bring awareness to their academic experiences, successes and needs as first-generation college students. A large majority of Latino/a students who do enroll in college begin at community colleges, this stands to be the first point of entry into higher education for current and future Latino/a student's (Santiago & Stettner, 2013). Community colleges graduating mostly vocationally trained Latino/a student's continue to feed into a history of limited educational and societal mobility, which is vastly different from the white students experience (Cohen, 2008). Community colleges have an obligation to address the issues of inequitable services to Latino/a student's that will change the trajectory of their educational experiences. New resources and strategies need to be implemented to increase the rate of Latino/a community college graduates and transfers to four-year universities (Gándara & Contreras, 2009). The problem of access and opportunity for Latino/a students in community colleges is great and needs to be addressed especially as they become the majority on many community college campuses. For some community colleges that are considered Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) through Title V of the United States educational code, serving this Latino/a population with equal opportunities could not be of greater importance (Higher Education Act, 1965). This study demonstrated in its student narratives the various systems of support, such as family and transfer readiness programs, that helped students accomplish their academic and career goals. These students also shared stories racial biases, lack of financial resources, and systemic obstacles that created educational barriers. The utilization of student testimonios is necessary and imperative for institutions to create services they find most useful, and finally to provide the best pedagogical practices to deliver successful academic outcomes.
Book Synopsis Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas by : Rita Portales
Download or read book Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas written by Rita Portales and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As educators and legislators across the country debate how to improve public schools, the most vital factor often disappears from the equation—the relationship between the teacher and the student. According to veteran educators Rita and Marco Portales, this relationship is the central issue in the education of students, especially Latino/a students who often face serious barriers to school success because of the legacy of racism, insufficient English-language skills, and cultural differences with the educational establishment. To break down these barriers and help Latino/a students acquire a quality education, the Portaleses focus attention on the teacher-student relationship and offer a proven method that teachers can use to strengthen the print and oral skills of their students. They begin by analyzing the reasons why schools too often fail to educate Latino/a students, using eloquent comments from young Latinos/as and their parents to confirm how important the teacher-student relationship is to the student's success. Then they show how all educational stakeholders—teachers, administrators, state education agencies, legislators, and parents—can work together to facilitate the teacher-student relationship and improve student education. By demonstrating how teachers can improve students' reading, critical thinking, writing, and oral communication skills across the curriculum, they argue that learning can be made more relevant for students, keeping their interest levels high while preparing them for academically competitive colleges.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-05-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Book Synopsis Waiting For Snow In Havana by : Carlos Eire
Download or read book Waiting For Snow In Havana written by Carlos Eire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Book Synopsis How First-generation Latino Commuter Undergraduates Persist to Degree Completion by : Connie Dominguez
Download or read book How First-generation Latino Commuter Undergraduates Persist to Degree Completion written by Connie Dominguez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years, Latinos have experienced the highest rate of increase in college enrollment among major ethnic groups. However, because they also tend to be first-generation college students, live at home, and work, they are least likely to persist to bachelor degree completion. Using a semi-structured interview, this qualitative descriptive study explored factors that fostered persistence of 20 first-generation, Latino commuter-university, bachelor degree graduates who faced those challenges. Findings revealed that such students encounter obstacles that hinder college persistence almost immediately upon entry. Having no one to explain in advance how college "works," they cannot adequately anticipate the academic demands and responsibilities, nor do they understand how to navigate the administrative system. They are also constantly overwhelmed at having to juggle not only work and schoolwork, but also traditional Latino family obligations required of them by parents who also do not understand what being a college student entails. Other factors, however, helped them overcome these challenges: support from parents, financial aid programs, and on-campus relationships. The most important parental support was permission for the student to use work earnings for college expenses. Financial aid programs were essential to supplement these earnings and whatever modest financial support parents might provide. On-campus relationships were a critical aspect of Latino students' support system. Staff provided essential personal academic advising. Faculty--especially Latino faculty--offered caring personal attention and role models. Equally important were relationships with other Latino students, which provided needed information and cultural affinity. Seeing others "like me" succeed helped these students believe they, too, could persist and graduate. Educators and administrators at commuter universities can positively affect Latino college persistence by increasing students' knowledge about and access to financial aid, offering programs that prepare Latino students and their parents for the multiple demands of being a college student, and establishing structures designed to increase Latino students' social and academic integration. Given current demographic shifts, improving Latino college graduation rates are not only a question of equity and social justice, but may be an important factor in the future overall health of the United States economy" -- Abstract, p. 1-2.
Book Synopsis Mi Voz, Mi Vida by : Andrew C. Garrod
Download or read book Mi Voz, Mi Vida written by Andrew C. Garrod and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds—they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context—Dartmouth College—often very different from their childhood ones.
Author :Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Publisher :University Press of Colorado ISBN 13 :1457181223 Total Pages :694 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (571 download)
Book Synopsis Presumed Incompetent by : Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Download or read book Presumed Incompetent written by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.
Book Synopsis Academic Profiling by : Gilda L. Ochoa
Download or read book Academic Profiling written by Gilda L. Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses today's so-called achievement gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived every day, Ochoa turns to the students, teachers, and parents to learn about the very real disparities--in opportunity, status, treatment, and assumptions--that lead to more than just gaps in achievement.
Download or read book Raza Studies written by Julio Cammarota and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive—indeed revolutionary—program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s vision for critical pedagogy and Chicano activists of the 1960s, the designers of the program believed their program would encourage academic achievement and engagement by Mexican American students. With chapters by leading scholars, this volume explains how the program used “critically compassionate intellectualism” to help students become “transformative intellectuals” who successfully worked to improve their level of academic achievement, as well as create social change in their schools and communities. Despite its popularity and success inverting the achievement gap, in 2010 Arizona state legislators introduced and passed legislation with the intent of banning MAS or any similar curriculum in public schools. Raza Studies is a passionate defense of the program in the face of heated local and national attention. It recounts how one program dared to venture to a world of possibility, hope, and struggle, and offers compelling evidence of success for social justice education programs.
Download or read book La Vida Real written by Tanya Savory and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates are that more than 45 million Latino people live in the United States—and that number continues to grow every day. In La Vida Real: True Stories of Latino Students Today, a few of these people share their inspiring, touching, and sometimes difficult experiences of living in and growing up in, or moving to, the United States. Some of the people you will meet include: • Angela, a gang girl and abuse survivor who refuses to give up and finally discovers what’s most important in life. • Diego, a high-school senior who must pull his family together when his schizophrenic father suddenly disappears. • Yecenia, a determined young woman who goes from growing up in a garage to graduating from UCLA.
Book Synopsis Echandole Ganas: Testimonios of Latina First-Generation College Students by : Iosdelyn Ramirez
Download or read book Echandole Ganas: Testimonios of Latina First-Generation College Students written by Iosdelyn Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-generation Latina college students often endure specific challenges that other students do not. This qualitative study utilizes testimonios of four working-class Latinas in their later years of college as they navigated gendered and cultural expectations at the same university. Chicana Feminist Epistemology was used to interpret the participants' experiences by considering how culture and gender identity play a role in their educational journey. Decolonial tools of research such as testimonios center the voices and lived experiences of those historically at the margins of society to challenge traditional norms of valid knowledge. Additionally, I explored the concept of family achievement guilt to see if it affected any of them. The Latinas shared their experiences as first-generation college students, the development of their ethnic identity, and gendered expectations they faced. All of them felt pressure to fulfill family responsibilities while also balancing their time with school and work. With shared struggles in higher education, they urge universities to reflect their claim of Hispanic Serving Institutions to provide better support and resources to Latinx and first-generation students. The need for higher education to address each of the challenges that may arise from these identities may not be mutually exclusive. Some examples of support include academic workshops, representation in faculty, more communication of resources, and additional financial support for tuition and other college related expenses.
Download or read book Goal written by Georges Vernez and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepared for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund" -- t.p.
