Cherlyn A. Johnson

Guests at an Ivory Tower

The Challenges Black Students Experience While Attending a Predominantly White University

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Produktbeschreibung

In a year-long qualitative study, the author explored whether college-study-skills courses taken by a group of Black students could help them academically and socially integrate in a predominantly White private university. Using material from interviews and Vincent Tinto's theory of student departure, this book addresses Black students' initial academic struggles and study-skills courses and their triumphs and successes to survive socially in academic institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 167g
• ISBN-13: 9780761831839
• ISBN-10: 0761831835
• Artikelnr.: 21084812

Autorenporträt

Cherlyn A. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Language and Literature Department at Virginia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword by Mary L. Rucker, Ph.D.
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Methodology
Chapter 6 Between Two Worlds: Making the Transition
Chapter 7 Study Skills for College Courses: Are they Assisting in the
Transition?
Chapter 8 Conclusion, Recommendations, and Implications for Future Research
Chapter 9 Appendices
Chapter 10 References
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 About the Author