The evolving challenges of black college students : new insights for policy, practice, and research / / edited by Terrell L. Strayhorn and Melvin C. Terrell ; foreword by Lemuel W. Watson.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 226 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The state of empirical research on African American collegians / Terrell L. Strayhorn
- Knowing God, knowing self: African American college students and spirituality / Dafina Lazarus Stewart
- Choosing college as a life or death decision: first-generation African American women's reflections on college choice / Rachele Winkle-Wagner
- Buoyant believers: resilience, self-efficacy, and academic success of low-income African American collegians / Terrell L. Strayhorn
- Focusing on achievement: African American student persistence in the academy / Fred Bonner II
- Triple threat: challenges and supports of black gay men at predominantly white campuses / Terrell L. Strayhorn, Amanda M. Blakewood, and James M. DeVita
- Challenges and supports of student-to-student interactions: insights on African American collegians / Belinda B. McFeeters
- "A home away from home": black cultural centers as supportive environments for African American collegians at white institutions / Terrell L. Strayhorn ... [et al.]
- The uniqueness of an HBCU environment: how a supportive campus climate promotes student success / Robert T. Palmer and Estelle Young
- College-bound sons: exploring parental influences on the pre-entry attributes of black males / Darryl B. Holloman and Terrell L. Strayhorn
- Mentoring and African American undergraduates' perceptions of academic success / Tonya N. Saddler
- New directions for future research on African American collegians / Terrell L. Strayhorn.