The Source of the River : : The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities / / Garvey Lundy, Mary J. Fischer, Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles.
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 66 tables. 19 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- ONE. The Puzzle of Minority Underachievement
- TWO. Sample and Methodology
- THREE. Family Origins
- Four. Neighborhood Background
- FIVE. Prior Educational Experiences
- SIX. The Social World of High School
- SEVEN. Racial Identity and Attitudes
- EIGHT. Pathways to Preparation
- NINE. Sink or Swim: The First Semester
- TEN. Lessons Learned
- Appendix A. Survey of College Life and Experience: First-Wave Instrument
- Appendix B. Construction of Social Scales
- References
- Index