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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strayhorn, Terrell L.

Terrell, Melvin C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education (Higher).

African Americans.

African American college students--Social conditions.

African American college students.

African American college students--Attitudes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity. Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for reducing isolation and race-related stress, and as a source of meaning making; students' college selection and decision process and the expectations it fosters; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-00-344778-3

1-000-97492-8

1-003-44778-3

1-57922-565-9

9781003447788

OCLC:

781635685