Taming the river : negotiating the academic, financial, and social currents in selective colleges and universities / Camille Z. Charles ... [et al.] ; with assistance from Gniesha Dinwiddie, Brooke Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles, Camille Z., author.

Contributor:

Charles, Camille Zubrinsky, 1965-

Dinwiddie, Gniesha.

Cunningham, Brooke.

Series:

The William G. Bowen Series ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--United States--Social conditions.

College students.

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.

Minorities.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the first two years of college. Focusing on racial differences in academic performance, the book identifies the causes of students' divergent grades and levels of personal satisfaction with their institutions. Using survey data collected from twenty-eight selective colleges and universities, Taming the River considers all facets of student life, including who students date, what fields they major in, which sports they play, and how they perceive their own social and economic backgrounds. The book explores how black and Latino students experience pressures stemming from campus racial climate and "stereotype threat"--when students underperform because of anxieties tied to existing negative stereotypes. Describing the relationship between grade performance and stereotype threat, the book shows how this link is reinforced by institutional practices of affirmative action. The authors also indicate that when certain variables are controlled, minority students earn the same grades, express the same college satisfaction, and remain in school at the same rates as white students. A powerful look at how educational policies unfold in America's universities, Taming the River sheds light on the social and racial factors influencing student success.

Contents:

Entering the current

Staying afloat academically

Staying afloat socially

Staying afloat financially

Battling social undercurrents

The hidden rocks of segregation

The shoals of stereotypes

The wake from affirmative action

College at midstream.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786612158285

9781282158283

1282158287

9781400830053

1400830052

OCLC:

438799843