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Taming the River : Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Taming the River : |b Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities / |c Camille Z. Charles [and others] ; with assistance from Gniesha Dinwiddie, Brooke Cunningham. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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, in. | ||
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