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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975433103321

Titolo

Student affairs : experiencing higher education / / edited by Lesley Andres and Finola Finlay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2004

ISBN

0-7748-5131-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndresLesley

FinlayFinola <1950->

Disciplina

378.1/98/09711

Soggetti

College students - British Columbia

Education, Higher - British Columbia

Academic achievement - British Columbia

College environment - British Columbia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Student Affairs; Introduction: Today's Post- Secondary Students - Adding Faces to Numbers; 1 Equity in Access and Outcomes: Succeeding along the Science Pipeline; 2 It's No Five O'Clock World: The Lived Experience of Re/entering Mothers in Nursing Education; 3 A Tunnel of Hope: The Experiences of Student- Mothers Attending a Community- College- Based Developmental Studies Program; 4 Visitors in the Classroom: The Academic Experiences of Students Who Are Hard of Hearing; 5 Disciplinary Affiliation and the Experience of Community among Undergraduate Students

6 Co-op Education: Access to Benefits or Benefits to Access?7 The Four Rs Revisited: Some Reflections on First Nations and Higher Education; 8 Welcome to Canada? The Experiences of International Graduate Students at University; 9 The Transition from High School to Post- High- School Life: Views of the Class of ' 88; Conclusion: From Research to Action; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection reveals how much institutional change has occurred in the social organization of postsecondary education, and how much more change is required to achieve equitable access and inclusion.