LEADER 04069nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910461501103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-57922-565-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161097 035 $a(EBL)911914 035 $a(OCoLC)781635685 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622852 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12292881 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622852 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10647209 035 $a(PQKB)10105942 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC911914 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL911914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10545774 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161097 100 $a20100209d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe evolving challenges of black college students$b[electronic resource] $enew insights for policy, practice, and research /$fedited by Terrell L. Strayhorn and Melvin C. Terrell ; foreword by Lemuel W. Watson 210 $aSterling, Va. $cStylus$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57922-245-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation (Higher) 606 $aAfrican American college students$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican American college students$xAttitudes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEducation (Higher) 615 0$aAfrican American college students$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican American college students$xAttitudes. 676 $a378.1/982996073 701 $aStrayhorn$b Terrell L$0860237 701 $aTerrell$b Melvin C$0860238 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461501103321 996 $aThe evolving challenges of black college students$91919459 997 $aUNINA