This review examines the impact of Asian Pacific American (APA) students' characteristics and experiences on their academic achievement. The article begins by describing the demographics and diversity of this group, and it explores the challenges posed by APA community college students' background characteristics and influences, the model minority stereotype, and identity development. The limited research that focuses on APA students at community colleges is summaried, as well as broader research on APA students in general. The article concludes with implications for practice and recommendations for future research.
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Previous literature suggests that international students experience more serious alienation than do American students due to difficulty in adjusting to new campus life in the United States. The purpose of the current study is to find out the applicability of the social correlates of alienation, as evidenced in previous studies, to the college under study and to find out the extent to which the findings may deviate from studies done in larger educational institutions. I proposed a variation in the level of alienation experienced by International and American students, and that relationships exist between independent variables - geographic home region, duration of stay in the U.S. and College, and frequency of social contact with other students and dependent variable - alienation. Survey ...
... time, within the context of a small, minority-serving institution whose international students p...
CHICAGO - Seeking support from minority voters, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry pledged Tuesday to expand educational opportunity and see that 1 million more students graduate from college during his first five years in office. Kerry's education plan has a particular emphasis on supporting minority enrollment in college through scholarships, mentoring and tutoring programs and other incentives. He told the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that although college graduates will earn $900,000 more over their careers, less than a third of all Americans and less than a fifth of black Americans have a four-year degree.
PASADENA - A report released this week revealed the challenges San Gabriel Valley school districts face educating minority students and those who live in poverty. The Education Trust-West, a group that advocates for minorities and the poor, measured the achievement gap between students of color and those from impoverished homes, their academic improvement, as well as college readiness for minority and poor students.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy has been awarded $3.4 million to establish its Minority Center of Excellence. The center will help the college recruit and retain minority students and faculty.
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