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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
©2009.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7tbb2 |
| 總結: | 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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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| 參考書目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400830053 1400830052 0691139644 9780691139647 |