TY  - GEN
T1  - Taming the river : negotiating the academic, financial, and social currents in selective colleges and universities
A2  - Charles, Camille Zubrinsky, 1965-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn438799843
AB  - 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.
OP  - 301
CN  - LC208.8 .T36 2009eb
SN  - 9781400830053
SN  - 1400830052
SN  - 0691139644
SN  - 9780691139647
KW  - College students : United States : Social conditions.
KW  - Minorities : Education (Higher) : United States.
KW  - Academic achievement : United States.
KW  - Étudiants : États-Unis : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Minorités : Enseignement supérieur : États-Unis.
KW  - EDUCATION : Higher.
KW  - EDUCATION : Philosophy & Social Aspects.
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - College students : Social conditions
KW  - Minorities : Education (Higher)
KW  - United States
ER  -