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Table of Contents:

• Rethinking postsecondary institutions for low-income students success: The power of post-structural theory / Adrianna Kezar
• Lessons learned from Indiana's twenty-first century scholars program: Toward a comprehensive approach to improving college preparation and access for low-income students / Edward P. St. John
• Chances and choices of low-income students in Canada and England: A post-structuralist discussion of early intervention / Tony Changers and Fiona Deller
• Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students / Laura Perna, Valerie Lundy-Wagner, April Yee, Leykia Brill, and Teran Tadal
• Academics, campus administration, and social interaction: Examining campus structures using post-structural theory / Marybeth Walpole
• Strangers in a strange land: Low-income students and the transition to college / Julia Colyar
• Welfare students in community colleges: Policy and policy implementation as barriers to educational attainment / John S. Levin, Virginia Montero-Hernandex, Christine Cerven, and Genevieve Shaker
• Demography is not destiny: What colleges and universities can do to improve persistence among low-income students / Jennifer Engle and Mary G. Lynch
• Minority serving institutions
• What can we learn? / Alisa Cunningham and Lacey Leegwater
• Hidden curriculum: The difficulty of infusing financial education / Adrianna Kezar and Hannah Yang
• Improving transfer access for low-income community college students / Alicia Dowd
• Post-Baccalaureate preparation and access for low-income students and the myth of a level playing field / Alex Jun and Kristin Paredes-Collins
• Re-orienting our understanding of colleges in relation to low-income students / Adrianna Kezar.

Contributors:

Kezar, Adrianna J.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Postsecondary education — United States

Educational equalization — United States

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher) — United States

Low-income college students — United States

Postsecondary education

Educational equalization

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher)

People with social disabilities

Low-income college students

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC1039.5 .R44 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780415803212 (hc, alk. paper)
9780415803229 (hc, alk. paper)
9780203851258 (hc, alk. paper)
0415803217 (alk. paper)
0415803225 (alk. paper)
0203851250 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009047575

OCLC Numbers:

671648287
406172815 [Invalid]

Other Control Numbers:

EBC565440 (source: MiAaPQ)