University Press of America
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978-0-7618-6478-3 • Hardback • May 2015 • $80.00 • (£62.00)
978-0-7618-6479-0 • eBook • May 2015 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
Terence Hicks is the former dean of the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University, Texas and the recipient of the 2013 Robert B. Howsam Award from the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Chance W. Lewis is the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Urban Education Collaborative.
Foreword by Robert T. Palmer
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Chapter One—Navigating the New: Examining the Transition Experiences of First-Semester College Students
Molly Reynolds, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Deanna Sellnow, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Chapter Two—The High School to College Transition: College-Going Culture, Student-Counselor Interactions, and the College Preparation Process
Chenoa S. Woods, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Chapter Three—High School to College Transition: “I’ve Always Been College-Bound”: A Case Study of a Successful First-Generation, Latina College Student
Desireé Vega, Ph.D., Texas State University
Chapter Four—Academic and Social Adjustment of Students Transitioning from an Early College High School Program to an Institution of Higher Education
Catie McCorry-Andalis, Ed.D., The University of Texas at El Paso
Chapter Five—Assessing the Preparedness of Former Nebraska 4-H Participants to Transition and Adapt to College
Jill S. Walahoski, Ph.D., University of Nebraska—Lincoln
Chapter Six—High School to College Transition: An Examination of the Influence of Social and Academic Integration on Multiracial College Student Persistence
Ashley D. Spicer-Runnels, Ed.D., Texas State University
Index
Editors
Contributors
The transition from high school to college is a critical time in students’ academic careers that too often determines their continuation in college. In response, Terence Hicks and Chance W. Lewis have assembled an impressive cadre of leading scholars who provide compelling insight into the student transition experience, explicate the dire need for faculty-student and counselor-student interactions, and overview new strategies and programs that serve as promising markers for innovation. This volume is a must read for researchers and scholars who desire to improve outcomes for first-year collegians.
— J. Luke Wood, PhD, associate professor, San Diego State University, and co-founder and editor emeritus of the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME)
Hicks and Lewis offer a body of research that further refines the focus for public schools, colleges, and universities, in providing a more effective transition from high school to college, resulting in higher retention and graduation rates from college.
— Robert P. Taylor, EdD, superintendent of Bladen County Schools, North Carolina