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In a year-long qualitative study, the author explored whether college-study-skills courses taken by a group of Black students could help them academically and socially integrate in a predominantly White private university. Using in-depth, audiotaped interviews, the author analyzed the data by applying Vincent Tinto''s theory of student departure. Tinto''s theory illustrated three stages: separation, transition, and incorporation. This book is not only about Black students'' initial academic struggles and study-skills courses that could help them survive the rigors of the academy, but also about their triumphs and successes to survive socially in an academic institution where they might find themselves feeling as ''Guests in an Ivory Tower.''

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Chapter 1 Foreword by Mary L. Rucker, Ph.D. Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Methodology Chapter 6 Between Two Worlds: Making the Transition Chapter 7 Study Skills for College Courses: Are they Assisting in the Transition? Chapter 8 Conclusion, Recommendations, and Implications for Future Research Chapter 9 Appendices Chapter 10 References Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author

Guests at an Ivory Tower The Challenges Black

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      Publisher University Press of America
      Published 11 September 2005
      ISBN-13 9780761831839
      978-0761831839
      ISBN-10 0761831835

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a year-long qualitative study, the author explored whether college-study-skills courses taken by a group of Black students could help them academically and socially integrate in a predominantly White private university. Using in-depth, audiotaped interviews, the author analyzed the data by applying Vincent Tinto''s theory of student departure. Tinto''s theory illustrated three stages: separation, transition, and incorporation. This book is not only about Black students'' initial academic struggles and study-skills courses that could help them survive the rigors of the academy, but also about their triumphs and successes to survive socially in an academic institution where they might find themselves feeling as ''Guests in an Ivory Tower.''

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Foreword by Mary L. Rucker, Ph.D. Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Methodology Chapter 6 Between Two Worlds: Making the Transition Chapter 7 Study Skills for College Courses: Are they Assisting in the Transition? Chapter 8 Conclusion, Recommendations, and Implications for Future Research Chapter 9 Appendices Chapter 10 References Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author

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