Description
Book SynopsisThis collection reveals how much institutional change has occurred in the social organization of postsecondary education, and how much more change is required to achieve equitable access and inclusion.
Table of ContentsForeword / Neil Guppy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Today’s Post-Secondary Students -- Adding Faces to Numbers / Lesley Andres
1 Equity in Access and Outcomes: Succeeding along the Science Pipeline / Maria Adamuti-Trache
2 It’s No Five O’Clock World: The Lived Experience of Re/entering Mothers in Nursing Education / Sharon Liversidge
3 A Tunnel of Hope: The Experiences of Student Mothers Attending a Community-College-Based Developmental Studies Program / Donna McGee Thompson
4 Visitors in the Classroom: The Academic Experiences of Students Who Are Hard of Hearing / Ruth Warick
5 Disciplinary Affiliation and the Experience of Community among Undergraduate Students / Colleen Hawkey
6 Co-op Education: Access to Benefits or Benefits to Access? / Garnet Grosjean
7 The Four Rs Revisited: Some Reflections on First Nations and Higher Education / Michael Marker
8 Welcome to Canada? The Experiences of International Graduate Students at University / Regina Lyakhovetska
9 The Transition from High School to Post-High-School Life: Views of the Class of ’88 / Gabriel Pillay
Conclusion: From Research to Action / Finola Finlay
Contributors
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