Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus
Autor Elsa Nunezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781475802436
ISBN-10: 1475802439
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1475802439
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Foreword
"When Need Meets Opportunity"
Jeffrey Bartlett, College Specialist, Hartford Public High School
Preface
Elsa M. Núñez, President; Eastern Connecticut State University
Introduction
Part One: Beginnings
Introduction: The American Dream Chapter 1. A Personal Journey: El Fanguito and the Flight to NewarkChapter 2: The Dream of College Comes TruePart Two: The Need for Innovative Educational Initiatives
Chapter 3. Tobacco Valley and the Thread City Blues: The Story of Latinos in Connecticut Chapter 4. Closing the Achievement Gap: Sharing the American DreamChapter 5. Off the Streets and into Class: The Birth of the Dual College Enrollment ProgramPart Three: Student Stories
Chapter 6. Federica Bucca '13Chapter 7. Ismael GraciaChapter 8. Whitley Mingo '13Chapter 9. Todd AvilesChapter 10: Maria Burgos-Jiménez '12Chapter 11. Eshwar Gulcharran Part Four: A Model for Reform
Chapter 12: How Inner-City Students Can Succeed on Your Campus
"When Need Meets Opportunity"
Jeffrey Bartlett, College Specialist, Hartford Public High School
Preface
Elsa M. Núñez, President; Eastern Connecticut State University
Introduction
Part One: Beginnings
Introduction: The American Dream Chapter 1. A Personal Journey: El Fanguito and the Flight to NewarkChapter 2: The Dream of College Comes TruePart Two: The Need for Innovative Educational Initiatives
Chapter 3. Tobacco Valley and the Thread City Blues: The Story of Latinos in Connecticut Chapter 4. Closing the Achievement Gap: Sharing the American DreamChapter 5. Off the Streets and into Class: The Birth of the Dual College Enrollment ProgramPart Three: Student Stories
Chapter 6. Federica Bucca '13Chapter 7. Ismael GraciaChapter 8. Whitley Mingo '13Chapter 9. Todd AvilesChapter 10: Maria Burgos-Jiménez '12Chapter 11. Eshwar Gulcharran Part Four: A Model for Reform
Chapter 12: How Inner-City Students Can Succeed on Your Campus
Recenzii
Hanging Out and Hanging On is a compelling and engaging book. By combining socioeconomic background and personal narrative, the author humanizes the statistics and contextualizes the personal struggles of the students whose lives she documents. Nunez adds an additional dimension to this work by describing some of her own struggles and explaining to the reader how she has used the insights from her life to construct an effective program to support student success. Listening to the students' stories allows the reader to hear the power of a liberal education working firsthand in these students' lives. Their minds open to growth and insight as they describe their journey through the university. This book should be read by anyone who is concerned about the success and uplift of all students who struggle with poverty and stress in their own families and manage to succeed as college students in spite of the challenges.
Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus is that rare book that puts facts and figures in the context of the human condition. It does more than just identify the challenge we have in promoting access and opportunity to America's students as "one nation under God." It brings life to that challenge and explicitly outlines what works and why it works. Elsa Núñez and the community at Eastern Connecticut State University have demonstrated what can be done to truly impact the opportunity gap. As someone who made it from the projects to the campus myself, I found this book to be inspirational and authentic.
Dr. Elsa Nunez's Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus shines a beacon of hope on inner-city students, illuminating a path by which they can travel the road to college and away from the cycles of poverty, crime, and societal, parental, and their personal expectations of low achievement. Rooted in Dr. Nunez's own early educational challenges as a Puerto Rican immigrant and inspired by the highly successful Dual College Enrollment Program instituted at Eastern Connecticut State University, the school over which she presides, "Hanging Out and Hanging On" shows educators how to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. The book also gives voice to the participants of the Dual College Enrollment program: Latino and African-American students from the 'hood whose stories of success and how they achieved it illustrate the program's basic tenets of inspiration, opportunity, and support.
Elsa Núñez is one of the most forward-looking, ambitious university presidents in America. She has written a path-finding book that is a roadmap for reaching and educating students who are often overlooked in the system. Her writing style is engaging, authentic, and honest. Everyone from college administrators to high school teachers to parents should read Núñez's groundbreaking book.
Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus is that rare book that puts facts and figures in the context of the human condition. It does more than just identify the challenge we have in promoting access and opportunity to America's students as "one nation under God." It brings life to that challenge and explicitly outlines what works and why it works. Elsa Núñez and the community at Eastern Connecticut State University have demonstrated what can be done to truly impact the opportunity gap. As someone who made it from the projects to the campus myself, I found this book to be inspirational and authentic.
Dr. Elsa Nunez's Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus shines a beacon of hope on inner-city students, illuminating a path by which they can travel the road to college and away from the cycles of poverty, crime, and societal, parental, and their personal expectations of low achievement. Rooted in Dr. Nunez's own early educational challenges as a Puerto Rican immigrant and inspired by the highly successful Dual College Enrollment Program instituted at Eastern Connecticut State University, the school over which she presides, "Hanging Out and Hanging On" shows educators how to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. The book also gives voice to the participants of the Dual College Enrollment program: Latino and African-American students from the 'hood whose stories of success and how they achieved it illustrate the program's basic tenets of inspiration, opportunity, and support.
Elsa Núñez is one of the most forward-looking, ambitious university presidents in America. She has written a path-finding book that is a roadmap for reaching and educating students who are often overlooked in the system. Her writing style is engaging, authentic, and honest. Everyone from college administrators to high school teachers to parents should read Núñez's groundbreaking book.