Guests at an Ivory Tower: The Challenges Black Students Experience While Attending a Predominantly White University

by Cherlyn A. Johnson

Overview

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.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761831839
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/09/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	6.54(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Cherlyn A. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Language and Literature Department at Virginia State University.

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