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The Identity Transformation Process Of The West Indian College Student, Felicia Wharton
The Identity Transformation Process Of The West Indian College Student, Felicia Wharton
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper provides an alternative perspective of how West Indian students renegotiate their core identity given their subsequent displacement and lack of social networks by means of the Cross Nigrescence theoretical framework.
Why Are They Studying English? Assessing The Goals, Beliefs, Needs, And Attitudes Of Adult Immigrants In Esl Programs, Olga D. Lambert
Why Are They Studying English? Assessing The Goals, Beliefs, Needs, And Attitudes Of Adult Immigrants In Esl Programs, Olga D. Lambert
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot a questionnaire for limited English proficient adults that would 1) provide adult ESL programs with information about their students' goals, needs, and attitudes and 2) enable large-scale data collection among these students for both program planning and research purposes.
Immigrant Students And The College Classroom Climate In Higher Education, Becky Appley Boesch
Immigrant Students And The College Classroom Climate In Higher Education, Becky Appley Boesch
Dissertations and Theses
In recent years, the immigrant population in the U.S. has increased dramatically. This increase has caused educational institutions to try to understand this population and their needs in order to aid in their academic success. While this awareness has surfaced in K-12 education, higher education continues, partly because of a lack of research on these students, to render these students and their needs insignificant. While this paper cannot begin to explore all the questions needed to be answered in terms of this population, it can provide an initial glimpse into one important aspect of education for the immigrant, the university …
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
One of the top reasons immigrants give for coming to the United States is a desire to provide better educa- · tional and economic opportunities for their families and children. Immigrants voice this sentiment regardless of their educational level, financial standing, or country of origin. Immigrant children express the sameintentions about education and being successful in life as do non-immigrant children. Fuligni (2001) studied the educational aspirations of 10th- and 12th-grade students of immigrant parents and found that 86.9 percent of them say that "going to college is necessary for what I want to do in the future," "I need …
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
One of the top reasons immigrants give for coming to the United States is a desire to provide better educa- · tional and economic opportunities for their families and children. Immigrants voice this sentiment regardless of their educational level, financial standing, or country of origin. Immigrant children express the sameintentions about education and being successful in life as do non-immigrant children. Fuligni (2001) studied the educational aspirations of 10th- and 12th-grade students of immigrant parents and found that 86.9 percent of them say that "going to college is necessary for what I want to do in the future," "I need …
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
Immigrant Parents: How To Help Your Child Succeed In School, Shamah Md-Yunus
ShamAh Md-Yunus
One of the top reasons immigrants give for coming to the United States is a desire to provide better educa- · tional and economic opportunities for their families and children. Immigrants voice this sentiment regardless of their educational level, financial standing, or country of origin. Immigrant children express the sameintentions about education and being successful in life as do non-immigrant children. Fuligni (2001) studied the educational aspirations of 10th- and 12th-grade students of immigrant parents and found that 86.9 percent of them say that "going to college is necessary for what I want to do in the future," "I need …
Exhibit Curriculum For Dominicans In New York: Lesson Outline, Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz
Exhibit Curriculum For Dominicans In New York: Lesson Outline, Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz
Open Educational Resources
The Dominicans in New York is a display highlighting the experiences and contributions of the New York Dominican population. This exhibit uses primary source materials from the archival collections of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives as well as secondary source materials from the Dominican Library including documents, photographs and memorabilia to create a visual history of Dominicans as they developed communities that became integral part of New York’s incredibly diverse human landscape. The purpose of the exhibit is to introduce, through carefully selected images, the complexity of the Dominican experience in New York to the general public, students, scholars, …
Exhibit Curriculum For Dominicans In New York: Lesson Overview, Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz
Exhibit Curriculum For Dominicans In New York: Lesson Overview, Sarah Aponte, Dania Diaz
Open Educational Resources
The Dominicans in New York is a display highlighting the experiences and contributions of the New York Dominican population. This exhibit uses primary source materials from the archival collections of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives as well as secondary source materials from the Dominican Library including documents, photographs and memorabilia to create a visual history of Dominicans as they developed communities that became integral part of New York’s incredibly diverse human landscape. The purpose of the exhibit is to introduce, through carefully selected images, the complexity of the Dominican experience in New York to the general public, students, scholars, …