Path to the Professoriate : For High-achieving, First-generation College Students

ISBN-13: 9783639127171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

Timothy Eaton

Opis

Each year a large high-risk group of students participate in higher education, it includes peoples from across ethnicities, religions, genders, geographic areas, and even socioeconomic levels. The students in question are those whose parents did not attend college, known in higher education as first-generation college students. These students are under prepared in K-12 schools for access into postsecondary education, with almost half lacking the academic qualifications for admission to a 4-year college. Institutions are poorly equipped to help and the disadvantage continues through the attainment of degrees. The author conducted interviews with high-achieving first-generation college students who were able to overcome difficulties in order to gain access to higher education, persist through the maze of obstacles that confronts all students, and attain advanced degrees on their path to the professoriate. The insights on educational success should be read by instructors and administrators in K-12 schools, community colleges, public or private colleges and universities, as well as, other post-secondary institutions.

O autorze

Dr. Eaton holds three graduate degrees, including a
Ph.D. from The University of Oklahoma. He has over twenty years
of experience in Higher Education serving as an instructor,
student services director, chief academic officer, and is
currently President of Hillsdale College in Moore, Oklahoma.