MEXICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
The Mexican American Community College Experience: Fostering Resilience, Achieving Success
Publisher’s Summary:
The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge of educating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges, the largest institutions in today’s landscape of higher education. It describes the cultivation of resilience in these students and how engaging, dynamic faculty help them succeed in their studies. This blending of psychology and education theory, with a critical twist, shows how faculty help students develop a foundation of resilience and a larger sense of purpose based on their unique knowledge, pedagogies, and culture, an area not traditionally addressed in curriculum and instruction. Creative teaching, resilience, and energetic student stories make this a celebration of Mexican American success at a major regional community college on the U.S–Mexico border.
Praise for the Mexican American Community College Experience:
"Resilience is the overarching theme of this book. The Mexican American Community College Experience is the result of a multi-year study of first-generation Mexican American community college students "who faced difficult circumstances because of their multiple intersections and negotiated their adversity in ways that helped them achieve success[,]” and of the professors who inspired them to succeed (121). According to Campa, her book “is about resilience, the ability to work around obstacles, break through barriers, and ultimately move forward” (xv). The Mexican American Community College Experience is an important achievement, being the first major study that concentrates specifically on the experience of Mexican American community college students. This is also a book that reached me deeply and in a very personal manner. As an immigrant from an impoverished background who started my higher education at a community college almost twenty years ago, I personally felt validated and inspired to continue being a role model and an inspiration to my own students at the community college where I teach."
--Juan Galvan, PhD, Visiting Professor of History,
Lone Star College, Kingwood, Houston Texas
“Blanca's well written, comprehensive, and inspiring work is a must read, not just for those concerned with Latino education, but for anyone deeply concerned about the viability of America's social and economic future.”
--Erik E. Morales, PhD, Professor/Chair of Department of Elementary & Secondary Education,
New Jersey City University
“Blanca Campa provides a very powerful framework to describe resilience among Mexican Americans in the borderlands. The book brings narratives together that allow the reader to see how theory and qualitative research are applied in real life. The rigorous analysis of each story helps us be more reflective, observant, and think more clearly about the obstacles students face while navigating college. This book is essential reading that covers many significant issues and sheds light on the inequalities of higher education.”
--Joel Alejandro Mejia, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Angelo State University
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