Readings that shape our mission…
Pedagogy and Retention
Braxton, John. The Role of the Classroom in College Student Persistence. San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Print.
Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition. 1st ed. New Press, 2006. Print.
Social Belonging
“Social-Psychological Interventions in Education: They’re Not Magic.” David Yeager and Gregory Walton (2011) Review of Educational Research
“Mere Belonging: The Power of Social Connections.” Gregory M. Walton, Geoffrey L. Cohen, David Cwir, and Steven Spencer (2011) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Stereotype Threat
Aronson, Joshua et al. “When White Men Can’t Do Math: Necessary and Sufficient Factors in Stereotype Threat.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 35.1 (1999): 29–46. Print.
Inzlicht, Michael, and Toni Schmader. Stereotype Threat : Theory, Process, and Application. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
Koenig, Anne M., and Alice H. Eagly. “Stereotype Threat in Men on a Test of Social Sensitivity.” Sex Roles 52.7/8 (2005): 489–496. Print.
Smith, Christine, and Reginald Hopkins. “Mitigating the Impact of Stereotypes on Academic Performance: The Effects of Cultural Identity and Attributions For Success Among African American College Students.” Western Journal of Black Studies 28.1 (2004): 312–321. Print.
Steele, Claude. “A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance.” Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity in Higher Education. Ed. Eugene Y. Lowe. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Print.
–.“Thin Ice.” Atlantic Monthly 284.2 (1999): 44. Print.
—. Whistling Vivaldi : How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. Print.
Steele, Claude, Steven J. Spencer, and Joshua Aronson. “Contending With Group Image: The Psychology of Stereotype and Social Identity Threat.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 34 (2002): 379–440. Print.
Understanding Student Experiences
Gloria, Alberta. “An Examination of Academic Nonpersistence Decisions of Latino Undergraduates.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 27.2 (2005): 202–202–223. Print.
González, Laura. “Adjustment of Undergraduate Latino Students at a Southeastern University.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 7.3 (2008): 199–199–211. Print.
Kuh, George. “Unmasking the Effects of Student Engagement on First-Year College Grades and Persistence.” Journal of Higher Education 79.5 (2008): 540–540–563. Print.
Lopez, J. “Race-Related Stress and Sociocultural Orientation Among Latino Students During Their Transition Into a Predominately White, Highly Selective Institution.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 4.4 (2005): 354–354–365. Print.
General Retention
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists : Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Print.
Perry, Theresa, Claude Steele, and Asa G Hilliard. Young, Gifted, and Black : Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. Print.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race. Basic Books, 1997. Print.
Aragon, Steven. “Beyond Access: Methods and Models for Increasing Retention and Learning Among Minority Students.” New Directions for Community Colleges 2000.112 (2000): I–I–IV. Print.
Composition-Specific Readings
Branch, Kirk. “Eyes on the Ought to Be”: What We Teach About When We Teach About Literacy. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2007. Print.
Canagarajah, A. “Safe Houses in the Contact Zone: Coping Strategies of African-American Students in the Academy.” College Composition and Communication 48.2 (1997): 173. Print.
—. “Toward a Writing Pedagogy of Shuttling between Languages: Learning from Multilingual Writers.” College English 68.6 (2006): 589–589–604. Print.
Haswell, Janis, Richard Haswell, and Glenn Blalock. “Hospitality in College Composition Courses.” College composition and communication. 60.4 (2009): 707. Print.
Powell, Malea. “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing.” College Composition and Communication 53.3 (2002): 396. Print.
Powell, P. “Retention and Writing Instruction: Implications for Access and Pedagogy.”College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009): 664–664–682. Print.
Smitherman, Geneva. “‘Students’ Right to Their Own Language’: A Retrospective.” English Journal 84.1 (1995): 21–27. Print.
Decolonial Methodologies
Arola, Kristin. “Slow Composition: An Indigenous Approach to Digital Making.” Digital Discussions in the Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquia Series. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 2014.
Bury, J.B. The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth. New York: Dover Publications, 1932. Print.
Cordova, V. F. How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova. Ed. Kathleen Dean Moore, et al. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. Print.
Hampton, Eber. “Memory Comes Before Knowledge: Research May Improve If Researchers Remember Their Motives.” Canadian Journal of Native Education 21 (1995): 46–54. Print.
King, Lisa, Rose Gubele and Joyce Rain Anderson, Eds. Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics. Utah State University Press, 2015. Print.
Maracle, Lee. Oratory: Coming to Theory. North Vancouver: Gallerie Publications, 1990. Print.
Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Print.
—. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Print.
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, and Angela Cavender Wilson, eds. Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Print.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies. 2nd ed. London: Zed Books, 2012. Print.
Weber-Pillwax, Cora. “Indigenous Research Methodology: Exploratory Discussion of an Elusive Subject.” Journal on Educational Thought 33.1 (1999): 31–45. Print.
Wilson, Shawn. Research As Ceremony. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008. Print.