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Mentoring At-risk Students Through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education
Author(s): Buffy Smith (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 7 Jun. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 194 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739165666
- ISBN-13: 9780739165669
Book Description
This book offers an innovative mentoring model that illuminates how students can navigate the hidden curriculum of higher education. In addition, the book provides practical strategies on how to avoid academic mine fields in order to thrive in college. This book is written for administrators, faculty, student affairs professionals and students to promote retention, academic success, and create a more transparent, inclusive, and equitable higher education system.
See here for an article by the author on mentoring programs in colleges and universities published in Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/04/book-argues-mentoring-programs-should-try-unveil-colleges-hidden-curriculum
To learn about a recent presentation by the author, see here: http://diverseeducation.com/article/66772/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=82772667e2334157934731fc05a8fe9c&elqCampaignId=358
Editorial Reviews
Review
Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education offers a unique window into deepening our understanding about who is and who is not achieving ‘The American Dream.’ Grounded in solid research, Buffy Smith examines issues related to access, advising, affordability, mentoring relationships, the curriculum and institutional culture, and makes implications for faculty, administrators, policy makers, students, and institutional leaders for reshaping higher education institutions into places where the desire to achieve a post-secondary education is not just a mission or dream, but a reality!
Notably best suited for administrators and faculty within institutions of higher education, this text would also be insightful to any reader interested in education reform, academic advising and mentoring, and social equity in education. . . .Perhaps what I found most helpful in the book were the multitude of fictionalized examples (based on actual experiences of students and mentors) of the hidden curriculum in action which illuminated for me the variety of struggles many at-risk students face.
The long-term interests of the country demand that more students get into and graduate from college, and Buffy Smith outlines what needs to happen if first generation students are going to succeed. She offers us portraits of students in college and then delineates the challenges they face in their educational journeys. Smith suggests that mentoring, rightly constructed, can help ‘at-risk’ students succeed and that the real challenge is to help students navigate an environment with which they are not familiar. Thoughtful, engaging and nicely written, Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs provides helpful hints for both mentor and mentee to help students succeed.
