Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students

The degree to which your post-secondary school understands and supports students from poverty makes all the difference in meeting your recruitment, retention, and graduation goals. Understanding your students starts with better information about their personal experience of poverty, and about the skills and strengths they bring with them to college. Supporting your students involves creating opportunities to access a variety of resources, remedial education relevant to their lives, and fully engaged relationships inside of school and out.

You'll learn to:
Recognize the impact of economic class on student preparedness and educational success

Build on students' existing resources, experiences, and abilities

Encourage student success through curriculum design and programming

Partner with communities and businesses to support academic progress

Help students look beyond the classroom through service learning and civic engagement (From the Publisher)