Ethnicity Matters Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate degree completion. The four model programs serve students from those ethnic groups that face the most serious problems of underrepresentation in American higher education African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. What sets these four programs apart from most other minority college recruitment and retention efforts is that they are built on this premise: Ethnic identity plays an empowering role in educational achievement.

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The Editor: MaryJo Benton Lee holds a Ph.D. in sociology from South Dakota State University, where she is Diversity Coordinator for the College of Engineering. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the SDSU-Flandreau Indian School Success Academy, an early and intensive college preparatory program that serves two hundred and fifty American Indian high school students. She is the author of Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: How Minority Students in Southwest China Construct Identities (2001). She has written numerous articles and papers on issues relating to race and ethnicity, sociology of education, and Asian studies.

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Ethnicity Matters - Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate degree completion. The four model programs serve students from those ethnic groups that face the most serious problems of underrepresentation in American higher education - African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. What sets these four programs apart from most other minority college recruitment and retention efforts is that they are built on this premise: Ethnic identity plays an empowering role in educational achievement.

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Contents: MaryJo Benton Lee: Ethnicity Matters Julia E. Colyar: Neighborhood Academic Initiative: Connecting Culture and College Preparation Tim Nichols/Laurie Stenberg Nichols: 2+2+2: An Equation for Native American Student Success Derek Vergara/Len Hightower: First Generation Student Success Program: Latino/a Students and Families Working Together Diane Gillespie/Gillies Malnarich/George Woods: Critical Moments: Using College Students Border Narratives as Sites for Cultural Dialogue MaryJo Benton Lee: How and Why Ethnicity Matters: A Model for Developing Programs That Serve Students of Color.