Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students

Synopsis

This Book Explores How Institutions Of Higher Education Can Successfully Serve ‘breakaway’ Students—first Generation, Low-income Students Who Are Trying To Break Away From The Past In Order To Create A More Secure Future. The Gap Between Low-ses (socioeconomic Status) And High-ses Students Persists As Efforts To Close It Have Not Met With Great Success. In This Book, Karen Gross Offers An Approach To Addressing Inequities By Focusing On Students Who Have Succeeded Despite Struggling With The Impacts Of Poverty And Trauma. Gross Draws On Her Experience As A College President To Outline Steps That Post-secondary Institutions Can Take To Create Structures Of Support And Opportunity That Build Reciprocal Trust. Can You See The Stars At Night? -- Anchoring Lasticity -- Who Are Our Students?--now And Into The Future -- Breakaway Students And Culture Change -- Yes, The Positives Of Toxic Stress And Trauma -- Elasticity, One Of Lasticity's Building Blocks -- The Untapped Power Of Plasticity -- Pivoting Right -- Lasticity's Reciprocal Heart -- Belief In Self Isn't Easy -- Animating Lasticity On A College Campus -- Lasticity Big Time -- Lasticity's Hurdles And How To Surmount Them -- Money And Its Meaning -- Lasticity's Growing Urgency -- Lasticity's Entrance Into The Lexicon -- Promises Made And Kept. Karen Gross. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 179-206) And Index.