Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students

by Karen A. Becker, Karla M. Krodel, Bethanie H. Tucker

Overview

A powerful tool for improving retention and graduation rates—Provides post-secondary educators, administrators, and student support services personnel with a comprehensive and focused look at both the needs of students and strategies for their success.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013407152
Publisher:	aha Process Inc
Publication date:	08/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	314
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Karen A. Becker, Ph.D., has taught developmental courses for more than 20 years and presently serves as coordinator of the Reading and Study Skills Center at Youngstown State University. Her research interests include the use of reading and writing as vehicles for learning, which she has been sharing with college faculty and staff through professional development. A certified trainer in A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Bridges Out of Poverty, Dr. Becker is uniquely familiar with the challenges facing under-resourced postsecondary students. Karla M. Krodel, M.B.A., holds an undergraduate nursing degree from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as a master s degree from Kent State University. In her current position as director of the Youngstown State University Metro Credit Education Outreach, she helps create partnerships that bring college programs to under-served populations. YSU trained 300 college and trade school students in the Getting Ahead concepts. She joined the YSU staff as a grant writer, workforce development program director, and research associate in the Urban Studies Department. Ms. Krodel is also a certified trainer in the Bridges Out of Poverty program, a key resource in the creation of this book. Bethanie H. Tucker, Ed.D., is a trainer and consultant with a diverse career in education spanning nearly four decades, including teaching positions in elementary classrooms, Title I reading, gifted education, and adjunct faculty at the University of Virginia. Since 1990 she has been a professor of education at Averett University. Author of several books, she is the creator of Tucker Signing Strategies, an approach to teaching letter-sound recognition to struggling readers. This technique has been introduced to teachers in most U.S. states, as well as Australia and China. Dr. Tucker s training and consulting expertise includes reading-related presentations, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Learning Structures, and Under-Resourced Learners. Formerly a full-need scholarship college student herself, she made it through thanks to caring professors who provided the resources she needed to succeed.