Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America: Factors Affecting Student Success

Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America combines biographical sketches of resilient students, examples of effective programs designed to encourage resilience, recent research in the field, and their own experiences of resilient academics of color. The book illustrates exactly how academic success occurs within traditionally challenged learning environments. The authors focus most closely on the crucial transition between high school and college. The individuals spotlighted and programs outlined cross racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines, and include African American, Hispanic, and white students. In part, the authors conclude that there are specific multidimensional protective factors that work collaboratively to enable the success of these exceptional students. It is the detailed exploration of these phenomena that lie at the heart of this work and that has the potential to help all children excel.
Among other uses, this book could be a valuable addition to a college freshmen seminar series, a foundations of education course, a course on multiculturalism in America and/or any course focused on basic educational psychology.

The Authors: Erik E. Morales is Assistant Dean for the Pace University School of Education, New York City Campus. He received his Ph.D. in higher education administration from New York University. Dr. Morales has directed a university learning center, designed and run high school-to-college summer-bridge programs, and taught at the middle/high school levels as well undergraduate and graduate courses. He is the author of numerous articles focused on facilitating resilience, retention, and student success.
Frances K. Trotman is Professor of Psychology at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, where she is also Director of the Graduate Program in Psychological Counseling. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University. She is the founder and director of her own psychotherapy institute and a noted expert on the psychology of African American women, mothering the African American child, race IQ and the middle class, and encouraging resilience through counseling individuals in stressful life situations.