Synopsis
This volume brings together academic librarians from North America for 16 chapters that detail strategies for retaining and graduating nontraditional students, particularly international, transfer, first-generation, and re-entry/older students from all types of higher education institutions. They draw on learning theories and teaching methods to describe methods, best practices, and case studies, as well as ideas for new services, spaces, and outreach opportunities. They address supporting first-generation students, overcoming language barriers, instruction and information literacy, stressors for returning adult students in online learning environments, library instruction for multilingual students, online learning for English language learners, an online academic integrity tutorial for international graduate students, reaching first-generation and underrepresented students through transparent assignment design, a research-writing practicum to increase student agency and engagement, interdepartmental collaboration to target the research and writing challenges of international graduate students, strategies to diversify digital collections to support first-generation students, campus and library support strategies, developing language skills and connections through games, creating community for transfer students through a library picnic, single-parent students, and older, transfer, and commuter student involvement in the library. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
About the Author
Ngoc-Yen Tran is a senior assistant librarian at San Jose State University. She holds an MLIS from University of Washington. The focus of her research is on high-impact educational practices, especially the high-impact practice of undergraduate research experiences on transfer students and other nontraditional student populations. Her library and information science research revolves around scholarly communications topics, such as librarians seeking research collaborations and the landscape of library and information science monograph publishing.
Silke Higgins is an associate librarian at San Jose State University. She holds an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her primary research revolves around the role libraries play in furthering the academic success of nontraditional students, with focus on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speakers. Research topics include jargon-use of dominant discourse communities and its effect on nontraditional student communities, as well research on motivating nontraditional student populations with the use of culturally-sensitive approaches.
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