Recruiting, retaining, and engaging African American males at selective public research universities : challenges and opportunities in academics and sports

• Other Authors: Castenell, Louis Anthony, 1947- (Editor), Grantham, Tarek C. (Editor), Hawkins, Billy Joe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018.
• Series: Contemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement.
• Subjects: African American male college students.; African American college athletes.; African American men > Education, Higher.; Academic achievement > United States.; Universities and colleges > United States > Sociological aspects.; Education > Multicultural Education.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; Educational strategies and policy.; Ethnic groups and multicultural studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806607723
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-273-2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages)

A problematic, yet uncommon, assumption among many higher education researchers is that recruitment, retention, and engagement of African-American males is relatively similar and stable across all majority White colleges and universities. In fact, the harsh reality is that selective public research...

Table of Contents:

• The cultural collusion and collision in the evolution of highly selective universities : a historical overview of SPRUS at the American public's expense / Louis Castenell and Quincy Brewington
• African American males' academic preparation in K-12 settings for highly selective universities / Natoya Hill Haskins and Kelley Olds
• Desegregating the University System of Georgia (USG) and establishing the African American male initiative at the University of Georgia (UGA) : from USG shame to UGA GAAME / Tarek Grantham and Louis Castenell
• Project gentlemen on the move : model for creating a pipeline of African American male scholars / Deryl Bailey and Pam Paisley
• College athletics : access and opportunity for Black male athletes at selective research universities / Billy Hawkins and Akuoma C. Nwadike
• Changing the game : when African American professors engage African American student-athletes / Louis Harrison Jr, Alvin Logan, Devin Walker, and Leonard Moore
• African American student athletes and engagement in the college student experience / Joy Gayles and Eddie Comeaux
• Deconstructing "gods and monsters" : Black men, manhood, and college athletics / T. Elon Dancy II and Larry Birdine
• When the cheers fade : rethinking college transitions for Black male student-athletes and reframing success / Eugene T. Parker, Jarvis A. McCowin, Nicholas Katopol, Tevin Robbins, Malik S. Henfield and Anthony Ferguson
• Crouching talents, hidden gifts : the dualism of academic excellence and athletic development for gifted African American student-athletes at selective public research universities / Kristina Henry Collins and Andre Mark Perry
• "We are AAMRI" : redefining Black male excellence at the University of Texas at Austin / Darren D. Kelly, Martin P. Smith, and Cameron McCoy
• African American male initiatives : creating cultures of inclusion and climates of success at select public research universities / Zoe M. Johnson
• African American males in TRIO programs / Daniel Isaiah Thompson
• Using an antideficit achievement approach to examine a Black male college student's pursuit of a career in computer science / Darris R. Means and Raphael D. Coleman
• Shades of black : Black male law school enrollment by ethnic status / Daryl McAdoo, Chantel Jones, and Walter R. Allen.