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More Than "Getting Us Through:" A Case Study in Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates

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dc.contributor.authorOvink, Sarahen
dc.contributor.authorVeazey, B. D.en
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-02T19:31:28Zen
dc.date.available2017-02-02T19:31:28Zen
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.description.abstractMinority students continue to be underrepresented among those who seek graduate and professional degrees in the sciences. Much previous research has focused on academic preparation. Equally important, however, are the psychological-social barriers and lack of institutional support encountered by many minority students. We present a case study of a university-sponsored intervention program for minority science majors that addresses not only academics, but also socialization into the academic community, networking, and the ability to practice newfound skills and dispositions through undergraduate research. In examining this case, we suggest that concerted, formal efforts toward expanding habitus and thereby augmenting cultural and social capital may have positive effects for underrepresented minority (URM) college students' academic and career prospects. Moreover, we argue that these differences complement the gains program participants make in academic preparedness, showing that attention to academics alone may be insufficient for addressing longstanding inequities in science career attainment among URM students.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extent370 - 394 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9198-8en
dc.identifier.issn0361-0365en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/74903en
dc.identifier.volume52en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24954971en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectCultural capitalen
dc.subjectInstitutional programsen
dc.subjectScienceen
dc.subjectUndergraduate educationen
dc.subjectUnderrepresented minoritiesen
dc.titleMore Than "Getting Us Through:" A Case Study in Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduatesen
dc.title.serialResearch in Higher Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Techen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciencesen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Sociologyen

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