EJ485348 JC506727
Title: Cultural Capital and Its Impact on the Aspirations of Nontraditional Community College Students.
Author(s): Valadez, James
Source: Community College Review, v21 n3 p30-43 Win 1993
Publication Date: 1993
ISSN: 0091-5521
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJOCT1994
Investigates the daily interactions between nontraditional students and the faculty, staff, and administration of a small, rural southeastern community college, based on ethnographic interviews, institutional documents, and observations. Reports on faculty perceptions of students, their lives and ambitions; students' emotional and support environment; and institutional influences on students' lives. (Contains 29 references.) (ECC)
Descriptors: College Faculty; College Role; Developmental Studies Programs; *Diversity (Institutional); *Educationally Disadvantaged; *High Risk Students; Minority Groups; *Nontraditional Students; Remedial Programs; *Student College Relationship; *Teacher Attitudes
