{"id":657,"date":"2015-02-10T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=657"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:09:20","slug":"black-males-and-the-community-college-student-perspectives-on-faculty-and-academic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/black-males-and-the-community-college-student-perspectives-on-faculty-and-academic-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Males and the Community College: Student Perspectives on Faculty and Academic Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood, J. L., &amp; Turner, C. S. (2010). Black Males and the Community College: Student Perspectives on Faculty and Academic Success.\u00a0<em>Community College Journal of Research and Practice<\/em>,\u00a035(1-2), 135-151.<\/p>\n<p>This article highlights findings from a qualitative study of factors affecting the academic success of African American male students in the community college. Data was collected through interviews with 28 Black male students in a midsized institution in the southwestern United States. Findings illuminated four key faculty-initiated elements that serve to create and maintain positive faculty-student relationships: (a) being friendly and caring from the onset; (b) monitoring and proactively addressing students&#8217; academic progress; (c) listening to students&#8217; concerns; and (d) encouraging students to succeed. The intricate interrelationship of these elements are discussed through the &#8220;voices&#8221; and first-hand experiences of student participants. Implications for practice are discussed that suggest these four elements as basic components for faculty training and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/works.bepress.com\/jluke_wood\/32\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood, J. L., &amp; Turner, C. S. (2010). Black Males and the Community College: Student Perspectives on Faculty and Academic Success.\u00a0Community College Journal of Research and Practice,\u00a035(1-2), 135-151. This article highlights findings from a qualitative study of factors affecting the academic success of African American male students in the community&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/black-males-and-the-community-college-student-perspectives-on-faculty-and-academic-success\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,666,17,29,433,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-higher-education-he","7":"tag-16","8":"tag-c-s-turner","9":"tag-community-college","10":"tag-j-l-wood","11":"tag-relationships","12":"tag-success","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}