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Making Something of It: The Untold Stories of Promising Black Males at a Predominately White Institution of Higher Education
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Funk, Michael Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Promising Black males are an understudied and underserved population in the field of higher education. The purpose of this study was to understand how promising Black males define academic success and to identify the factors that affect academic success at a large predominately White public institutions of higher education located in the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Success, Academic Achievement