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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Financial Aid for African Americans	Gail A. Schlachter,R. David Weber,Gail Ann Schlachter	There are billions of dollars available to African American undergraduate and graduate students (from accounting to zoology).	OL13750798W
La discrimination positive à l'université aux Etats-Unis	Elisée Montfajon	Aux Etats-Unis, dans le cadre des admissions à l'université, les politiques de discrimination positive en faveur des minorités ethno-raciales n'existent plus dans leur conception initiale, le princip…	OL13820670W
Students with Asperger syndrome	Lorraine E. Wolf	xiv, 337 p. : 23 cm	OL13857510W
Creating campus cultures	Samuel D. Museus	"Many colleges and universities have not engaged in a critical self-examination and transformation of the cultures of their campuses that can lead to most effectively serving racially diverse student…	OL16014460W
Arms and the university	Donald Alexander Downs	"Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ide…	OL16134578W
Educational experiences of hidden homeless teenagers	Ronald E. Hallett	"Homeless youth face countless barriers limiting their ability to complete a high school diploma and transition to postsecondary education. Their experiences vary widely based on family, access to so…	OL16282732W
The African American scholarship guide	Amber Classics (Publisher)	p. cm	OL16442502W
Reconstructing the campus	Michael David Cohen	The first book to examine the Civil War's immediate and long-term impact on higher education, Reconstructing the Campus begins by tracing college communities' responses to the secession crisis and th…	OL16465072W
Ebony and Ivy	Craig Steven Wilder	A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines acr…	OL16813049W
American Indians and Alaska natives in postsecondary education	D. Michael Pavel	1 volume (various pagings) : 28 cm	OL18291758W
A group of their own	Katherine H. Adams	"A Group of Their Own is the story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose. This unprecedented group incl…	OL1967791W
Upending the ivory tower	Stefan M. Bradley	"Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of Ameri…	OL19763530W
Right to dream	William A. Schwab	"The DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation first introduced in Congress in 2001, would provide conditional residency for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. It recognizes that un…	OL19970683W
Expanding the circle	John C. Hawley	Many educational professionals agree that the time has come to expand their circle of inclusion and broaden their definition of diversity by increasing LGBTQ studies, but the question of how to do so…	OL20023259W
Reparation and reconciliation	Christi Michelle Smith	"This is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle cla…	OL20048211W
Balancing life and education while being a part of a military family	Jillian Ventrone	Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic. With the proliferation of service member programs and benefits, and the spotlight on them, it is not uncommon for spouses to neglect looking in…	OL20052090W
The new life	Jeremy Varon	Examines the experiences of Jewish university students, survivors of the Holocaust who either remained as displaced persons in Germany or fled eastern Europe to the parts of Germany occupied by weste…	OL22311389W
Latinos in higher education and Hispanic-serving institutions	Anne-Marie Nuñez	Drawing on research grounded in Lation students' perspectives, identifies key challenges they face and offers approaches to address the challenges including recommendations for institutional, state, …	OL23149339W
Gendered perspectives on community college	Jaime Lester	This volume explores and begins to unravel the complexities of gender issues confronting men and women in two-year institutions. The authors address a wide range of questions that frame the current c…	OL27014335W
The Bennett College (Workshop Practice & Power Transmission	H Stenton Burdett	Contents – Chap 1 Contents – Chap 2 The Lathe – Chap 3 Lathe Tools and their uses – Chap 4 Special Types of Lathe – Chap 5 Boring Screwing, Drilling, and Milling Machines – Chap 6 Slotting, Shaping,…	OL4971155W