Evaluating Latina Retention: The Negative Factors Affecting Latina Retention in Rural Colleges and Key Recommendations for Their Retention

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Author(s): Theresa Neimann (Shanghai Normal University, China)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 26
Source title: Handbook of Research on Positive Scholarship for Global K-20 Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Grand Canyon University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5667-1.ch020

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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This chapter explores issues and challenges Latinas face in remote-rural communities and identified key recommendations that are essential in order for Latinas to be successful in remote-rural community colleges. Ten Latina undergraduates who finished at least two terms of three credit-bearing class in a rural community college were the subjects of this qualitative study. The term Latina in this study refers to a female of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The participants named in this study are females regardless of how they self-identify ethnically who have ancestry from either of these countries.

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