Potential Roles a College Counselor Can Play in Promoting the Academic Success of Students of Color
✍ Scribed by Avelino Mills-Novoa
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1099-0399
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✦ Synopsis
The college counselor can play a leadership role in decreasing the sense of alienation students of color feel and improve retention rates through the sponsorship of relationship and awarenessbuilding activities. The author discusses instiiutional and community barriers, describes interpersonal outcomes, and reports the suggestions of students, staff. and faculty who attended a counseling center-sponsored retreat and focus groups.
The disproportionate dropout rates experienced by students of color are, in part, a function of a clash between the culture that the students of color bring with them and the culture underlying predominantly White academic institutions. The resulting chasm may be playing a role in making students of color feel isolated and marginalized. The college counselor may be able to play a leadership role in facilitating academic success and decreasing the sense of alienation being reported by students of color.
The goal of this article is to discuss institutional and community barriers that students, faculty, and staff of color report; describe the intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes of counseling-center-sponsored activities; and report a set of suggestions made by groups of students, staff, and faculty who attended a counseling-center-sponsored retreat and focus groups.