Promoting Native American College Student Recruitment Retention in Higher Education.
Richard S. Mosholder is an associate professor of psychology and Carolee A. Larsen is a lecturer in sociology, both with the Department of First Year and Transition Studies at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. Bryan Waite is an associate professor in International and Multicultural Studies and Christopher Goslin is an associate professor in Student Leadership and Success Studies, both at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. how best to communicate with Native students and to establish effective mentoring and advising relationships. Current theoretical models of persistence often assume a deficit based lens and assume students must conform to institutional norms (Harper, 2010; Hurtado Carter, 1997; Rendon, Jalomo Nora, 2000; Tierney, 1992) In extending the results of our previous two studies and to develop the survey that we used for the current study, we employed an assets based approach. We wanted to understand what contributes to Native American student success in a very Eurocentric environment and what role an institution could play in facilitating that success.