Colleges are seeing more under-resourced students than ever before. College culture traditionally wants students to conform to standards of behavior and academic performance. A deeper understanding of the challenges and strengths that students from poverty bring to college will help faculty, staff, and administration create the conditions that make success achievable, not merely accessible. By addressing the needs of the under-resourced college student, this workshop provides a wealth of resources for postsecondary education.
Based in part on Dr. Ruby Payne’s myth-shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Phil DeVol and Terie Dreussi-Smith’s collaboration with Payne on Bridges Out of Poverty, this workshop provides practical solutions and innovative possibilities. The focused professional development moves faculty and staff through a transformational process by first building understanding of the “what and why” of under-resourced college students and then moving on to develop “how-to” teaching and program-design strategies to help students succeed.
