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"Dear Students: 10 Letters to Empower and Transform Your Higher Education Journey is a higher education guide that prepares students to authentically and intentionally ""do school."" This is not your typical ""how-to"" guide. Dear Students uses narratives to illuminate critical topics that will foster the reader’s understanding of valuable matters such as getting noticed and having your experiences centered; building a circle of support; the significance of faculty relationships including building those relationships in spaces like office hours; addressing fears of speaking, disrupting silence, and engaging voice in the classroom; developing deep listening; cultivating community; nurturing belonging; preparing to participate; and keeping hope alive. Readers will engage moments of critical reflection and leave with many diverse ""know-how"" strategies that will position them to ""do-school"" from a place of empowerment and for the purpose of transformation. This book will support the journey of all students, and the people who support them, but is an especially important resource for students holding marginalized identities such as first-generation college students."

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"""What a gift is this little guidebook! For all the marginalized and disenfranchised students—or any students, in fact—who wonder how to cope with the 'hidden curriculum' and their own 'imposter syndrome,' here are the real answers. Meredith Madden, renowned for connecting with anyone she teaches, tells the secrets of how to 'do college.' Served up in readable, bite-sized bits of memorable but totally practical wisdom—things you can actually do, things that work—Madden helps students become the masters of their own education while forging the relationships with peers and teachers that can best help them succeed."" Daniel F. Chambliss, Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Hamilton College ""This is the 'handbook' I wish had been in my hands as a first-year student at a predominantly white liberal arts college as one of 12 Black students recruited, essentially, to integrate the institution. One parent came from a university-educated family, but she was an immigrant. The other parent finished his high-school equivalency in the US Army. Neither were equipped to guide or offer specific help. Dear Students: 10 Letters to Empower and Transform Your Higher Education Journey is a volume of 'multilingual' letters, so speaks as academic advisor, professor, and parent with concrete how-tos accompanied by institutional, socio-political, and psychological explanations of what students experience often without being able to comprehend fully. Therefore, they fall into the default: self-blame, shame, guilt with not many places to turn. This volume is exactly the resource needed to help ALL students engage fully, take risks, work hard, seek advice and support, and, simply, to bring their whole selves into the higher-education institution. Bravo!"" Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University"

What a gift is this little guidebook! For all the marginalized and disenfranchised students-or any students, in fact-who wonder how to cope with the 'hidden curriculum' and their own 'imposter syndrome,' here are the real answers. Meredith Madden, renowned for connecting with anyone she teaches, tells the secrets of how to 'do college.' Served up in readable, bite-sized bits of memorable but totally practical wisdom-things you can actually do, things that work-Madden helps students become the masters of their own education while forging the relationships with peers and teachers that can best help them succeed. Daniel F. Chambliss, Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Hamilton College This is the 'handbook' I wish had been in my hands as a first-year student at a predominantly white liberal arts college as one of 12 Black students recruited, essentially, to integrate the institution. One parent came from a university-educated family, but she was an immigrant. The other parent finished his high-school equivalency in the US Army. Neither were equipped to guide or offer specific help. Dear Students: 10 Letters to Empower and Transform Your Higher Education Journey is a volume of 'multilingual' letters, so speaks as academic advisor, professor, and parent with concrete how-tos accompanied by institutional, socio-political, and psychological explanations of what students experience often without being able to comprehend fully. Therefore, they fall into the default: self-blame, shame, guilt with not many places to turn. This volume is exactly the resource needed to help ALL students engage fully, take risks, work hard, seek advice and support, and, simply, to bring their whole selves into the higher-education institution. Bravo! Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University

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Meredith Madden is Assistant Professor of Education at Utica University. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University. A publicly engaged scholar activist, her recent work has been published in the Teaching for Social Justice Series and in Equity and Excellence in Education. Information on Meredith's consulting services through her program The Equity Prof can be found by visiting www.equityprof.com.

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