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This chapter describes the participants’ experiences traveling to and arriving on campus and their experiences within their first semester of being in college. From this general focus, the chapter sharpens to discuss the participants’ adjustment and transition to a new identity as college students. Entering college for many of these students, most of whom were first generation, was more than just a matter of moving into a residence hall and finding their way around. The participants discussed finances, academic transitions, and the realities of being Black at their traditionally White college.
The 11 narratives in this chapter are organized by participants’ years in college, the earliest in 1948 and latest in 1964, then by institution from 8 colleges.
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Stewart, DL. (2017). Arriving on Campus. In: Black Collegians’ Experiences in US Northern Private Colleges. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59077-0_5
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