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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Introduction: Engaging, Retaining, and Advancing African Americans in Executive-Level Positions: A Descriptive and Trend Analysis of Academic Administrators in Higher and Postsecondary Education (2004) · doi

  Needless to say, this gap in the research literature is a significant challenge for the field of higher and postsecondary education, not the least since diversity at all levels of the educational system is needed in order to meet the needs of the multicultural student population served (Watson et al.

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• Persistently Present, Yet Invisible? Exploring the Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area (2023) · doi

  Through employing critical race theory, seen-invisibility, and circuits of dispossession as theoretical frames, this article complicates discourses around equity and Black student achievement by examining the underexplored experiences of high-achieving Black Canadian students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

  Keywords: black employing critical race theory seen invisibility circuits dispossession theoretical frames article complicates discourses around
• Pathways to Financing College (2016) · doi

  Based on students’ narratives, this article addresses these gaps in the literature by developing the concept of pathways to financing college to capture race- and class-based inequalities in the financial, cultural, and social capital students draw on as they navigate college costs and how these resources change over time.

  Keywords: based students college narratives article addresses gaps literature developing concept pathways financing capture race class
• Racialization and belonging in higher education: Counternarratives of Turkish Belgian students from a community cultural wealth perspective. (2024) · doi

  This research seeks to fill in the gaps in the literature by centralizing the experiences of marginalized students as valuable resources of knowledge and challenging the deficit framework that rationalizes inequities by blaming racialized ethnic minority communities as lacking capital to succeed within the education system.

  Keywords: seeks fill gaps literature centralizing experiences marginalized students valuable resources knowledge challenging deficit framework rationalizes
• Cross-Cultural Educational Experiences and Academic Achievement of Ghanaian Immigrant Youth in Urban Public Schools (2016) · doi

  Little is known, however, about factors that promote cross-cultural experiences, academic achievement, and/or challenges of Black African immigrant youth, which is particularly significant today in the midst of the current social and political discourse over the influence of immigration in U.

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