Family, Community, and Higher Education

Toby S. Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Integrative Studies at George Mason University.

• Introduction: Family First Toby S. Jenkins Section I: Family 1. It’s a Family Affair: The Journey to College Billy Brown and Breanna Brown 2. Love Lessons from "The Hood" Ashley Hazelwood 3. Home Training: Family, Struggle, Resilience, and Everything in Between Anthony R. Keith, Jr. 4. Speaking Those Things That Be Not As Though They Are: The Role of Faith in Caregivers’ Educational Hopes for Their Differently-Abled Son Michael and LaChan V. Hannon Section II: Mothers 5. Extending a Hand: Grateful My Grandmother Raised Me Ce Garrison 6. Mama Says: Activist, Pedagogue, and Feminist? Crystal L. Endsley with Clara Endsley 7. A Generation Makes a Difference: A Mother and Daughter Reflect on Life and College Joan Marie Giampa and Giovanna Bargh Fini 8. Mother May I? A Daughter of a Low-Income, First-Generation, Single Parent Household Goes to College Sinitra N. Johnson Section III: Fathers 9. Gifts from My Father Sondra Frank 10. Piece by Piece: Laying Down the Road Map to Purpose and Agency Edward J. Smith 11. Unconventional Genius: Father Knows Best Toby S. Jenkins Section IV: Community 12. Third Culture Students: Accounting for Family, Distance, and Separation of American-Born and Internationally-Raised U.S. College Students Aracelie L. Castro 13. Feminist Ujamaa: Transnational Feminist Pedagogies, Community, and Family in East Africa Marla L. Jaksch 14. Community and Family as Critical Sites for Transformative Education: Implications for Practice Toby S. Jenkins