The Financial Hardship Monster: Navajo College Students' Stories of Poverty and College Cost

• In Event: Racial Identities, Campus Climate, and Institutional Culture

Abstract

Native American students are an underrepresented population in higher education with discouraging high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates when compared to the general population. Using Tribal Critical Race Theory, this qualitative study explores systematic forces that influence Native American students’ college pathways.

Author

• Amanda Tachine, Arizona State University - Tempe