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Bandwidth Recovery explores how students' cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed in college.
List of contents
Part 1: The Bandwidth Tax of Marginalization: Poverty, Racism, and Economic Inequality 1. Physical Health 2. Mental Health 3. Economic Inequality and Its Cost in Human Capacity 4. Available Cognitive Capacity - Bandwidth
Part 2: Sociopsychological Underminers: Broken Connection 5. Childhood Trauma 6. Belonging Uncertainty 7. Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat 8. Human Connection 9. Focus on LGBTQ Students 10. Neurodiversity 11. Uncertainty: Existential Anxieties
Part 3: Supporting Bandwidth Recovery 12. Trauma-informed/Asset-focused Practice 13. Belonging: Building Community/Intentional Connection 14. Decreasing Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat 15. Growth Mindset 16. Minimizing Uncertainty: Institutional Structures and Processes
About the author
Cia Verschelden has over 30 years of faculty, administrative, and student affairs experience at both two- and four-year public institutions. Most recently, she was a Special Projects Advisor at the Association of American Colleges and Universities and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Malcolm X College in Chicago. She holds an EdD from Harvard University and an MSW from the University of Connecticut.
Summary
Bandwidth Recovery explores how students’ cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed in college.
