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Ethnic minorities in higher education adapting to a new social system

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This paper presents preliminary findings of a longitudinal study that focuses on the dynamic interaction between an individual of a minority culture and a new social system. Observations and clinical implications are reviewed within a cognitive/psychosocial model.

Students of Mexican extraction (nth generation citizens of the United States) are a distinct minority at the University of California, Berkeley. Of the approximately 30,000 students enrolled in 1980 — when this study was begun — only about 660 (2.2 percent) were identified as being Mexican-Americans.

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    Salvador Chavez

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Chavez, S. Ethnic minorities in higher education adapting to a new social system. Int J Adv Counselling 9, 381–384 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00124190

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