Foreword "When Need Meets Opportunity" Jeffrey Bartlett, College Specialist, Hartford Public High School Preface Elsa M. Nunez, President; Eastern Connecticut State University Introduction Part One: Beginnings *Introduction: The American Dream *Chapter 1. A Personal Journey: El Fanguito and the Flight to Newark *Chapter 2: The Dream of College Comes True Part Two: The Need for Innovative Educational Initiatives *Chapter 3. Tobacco Valley and the Thread City Blues: The Story of Latinos in Connecticut *Chapter 4. Closing the Achievement Gap: Sharing the American Dream *Chapter 5. Off the Streets and into Class: The Birth of the Dual College Enrollment Program Part Three: Student Stories *Chapter 6. Federica Bucca '13 *Chapter 7. Ismael Gracia *Chapter 8. Whitley Mingo '13 *Chapter 9. Todd Aviles *Chapter 10: Maria Burgos-Jimenez '12 *Chapter 11. Eshwar Gulcharran Part Four: A Model for Reform Chapter 12: How Inner-City Students Can Succeed on Your Campus
Elsa Nunez , a native of Puerto Rico, grew up in Newark, New Jersey. During a career spanning more than 40 years, she has served as a faculty member and administrator at colleges and universities in New York City, Massachusetts, and Maine. For the past nine years, she has led Eastern Connecticut State University as its president.
Hanging Out and Hanging On is a compelling and engaging book. By
combining socioeconomic background and personal narrative, the
author humanizes the statistics and contextualizes the personal
struggles of the students whose lives she documents. Nunez adds an
additional dimension to this work by describing some of her own
struggles and explaining to the reader how she has used the
insights from her life to construct an effective program to support
student success. Listening to the students' stories allows the
reader to hear the power of a liberal education working firsthand
in these students' lives. Their minds open to growth and insight as
they describe their journey through the university. This book
should be read by anyone who is concerned about the success and
uplift of all students who struggle with poverty and stress in
their own families and manage to succeed as college students in
spite of the challenges. -- Jane Fried, professor and director of
the student development in higher education Master's Degree in
Counseling program at Central Connecticut State University and the
author of several books on higher education, including
"Transformative Learning through Engagement: Student Affairs
Practice as...
Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to the Campus is that
rare book that puts facts and figures in the context of the human
condition. It does more than just identify the challenge we have in
promoting access and opportunity to America's students as "one
nation under God." It brings life to that challenge and explicitly
outlines what works and why it works. Elsa Nunez and the community
at Eastern Connecticut State University have demonstrated what can
be done to truly impact the opportunity gap. As someone who made it
from the projects to the campus myself, I found this book to be
inspirational and authentic. -- Peter Rosa, senior program officer
for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and former member of
the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University
System
Dr. Elsa Nunez's Hanging Out and Hanging On: From the Projects to
the Campus shines a beacon of hope on inner-city students,
illuminating a path by which they can travel the road to college
and away from the cycles of poverty, crime, and societal, parental,
and their personal expectations of low achievement. Rooted in Dr.
Nunez's own early educational challenges as a Puerto Rican
immigrant and inspired by the highly successful Dual College
Enrollment Program instituted at Eastern Connecticut State
University, the school over which she presides, Hanging Out and
Hanging On shows educators how to walk the walk as well as talk the
talk. The book also gives voice to the participants of the Dual
College Enrollment program: Latino and African-American students
from the 'hood whose stories of success and how they achieved it
illustrate the program's basic tenets of inspiration, opportunity,
and support. -- Wally Lamb, former English professor at the
University of Connecticut and author of four books including "We
are Water," 14 year volunteer at York Prison in Niantic, producing
two collections of writings by the female inmates
Elsa Nunez is one of the most forward-looking, ambitious university
presidents in America. She has written a path-finding book that is
a roadmap for reaching and educating students who are often
overlooked in the system. Her writing style is engaging, authentic,
and honest. Everyone from college administrators to high school
teachers to parents should read Nunez's groundbreaking book. --
Jeff Benedict, Eastern alumnus and New York Times bestselling
author of 11 books, including, "The System," frequent writer for
Sports Illustrated
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