Institutional Structures and Processes

• Published in: Bandwidth Recovery pp. 108 - 113
• Main Author: Verschelden, Cia
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2017
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Health Association National College Health; LGBT Student; Experience Housing Insecurity; Young Man; Identity Threat; Mundane Extreme Environmental Stress; John Henryism; Growth Mind Set Interventions; Federal Reserve; Adult Hope Scale; Minimum GPA; Summer Bridge Programs; LGBTQ Youth; Freshman Learning Communities; Humboldt State University; Pell Eligible Students; Nonmajority Students; LGBT Youth; College Health Association National College; Allostatic Load; Student Affairs Professionals; Chronic Health Challenges; Stereotype Inoculation Model
• ISBN: 9781620366042; 1620366053; 9781620366059; 1620366045
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443179-17

Student affairs professionals and classroom instructors can apply attitudes and strategies at an individual level to improve bandwidth, but the institution as a whole can address structural issues to maximize identity safety cues and minimize identity threat. Institutions could work intentionally to hire racial/ethnic non-majority faculty at least in the same proportions as the student population, with a goal of creating a critical mass that would serve to support the retention of both the faculty and the students. In addition, institutions should be aware of other areas where critical mass-or the lack of it-could be communicating identity threat to students and potential students. For students coming to college from poor and near-poor families, finances are a constant pressure. With power comes the ability to affect frames of reference, style, rules and priorities. With a shift in power, issues that were unseen by whites for years and obvious to people of color emerge quickly as actionable items.