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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Who Is This Book For?
  8. Why “Bridges”?
  9. For Students: Some Important Definitions
  10. For Instructors: Some Important Considerations
  11. Getting In
    1. 1. Accreditation and Types of Institutions
    2. 2. International United States College Campuses
    3. 3. Study Abroad in the United States
    4. 4. College Fairs
    5. 5. Outreach Services
    6. 6. Community Serving Colleges and Universities
      1. American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities
      2. Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
      3. First-Generation Forward Institutions
      4. Hispanic-Serving Institutions
      5. Historically Black Colleges and Universities
      6. Online Institutions
      7. Veteran-Serving Institutions
      8. Women’s Colleges and Universities
    7. 7. College Rankings
    8. 8. Campus Visits
    9. 9. College Websites and Other Internet Resources
    10. 10. Applications
      1. Undergraduate School
      2. Graduate School
  12. Getting Through
    1. 11. Common Challenges
      1. General Problem Solving
      2. Money
      3. Warning About Predatory Loans
      4. Getting Involved
      5. Time Management
      6. Dormmates/Roommates
      7. So Many Questions–Whom to Ask?
      8. Goal Setting
    2. 12. Academic Advising
    3. 13. Credentials, Majors, and Requirements
    4. 14. Instructors and Professors
      1. Job Titles and Pronouns
      2. Office Hours
      3. Letters of Recommendation
    5. 15. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
    6. 16. Rights and Responsibilities
    7. 17. More Quotes From the Field
  13. Appendix
    1. 18. Twenty Academic Jargon Words You Might Need to Know
    2. 19. Grammar for Composition Resources and Review
      1. Components of a Sentence
      2. Subjects
      3. Prepositional Phrases
      4. Verbs
      5. Sentence Structure
      6. Collective Nouns
      7. Sentence Combining: Conjunctive Adverbs
      8. Sentence Combining: Subordination
      9. Sentence Combining: Run-on Sentences
      10. Parallelism
      11. Good Paragraphs
      12. Topic Sentences
      13. Supporting Sentences
      14. Concluding Sentences
      15. Transitions
      16. Academic Paragraphs
      17. Thesis Statements
      18. Audience
      19. Introduction Paragraphs
      20. Body Paragraphs
      21. Conclusion Paragraphs
    3. 20. Academic Situations and Scripts
      1. In Emails
      2. In the Classroom
      3. In Office Hours
    4. 21. Pop Culture Index
      1. Best African American Films
      2. Best Asian American Films
      3. Best International Feature Film Winners
      4. Best Hispanic and Latinx American Films
      5. The EGOT List
      6. The Literary List
      7. The Kennedy Center Honor List
      8. The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  14. About the Author

North Broad Press is a joint publishing project between Temple University Press and Temple University Libraries, publishing works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the Temple University community. All North Broad Press titles are peer reviewed and freely available online. More information is available at http://tupress.temple.edu/open-access/north-broad-press

Temple University Press

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

www.tupress.temple.edu

Copyright © 2021 by Shawn M. Higgins

All material in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted. A copy of this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Excerpts from Intercultural Learning: Critical preparation for international student travel by Peter Jones, Debra Miles, and Narayan Gopalkrishnan are used under this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License with permission.

ISBN 9781439919859 (paperback); 9781439919866 (ebook)

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