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ERIC Number: EJ1475288
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-5627
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1758
Available Date: 2024-12-10
"We Will Come to You": Serving Newcomer Immigrants and English Learners at an AANAPISI Community College
Federick J. Ngo1; Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza2; David E. Lee3; Robert T. Teranishi4
Innovative Higher Education, v50 n3 p893-918 2025
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) serve the breadth and diversity of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) students by developing culturally engaging programs, services, and interventions. This case study focuses on how one public 2-year AANAPISI enacted programs to serve recent immigrants in an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program, including a novel embedded counseling intervention where counselors visited the same ESOL classrooms several times throughout the semester. We draw upon classroom documentation, student survey data, and interviews with students, faculty, and counselors to understand the challenges reported by students in ESOL programs and to explore how the institution marshaled resources and targeted supports to specifically serve newcomer immigrants and English learner students. ESOL students faced academic and linguistic insecurities, had gaps in college knowledge, and expressed a lack of connectedness to campus. Embedded counseling was a structure that served these students by directly responding to student needs and cultivating relationships between students and key campus staff, thereby fulfilling both the AANAPISI and community college missions of the institution.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA; 2California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA; 3Laney College, Oakland, USA; 4University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA