What is Academic Resilience

This chapter will illustrate the intertwined concepts of cultural and language proficiency, acculturation, and resilience among marginalized populations and implications for higher education. When students make the transition to tertiary education, they are met with challenges of how to reconcile or integrate what they know and ways of doing things to different standards, rules, beliefs, and norms of higher education culture. Rather than an all or nothing approach, recognizing that preservation of the native culture may coexist with openness to a new culture may have long-term positive implications for families and their children. Strategies to reduce marginalization and achieve high levels of resilience in higher education for students will be provided for teachers, higher education administration, and other school professionals.