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Acknowledgments Gathering the data and completing this book would not have been possible without the cooperation of an informal network of people at many institutions around the country. I especially wish to extend my appreciation to all the deans and staff members at graduate schools who helped immeasurably in locating participants, scheduling, and providing locations for the interviews. I also wish to thank Christine O’Brien at the Ford Fellowships for Minorities Program; Hector Garza, formerly vice president of minority issues at the American Council on Education (ACE); Eileen O’Brien, who provided advice and data from her research on Latinos in higher education for ACE; Amalia Duarte, formerly an editor of Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, and Elizabeth Veatch, formerly of the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Fellowships and Grants, for helping to identify potential interviewees. Special recognition goes to my dear friend and colleague Alicia González, former director of the Office of College and University Relations at the Smithsonian Institution , for helping me to identify participants and pilot the original question set for the study. Many on the staff of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) gave their time and suggestions along the way, especially for my preliminary report for CGS. I thank Peter D. Syverson for help with data questions, Nancy A. Gaffney for constant feedback and final editing, and my colleague Anne Pruitt for listening, encouraging, and offering advice. Special acknowledgment goes to Philomena Paul for the many hours of transcribing interview tapes for both the 1994–1995 and 1996–1997 segments of the Latino study and for offering her valuable insights about the interviews. I would also like to thank the many readers who gave their time and thoughts for the original CGS report. Among them were students, faculty, staff, colleagues, friends, and family: Akbar Ally, Ivan Pagán, Cathy Middlecamp, Clifton Conrad, Eligio Padilla, Sarita Brown, Joe Corry, King Alexander, and Consuelo López-Springfield. A great number of new friends and colleagues, even acquaintances, contributed in a variety of ways to the final manuscript. I wish to thank Luis Piñero, Michael Olneck, Maury Cotter, Greg Vincent, Hardin Coleman , Bob “Don Plátano” Skloot, Herb Lewis, Edna Szymanski, Mark Curchack, John P. Bean, and Eden Inoway for listening, commenting, and offering feedback on significant portions of the work. I also wish to thank Brian Foster, Armando Arias, and Carlos Rodriguez who reviewed the original manuscript and offered their input. I am deeply indebted to several special friends who helped me reshape the book: Sheila Spear, who graciously suffered reading through an overly long draft and who skillfully prodded me with her coaching and editing; Jeanne Connors, who was exceedingly helpful in establishing editing priorities; and John Center, who not only helped tweak various sections but provided invaluable help in formatting the drafts. I especially want to thank Akbar Ally, not only for reading some of the text but also for really listening and being a good friend when I needed it the most. I want to thank Adam Gamoran and the gang at the sociology of education brown bag lunches for allowing me to join the group and helping me try out ideas. I am grateful to Jeff Iseminger, a fellow anthropologist, for allowing me to lift his article nearly word for word from Wisconsin Week (December 10, 1997; reprinted with permission from Wisconsin Week, University of Wisconsin–Madison). Gene Rice, at the American Association for Higher Education, in many respects set the tone for the book and provided essential information and feedback about the new American scholar. I could not have completed the work on Latinas and gender issues without the guidance and direct participation of Alberta Gloria, Nancy Gaffney, Tanya Thresher, Betsy Drain, and Yolanda Garza. A special thanks to Tona Williams from the brown bag gang, who commented on the first report. Some of the most important feedback, however, came from the psychologist Manuel Ramı́rez, my new colleague, who not only read early versions of the introductory chapters but also cofounded and developed the field of bicognition, one of the foundations for this book. I wish to thank other new colleagues, including Miguel Ceballos and Al Cohen, who helped enormously by guiding me through the unfamiliar territory of quantitative research and psychometric testing and analysis. I also wish to recognize a relatively new colleague, Mercedes de Uriarte, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, who not...

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