Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound first-generation linguistic minority immigrants in the K-12 pipeline, this ground-breaking volume showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, and persistence in college.

Preface 1. Linguistic Minority Immigrants Go to College: Introduction Yasuko Kanno and Linda Harklau I. College Preparation In High School 2. High School ESL Placement: Practice, Policy, and Effects on Achievement Rebecca M. Callahan and Dara R. Shifrer 3. Linguistic Minority Students' Opportunities to Learn High School Mathematics Eduardo Mosqueda 4. Paving the way to college: An analysis of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program serving immigrant students in California Anysia P. Mayer 5. How Paola Made It to College: A Linguistic Minority Student's Unlikely Success Story Linda Harklau and Shelly McClanahan II. Access To College 6. Top 10% Linguistically Diverse Students' Access and Success at Texas Public Universities Cristóbal Rodríguez 7. Who are Linguistic Minority Students in Higher Education?: An Analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Study 2004Anne-Marie Nuñez and P. Johnelle Sparks 8. Immigrant English Learners' Transitions to University: Student Challenges and Institutional Policies Yasuko Kanno and Sarah Arva Grosik 9. A Linguistic Minority Student's Discursive Framing of Agency and Structure Manka M. Varghese III. College Experiences And Persistence 10. Navigating "Open Access" Community Colleges: Matriculation Policies and Practices for U.S.-Educated Language Minority Students George C. Bunch and Ann K. Endris 11. Retention of English Learner Students at a Community College Cate Almon 12. Contextualizing the Path to Academic Success: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Gaining Voice and Agency in Higher Education Melissa Holmes, Cristina Fanning, Amanda Morales, Pedro Espinoza, and Socorro Herrera 13. Benefits and Costs of Exercising Agency: A Case Study of an English Learner Navigating a Four-Year University Ronald Fuentes 14. Citizens vs. Aliens: How Institutional Policies Construct Linguistic Minority Students Shawna Shapiro About the Contributors