Toby S. Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Integrative Studies at George Mason University.

This volume explores the critical role of family and community in the life and experiences of college students, showing how the the family experience may deepen higher education practice and analyzing the ways in which family and community are included, valued, or devalued in higher education.

Introduction: Family First Toby S. Jenkins Section I: Family 1. It's a Family Affair: The Journey to College Billy Brown and Breanna Brown 2. Love Lessons from "The Hood" Ashley Hazelwood 3. Home Training: Family, Struggle, Resilience, and Everything in Between Anthony R. Keith, Jr. 4. Speaking Those Things That Be Not As Though They Are: The Role of Faith in Caregivers' Educational Hopes for Their Differently-Abled Son Michael and LaChan V. Hannon Section II: Mothers 5. Extending a Hand: Grateful My Grandmother Raised Me Ce Garrison 6. Mama Says: Activist, Pedagogue, and Feminist? Crystal L. Endsley with Clara Endsley 7. A Generation Makes a Difference: A Mother and Daughter Reflect on Life and College Joan Marie Giampa and Giovanna Bargh Fini 8. Mother May I? A Daughter of a Low-Income, First-Generation, Single Parent Household Goes to College Sinitra N. Johnson Section III: Fathers 9. Gifts from My Father Sondra Frank 10. Piece by Piece: Laying Down the Road Map to Purpose and Agency Edward J. Smith 11. Unconventional Genius: Father Knows Best Toby S. Jenkins Section IV: Community 12. Third Culture Students: Accounting for Family, Distance, and Separation of American-Born and Internationally-Raised U.S. College Students Aracelie L. Castro 13. Feminist Ujamaa: Transnational Feminist Pedagogies, Community, and Family in East Africa Marla L. Jaksch 14. Community and Family as Critical Sites for Transformative Education: Implications for Practice Toby S. Jenkins