Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students at the University of Washington as they and their allies struggled to transform a university they believed did not value their presence into a space based on meaningfulness, respect, and multiple notions of student success.

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. What Does It Mean to Transform Schooling?  1
1. The Students, The School, The Ocean: Tracking Students' Lives on Campus  23
2. Pipe: Collective Mentorship as a Politics of Partnership  65
3. Those Who Left  107
4. Schooling Outside and Inside  149
Conclusion. Transformative Schooling Against Boundaries  191
Notes  203
Bibliography  277
Index  245