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

Rick Bonus is Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, coeditor of The “Other” Students: Filipino Americans, Education, and Power, and author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space.