Student Life, Education 

This volume is about a student group whose particular needs are notwell understood: students without legal residency status, betterknown as undocumented students. Student affairs professionals mayknow that undocumented students are on campus, but they often knowlittle about them. For many of these students, this is by design:they choose to exist in the campus shadows to avoid sharing theirsecret and jeopardizing their status. Their fear of beingdiscovered is understandable: they believe that they could bedeported if their residency status were disclosed. This volume provides a broad overview of the factors thatcontribute to the experiences of undocumented students. It examinesthe applicable federal and state laws and policies, the students'precollege experiences, their academic and socioemotionalexperiences on campus, and their lack of professional employmentopportunities after college. However, when it comes tounderstanding the experiences of undocumented students, the wholeis greater than sum of its parts. Understanding thesestudents-their experiences and their needs-requires more thansimply understanding the individual components of their social,cultural, and legal environment. This volume also contains theactual stories of undocumented students, graphically illustratingthe cumulative effect their legal status has on their day-to-daylives.This is the 130th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher educationquarterly report series New Directions for StudentServices. An indispensable resource for vice presidents ofstudent affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and otherstudent services professionals, New Directions for Student Servicesoffers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their totaldevelopment: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual. - from Amzon