Black Issues in Higher Education, September 30th, 1999
Of the myriad challenges facing Native American college students, retention appears to be the most daunting ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Leaving reservation for college wasn't too hard for Rozanna Benaly, a Utah teen who already had lived away from home at the Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington. But it's different this time. School is five hours farther away, there are more than 23,700 students on her urban campus and Benaly worries she won't fit in. For hundreds of American Indian teenagers, going away to college can be a frightening experience -- scarier than usual for rural teens leaving high...
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