(navigational capital).While the community cultural wealth Sylvia possessed and the additional capital developedthrough her experience with identity-based organizations supported her successful completion ofa computer science bachelor’s degree, she indicated that she was not planning to pursue agraduate degree because she had an obligation to take care of her aging parents in the wake ofher sister’s death. So my parents are elderly. My, well, I don't know if they think they're elderly, but like they're changing now. And my older brothers, they're like 10 and 12 years older than I, so they're kind of like living their own lives. And like I said, one of them has his own family. And so I feel like there's like a responsibility for
things she needed to do to excel. As she states, “When I started my job at AOC, I was nervous about the engineering work. This was my first exposure to such work and I had always believed I wasn’t smart enough to be an engineer due to my difficulty in math and science. However, I faced my fear, participated on every project team to which I was assigned, and eventually learned to read blueprints and plans allowing me to perform the work for which I was hired. Some people even said I couldn’t do it, that I would quit the job because I didn’t have an engineering background. I proved them all wrong.”As this statement indicates, Marjory explains that even though women are so often doubted inengineering, it
this valuable space by supportingproductive and synergetic cross-institutional collaborations between PWIs and MSIs/HBCUs.Not surprisingly, the quality of such PWI-MSI/HBCU collaboration depends on the shared goalsand objectives, as well as mutual respect and egalitarian relationships established among thestakeholders from both institutions. In particular, it is a must to have a solid plan to understand,recognize, and capitalize on each institution’s strengths, not only the intellectual merits but alsothe cultural assets brought by the members of the collaborating MSI/HBCUs. This should be oneof the major criteria against which the quality of multi-institutional collaboration that includesMSI/HBCUs should be evaluated. By doing so, this multi
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