Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

Bandwidth Recovery explores how students’ cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed in college.

Cia Verschelden was a Special Projects Advisor at the American Association of Colleges & Universities and former Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Malcolm X College - City Colleges of Chicago. Holding an EdD from Harvard University and an MSW from the University of Connecticut, Cia has over 30 years of student affairs, faculty, and administration experience at both two- and four-year public institutions.