First Generation College Students
Bridging the Support Gap for First Generation College Students with Community Mentor Programs
... three first generation college students and one community mentor program as an example of the entire body of community mentor programs for the sample minimally addressed the ...of first ...
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Understanding How Engineering Identity and Belongingness Predict Grit for First-Generation College Students
... First-generation college students face numerous unique challenges within higher education that offer particular opportunities for research and interventions to improve their enrollment and ...
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First-Generation College Students Identifying as Future Engineers
... selves, first-generation college students can be viewed as “active producers of their own development” (Markus & Nurius, 1986, ...only students’ current perceptions of themselves in ...
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A Forgotten Demographic: Low-Income First-Generation College Students
... low-income, first-generation students receive only slightly more financial aid than their peers despite having greater financial need” (Improving Access and Success for First-Generation ...
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The Purpose of a College Education: Getting a Job: Narrations of First-Generation College Students
... class, first- generation college students, and ...entering college. Increasing numbers of first-generation college students hope to use their college ...
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How scholarship programs facilitate first-generation college students’ involvement
... My interest in first-generation college students is highly personal. When I was seven years old, my family immigrated to the United States from our home country of Colombia. The lack of ...
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An Examination of Summer Bridge Programs for First-Generation College Students
... potential college-bound students entering their ninth and tenth grade year of high school, rather than their first year of ...that first-generation college students need” ...
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How home and school factors influenced college freshmen and sophomores to become first-generation college students
... attend college is often determined by the education of family ...the college-bound students, the college expectation originated in the educational attainment of parents, older siblings, or ...
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Stretching the Circle: First-Generation College Students Navigate Their Educational Journey
... for first-generation ...on students with college-educated parents as compared to first-generation college ...students. First-generation college ...
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First-Generation College Students: Sense of Belonging on Campus
... capital. Students coming into college without a role model or clear understanding of what a college campus is like means that they will be turning to the programming offered to meet their ...these ...
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Parental Involvement And Academic Outcomes Among First Generation College Students
... First generation college students experience less family support when attending college compared to continuing generation students (Aspelmeier et ...during college, ...
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“My Training Wheels are Off:” How First Generation College Students Made Meaning of the Influence of their College Access and Support Programs
... the College Board charged students ...for students to send their scores to four colleges; additional score reports cost ...place, students relied on their guidance counselors’ knowledge for ...
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How Persevering Latina/o First-Generation College Students Navigate Their College Experience: Keeping Who They Are While Learning and Persisting in the Culture of College
... minority students must feel part of a larger community, belonging to a welcoming college culture; it suggests that colleges should consider ways to incorporate or celebrate students’ ...the ...
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Giving Primacy to the Voice of Parents: A Qualitative Study of the Involvement of Parents of First-Generation College Students
... of first- generation college students pushed students through college by way of their support, while parents of continuing generation college students pulled ...
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Concurrent and Dual Credit: The Bridge to Postsecondary Education for First-Generation College Students
... A student’s persistence in education after one year is a measure of full-time status of a student in the fall of second year. A student who persisted was assigned a score 1 and 0 otherwise. A logistic regression was ...
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First-Generation College Students
... account, first-generation students still tended to be enrolled in institutions that, on average, were more than a quarter of a standard deviation less academically selective than the institutions at- ...
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LIVING LEARNING PROGRAMS AND FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSITION TO COLLEGE w
... study. First, the first-generation sample for this investigation does not generalize to the majority of first-generation college students in American higher educa- ...
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Making Sure They Make It! Best Practices for Ensuring the Academic Success of First-Generation College Students
... prepare students for careers after college by offering workshops on resume development, job interview techniques, business writing, and workplace ...25,000 students. DePaul’s Internship Plu$ Program ...
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Straight. Source. What Works. from. the. for First-Generation College Students
... life. Students who enrolled in the college where their pre-col- lege program was located said that, among other things, they knew where buildings, offices, and classes were lo- cated on campus; they knew ...
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Barriers to graduation: an examination of first-generation college students
... a college education because she wanted to be a lawyer and a college degree was necessary in order to practice ...to college, but Mandi believed that was because he was competitive and did not want ...
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