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Direct linkKatie Koo; Krishna Bista; Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This article discusses various ways for student affairs professionals, faculty, educators, and policymakers to contribute to the personal, academic, and professional development of international graduate students in the U.S. higher education within their functional areas and their expertise. By highlighting the culturally sensitive support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Woodard, Bobby R.; Fatzinger, Jim B. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2018
The collegiate experience provides opportunities for learners to engage with others in an environment that prepares graduates for twenty-first century challenges. This chapter offers reasons why students should engage with other students by doing, feeling, and thinking, and posits that engagement on campus not only serves students individually and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Peer Relationship, Student Participation
Harvey, Vickie L.; Housel, Teresa Heinz – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Academic personnel who were first-generation college students (FGS) are uniquely positioned to consider the questions these students often have about the college experience. Academia needs first-generation and working-class voices to diversify an academic culture that is often socially stratified. As more FGS enroll in colleges and universities,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Faculty, Social Stratification, Teacher Student Relationship
Lowery-Hart, Russell; Pacheco, George, Jr. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
As colleges and universities face pressure to expand enrollments and provide access to diverse students, they find it difficult to recruit and retain first-generation college students (FGS). First-generation college students are significantly less likely to graduate due to lack of family support, financial strains, poor academic preparation, and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Family Characteristics
Brost, Jennifer; Payne, Kelly – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Academic dismissal resulting from poor scholastic achievement is an unfortunate reality at American universities, and one that involves students, faculty, and academic advisers. This chapter analyzes learning outcomes of the academic dismissal process for first-generation college students (FGS) resulting from a year-long study conducted at a…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Liberal Arts
Coffman, Stephen – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Drawing on interviews with first-generation college students (FGS), the author argues that the students' culture affects college attendance and success. Although FGS often have a vocational perspective to college, the author found that they seek meaningful work with good pay. The author also suggests that good decision making, academic…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Social Class, Decision Making, Student Characteristics
