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Direct linkKirton, Alicia Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the challenges facing FGCSs and seeks to provide strategies, opportunities, and novel and actionable insights for increasing retention and graduation rates among FGCSs in community colleges during and post the COVID-19 pandemic period. The study further identifies whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic magnified these…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, First Generation College Students, Barriers
Mary Elizabeth Sewell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Psychological capital (PsyCap) is a higher-order construct comprised of four psychological resources: hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO), and has been linked to academic achievement and engagement (Hazan Liran & Miller, 2019; Luthans, et al., 2012). Interventions designed to build PsyCap may be particularly helpful for…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Psychological Patterns, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits
Viola J. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While the value of mentoring has long been presumed in the literature as well as in practices, little is known about the success of formal, and informal mentoring practices (Crisp, 2010; Crisp & Cruz, 2009; & Ward & Ball, 2016). In addition, there is a lack of research on community college student mentoring in higher education…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Transfer Students, Colleges, Mentors
Peer reviewedBarragan, Cassandra; Ryckman, Lyla; Doyle, Wayne – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2022
Effective veteran-student programs that include advising help to bridge military culture with campus culture. These programs assist with military-to-campus transitions and achieving veteran-student academic success. Persistent outreach is an advising strategy that includes proactive and intentional engagement that anticipates student concerns. The…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Veterans, Outreach Programs
Smith, Jonathan; Howell, Jessica; Hurwitz, Michael – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
We estimate the impact of one of the largest college-to-student outreach efforts in the nation, the College Board's Student Search Service. In an oversubscribed "order," colleges receive contact information of a randomly chosen subset of PSAT and SAT exam takers who opt into the service and meet colleges' search criteria from a larger…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Choice, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Download full textSimon, Nicolas P.; Hornung, Rick; Dugan, Kimberly B. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2022
Social and cultural capital are critical components of success among college students. In this paper, we examine the creation, accumulation, and distribution of social and cultural capital by and among underserved college students who participated in a summer bridge program at one regional public state university. Using qualitative data from…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Disadvantaged Youth
Tong Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the dynamics of undergraduate socialization within a STEM Intervention Program (SIP), specifically the STEM Scholars Program (SSP), with a particular emphasis on comparing the experiences of first-generation and continuing-generation college students. The study employs a longitudinal design and uses random intercept…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Socialization, STEM Education, Intervention
Virginia Clinton-Lisell; Alison E. Kelly – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
The use of online homework systems that require the purchase of an access code has become widespread. The purpose of this study is to examine student experiences with and perceptions of online homework systems with access codes. Postsecondary students (N = 966) completed a survey about the financial costs, perceptions of quality, engagement with,…
Descriptors: Homework, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Experience
Six-Year College Graduation Status for High School Students Participating in an Upward Bound Program
Raymond Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of high school academic indicators and participation in the federally funded Upward Bound program on college graduation rates for first-generation, low-income students. Specifically the extent to which participation in the federally funded TRIO Upward Bound program and related factors--high school GPA, course rigor,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, High School Students, Grade Point Average
Dean Rockwell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
First-generation college students may experience a mismatch between their cultural backgrounds, which tend to emphasize interdependent cultural norms (i.e., group achievements, connection with others, and taking actions that foster fitting in) and universities, which tend to emphasize independent cultural norms (i.e. individual achievements,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Anxiety, Intervention, Cultural Differences
Bradley R. Curs; Casandra E. Harper; Sangmin Park – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This quasi-experimental study examined the effectiveness of a one-time emergency financial relief program among Pell Grant eligible undergraduate students in Spring 2015 pursuing their first bachelor's degree across academic and financial outcomes. The academic outcomes included retention to the next semester, degree completion, attempted credit…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Financial Aid, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Vanessa Quiroga – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Latino population is the fastest-growing community in the United States yet falls behind in the percentage of students who successfully graduate from college compared to other cultural groups. While trends of Latino students applying to college are on the rise, many cannot successfully obtain a degree due to detrimental barriers. These…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Outcomes of Education, Academic Persistence
Jennifer Reid; Mahshid Ahmadian; D. Jennings; Anathea Abad Pepperl; Amy Adkins; Kristina C. Anthony; Volkan Aytar; Mita Basu; Kai Bosworth; Andrew S. Bristow; LaMont Cannon; Cara Cario; Ellen Carpenter; Eli Coston; Judith Crenshaw; Jody L. Davis; Rebecca Durfee; Punit Gandhi; Zachary N. Ghahramani; Rebecca Gibson; Joseph Hamelman; Amanda Harris; Ching-Yu Huang; Catherine Hulsof; Gaston I. Jofre; Nick J. Kuklinski; Bernard Means; Jonathan Moore; Katherine Saunders Nash; Jason Newton; Heather Nunnally; Jennifer R. Olson; Matthew Pawlowicz; Jorge Piocuda; Derek C. Prosser; Alexandra Reckendorf; Angela Reynolds; Suzanne Robertson; Sylvia S. Rozario; Suzanne Ruder; Andrew Sackman; Mark Schwitzerlett; Matthew Scott; Dewey Taylor; Katharine Moore Tibbetts; Mayda Topoushian; Emily Watkinson; Samanthi Wickramarachchi; Robert Wieman; Nicholas Wong; Maria Carolina Yaber; Wenheng Zhang; Sarah E. Golding; Allison A. Johnson – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
A faculty development initiative was implemented at a large urban university in the South to address the historically high rates of students receiving low grades and withdrawing from STEM courses, particularly affecting first-generation students, transfer students from community colleges and minoritized populations. The program's core aim was to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, STEM Education, At Risk Students
Vonda M. Easterling – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the first-year experiences of 10 first-generation college students who participated in university-established learning communities at a small private Historically Black College. Further, this study was conducted to discover what participants felt was the role of the learning community…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, First Generation College Students, Success, Small Colleges
Erica J. Zheng; Elizabeth Oakes; Julie Roden – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
The number of undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in science and technology-related courses has increased over the past 20 years, but these students' persistence in STEM majors until graduation still lags behind the overall college population. Interventions like exposure to independent research, instruction using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students
