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Direct linkVanessa Castellanos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Latine/x are the second largest ethnic minority group nationwide with the highest rate of undergraduate enrollment (NCES, 2020). While that is true, Latine/x students are also retained at much lower rates in comparison to their White and Asian counterparts (Banks & Dohy, 2019). Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), a model adopted by many…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Background
Download full textPaul Westrick; Jessica Marini; Emily Shaw – College Board, 2025
Previous research has examined undergraduate student performance changes pre- and post-covid, overall and by institutional subgroupings. Standardized test scores tended to decline while high school and undergraduate grades increased. The current study expands upon this research by examining changes across student subgroups of interest, notably by…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Grades (Scholastic), Standardized Tests, Scores
Peer reviewedAlexandra Novakovic; Eva N. Patrikakou – Journal of College Access, 2025
School counselors provide college and career readiness (CCR) counseling and socioemotional support to assist students in planning and pursuing postsecondary education. However, little is known about students' perceptions of the effectiveness of meetings with school counselors during their preparation for postsecondary education and career…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, School Counseling, School Counselors
White, Makita; Canning, Elizabeth A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
First-generation (FG) college students (students for whom neither parent earned a bachelor's degree) are typically less likely to interact with their instructors and communicate with them by email or in person, compared to continuing-generation (CG) students. Qualitative research suggests FG students are less likely to seek help when they need it,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, First Generation College Students, Intervention, Teacher Student Relationship
Julieth Diaz Benitez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Latinas often experience a double bind as they navigate STEM trajectories, a result of multiple layers of marginalization associated with their intersecting identities. Although developing robust science identities is key to the persistence, success, and sense of belonging of minoritized students in STEM (Carlone & Johnson, 2007; McGee, 2020),…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Hispanic American Students
Maile Canlas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation Latinas (FGLs) in higher education have experienced challenges attending predominantly White institutions. Lack of sense of belonging is a strong predictor for isolation, anxiety, and/or depression. In addition to cultural dissonance and racially driven climates, attending predominantly White institutions increase the odds against…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Females, Academic Achievement
Jeanne Batalova; Michael Fix – Migration Policy Institute, 2023
College enrollment trends in the United States are a subject of ongoing concern due to the role higher education plays in shaping the future workforce. Enrollment has gone through periods of growth and decline over the past two decades, reflecting changes in the nation's demographics, economy, and views on the value of a college degree. Total…
Descriptors: College Students, Immigrants, College Enrollment, First Generation College Students
Castaneda, Monica Annette – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Completion rates for first-generation community college students continue to be of concern for higher education leaders. Only one out of five students at community colleges obtain their desired degree in three years or less and first-generation students persist less than non-first-generation students. This qualitative descriptive study explored…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Self Efficacy
Siddique, Faraz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation students, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, have low persistence rates. Research shows that one of the barriers to their low persistence is a need for a student-centered pedagogical approach. Research has shown that if an instructor incorporates a pause technique during a standard lecture,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Lecture Method
Kirton, 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
Busch, Carly A.; Wiesenthal, Nicholas J.; Mohammed, Tasneem F.; Anderson, Shauna; Barstow, Margaret; Custalow, Cydney; Gajewski, Jas; Garcia, Kristin; Gilabert, Cynthia K.; Hughes, Joseph; Jenkins, Aliyah; Johnson, Miajah; Kasper, Cait; Perez, Israel; Robnett, Brieana; Tillett, Kaytlin; Tsefrekas, Lauren; Goodwin, Emma C.; Cooper, Katelyn M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Fear of negative evaluation (FNE), defined as a sense of dread associated with being negatively judged in a social situation, has been identified as the primary factor underlying undergraduate anxiety in active-learning science courses. However, no quantitative studies have examined the extent to which science undergraduates experience FNE and how…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Fear
Tammie Lenease Nadeau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Undergraduate first-generation Black male students enrolled in colleges nationwide are not graduating at rates comparable to their peers. Despite others' increased graduation rates, many undergraduate first-generation Black male students struggle to graduate. In the past decade, increasing research has focused on why first-generation Black male…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, African American Students, Males
Stephanie M. Breen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Efforts to broaden participation and access in graduate education have proliferated in recent decades, with federally funded interventions established to increase the number of historically marginalized students in graduate education (Council of Graduate Schools, 2008). The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, a notable…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, College Choice, High Achievement, Low Income Students
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
