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Download full textKayla Diamond – Online Submission, 2025
Native American students face significant challenges in higher education, including lower enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates compared to other ethnic groups. Many of these students are first-generation and non-traditional learners, often balancing work and family responsibilities while navigating systemic barriers rooted in historical…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Education, Higher Education
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Direct linkTanzina Ahmed; Jacob Shane; Caitlin Chu; Arielle Edwards; Joseph Verdino; David Caicedo; Rositsa T. Ilieva; Karen Jiang; Daniel Brusche; Ho Yan Wong; Anita Yan; Liam Shay; Charmaine Aleong – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined how students' food insecurity related to their demographic information, academic experiences, use of food programs, and reflections on food during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: 246 NYC undergraduates during the first 9 months of the pandemic. Methods: Students reported on food insecurity (e.g., USDA's 10-item AFSSM),…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Hunger, COVID-19, Pandemics
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
Esteban M. Aucejo; Jacob French; Paola Ugalde Araya; Basit Zafar – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
Information frictions significantly shape students' academic trajectories, but their differential impact across student backgrounds remains understudied. Using a novel panel survey capturing incoming students' subjective expectations and anonymized transcript data from Arizona State University, we first show that parental education strongly…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Predictor Variables, Success, Parent Background
Gerardo F. Barrio Jr. – Online Submission, 2025
This action research study investigated the academic integration and persistence of first-generation, second-year Latino students in a community college in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. The study employed a mixed-methods approach to investigate persistence and integration among first-generation Latinos. Using Tinto's theory of persistence, the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Suburban Schools
Leo, Aaron – Community College Review, 2021
Objective: This article explores the experiences of 32 first-generation immigrant and refugee students as they transition into and out of community college. The challenges students face and the resources on which they draw in their educational pursuits are viewed through Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital. Method: This project utilizes an…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Immigrants, Refugees, Community Colleges
Moreno, Rosean – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2021
This study looked at the experiences of six participants and their feelings of guilt. The findings revealed that guilt was caused when the participants put their needs before the needs of their family and attended college. Institutions of higher education may not know or understand the importance family plays for these students and may not foster…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Family Relationship
Schuyler, Sophie W.; Childs, Jonique R.; Poynton, Timothy A. – Journal of College Access, 2021
Nearly 1 in 3 college students (30%) are first-generation students of color (FGSOC), possessing the intersectional identity of being both a first-generation college student and a racial minority. FGSOC face increased psychological and social difficulties in college when compared to students in other groups, resulting from cultural differences,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students, Student Adjustment, Mental Health
Chin Goosby, Keisha – Journal of College Access, 2021
This article addresses the need to better understand impactful mentoring models for undocumented immigrant students (UIS). Based on interviews of 18 mentors of UIS who were college graduates, findings include diverse effective mentoring models, specific mentoring styles and strategies, how mentors identified and leveraged the community cultural…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undocumented Immigrants, College Graduates, Elementary Secondary Education
Delahunty, Janine; O'Shea, Sarah – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This article applies the framework of possible selves to the motivation and persistence behaviours of one group of university students. We draw on possible selves to consider how particular goal-focused actions and life experiences may significantly shape movements towards imagined futures. Utilising a narrative approach from longitudinal data,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Maturity (Individuals), Adults, Females
Platt, Carrie Anne; Bartels, Melissa; Eberling, Kallie; Gustafson, Erik; Lindmark, Peter G.; Sinton, Jena – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2021
Advisors and instructors can play important roles in leveling the playing field for first-generation college students, who often have limited support networks compared to their continuing-generation peers. However, out-of-class communication with these resources remains infrequent. In this study, we investigate the factors that deter students from…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Information Seeking, Academic Advising
Renbarger, Rachel L.; Morgan, Grant B.; Prochnow, Tyler – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2021
Due to structural educational inequity, students who are first-generation, low-income, and certain students of color have lower graduate degree attainment compared to their peers. One national program, the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, serves students from these groups to increase the number of students from these…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Graduate Study, Disproportionate Representation
Anita Moore-Bohannon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if students' participation in the ALP co-requisite developmental English program relates to the likelihood of passing gateway college-level English. Data was collected to allow for analysis of gateway college-level English passing probability for all students who participated in gateway…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Remedial Instruction, Grading, Probability
Camila Nardozzi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined the experiences of first-generation college students at an Ivy League institution in their pursuit of international education. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight first-generation college students at an Ivy League university in New England. Narrative Inquiry was the methodology used to analyze the transcripts…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, International Education, Private Colleges, Cultural Capital
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
