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First Generation Student Experience

Jeff Davis
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CIRP Freshman Survey
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College Age Americans
College Attendance
college retention strategies
College Student Identity
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Ethnic Minority Status
Firstgeneration College Students
Firstgeneration Students
Graduation Rate
Imposter Phenomenon
Low Income Status
Low Income Students
Maria's Parents
McNair Scholar
Non-first Generation Peers
Non-first Generation Students
Phillip's Narrative
Postsecondary Education
Postsecondary Education System
Postsecondary Institutions
psychosocial adjustment higher education
retention
SSU
Student Affairs Professionals
student persistence research
Student Self-disclosure
student success
Summer Bridge
supporting nontraditional college students

Product details

  • ISBN 9781579223700
  • Weight: 312g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2010
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Co-published with More first-generation students are attending college than ever before, and policy makers agree that increasing their participation in higher education is a matter of priority. Despite this, there is no agreed definition about the term, few institutions can quantify how many first-generation students are enrolled, or mistakenly conflate them with low-income students, and many important dimensions to the first-generation student experience remain poorly documented. Few institutions have in place a clear, well-articulated practice for assisting first-generation students to succeed. Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institution’s overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability. It is clearly in every institution’s self-interest to ensure its first-generation students succeed, to identify and count them, and understand how to support them. This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.At the heart of the book are 14 first-person narratives – by first-generation students spanning freshman to graduate years – that help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them. This book is intended for everyone who serves these students – faculty, academic advisors, counselors, student affairs professionals, admissions officers, and administrators – and offers a set of best practices for how two- and four-year institutions can improve the success of their first-generation student populations.An ACPA Publication
About Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis is an English professor, academic counselor, and administrator at Sonoma State University in California. He became interested in the plight of first-generation college students when he was exposed to the work being done with nontraditional students on the Sonoma State campus through federal TRIO grant projects, which led to his becoming Director of a TRIO Student Support Service project and a TRIO McNair Scholars project. He is currently involved in designing an institute for the study of the first-generation student experience to be housed at Sonoma State.

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