Diversity and Inclusion
Center for First-generation Student Success
- Center for First-generation Student SuccessThe Center is a source of evidence-based practices, professional development, and knowledge creation for the higher education community to advance the success of first-generation students.
- First-generation Student Success: A Landscape Analysis of Programs and Services at Four-year Institutions.This 2018 report, lead by the Center for First-generation Student Succes, details how institutions are serving first-generation students, the challenges they encounter in providing support, and how first-generation students perceive their institutional experience.
Books
The First-Generation Student Experience by
ISBN: 9781579223700More 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 PublicationFirst-Generation College Students by
ISBN: 9780470474440As more and more of the college-going population is made up of those who are the first in their families to attend college, institutions need to find ways to help these students succeed if they expect to maintain enrollments. This groundbreaking resource explores the challenges and barriers to first-generation students and offers a wealth of helpful recommendations for helping these students succeed in their academic careers. This book helps leaders in academic and student affairs to understand these special challenges and how best to meet them.
Articles
- The Activities, Roles, and Relationships of Successful First-Generation College StudentsDemetriou, Cynthia; Meece, Judith; Eaker-Rich, Deborah; Powell, Candice. Journal of College Student Development; Baltimore Vol. 58, Iss. 1, (Jan 2017): 19-36.
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