Why Students Aren't Filling Out the FAFSA
Low-income and first-generation students find it difficult to fill it out, and they fill it out themselves, EAB survey finds.
Inside Higher Ed / April 06, 2021
Ardoin / / December 2017
Ardoin's text explores how a working class, rural environment influences students’ opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines perceptions of higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and jargon are shared and strategies for offering students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.
