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Dedicated first-generation research allows for evidence-based decision-making that is critical to student success. This section highlights both foundational research and recent scholarship that informs understanding of the student experience, institutional approaches to programming, and identification of supports and barriers for first-generation students. Timely updates on public policy discussions shaping first-generation student success are also provided. In addition to the filters below, please utilize the “search” bar in the top, right corner to search by keyword, author name, or publication title.

 

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Decoding the Academy: A Roadmap for First-generation College Students Through Graduate Education
FEATURE | Aug 26, 2024

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National Data Fact Sheets on First-generation College Students and Graduates
FEATURE | September 2024

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First-generation Students in Community and Technical Colleges
FEATURE | November 2020

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First-generation Student Success: A Landscape Analysis
FEATURE | October 2018

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Visibility & support for first generation college graduates in medicine

In this Perspective, the authors define the First Gen identity and review some of the salient First Gen literature as it applies to the medical school experience.

Medical Education Online / January 2022
Finding Affinity Between Faculty Members and College Students

This study will examine 756 faculty biographies published on institutional (.edu) websites to explore what identities faculty members disclose, potentially allowing students to find or see affinity with that faculty member.

The Journal of Faculty Development / January 2022
Do College Students Understand the Price of COVID-19 Vaccinations?

This study surveyed 1,183 college students to explore these students’ knowledge of vaccine costs and whether differences exist between groups.

Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies / December 2021
Integrated Theoretical Frameworks: Understanding College-Going Culture

This article explores the effectiveness of an integrated framework approach in the research of college-going culture for first-generation college students.

Open Access Library Journal / December 2021
An Exploration of First-Gen Students’ Use of Music

This research is the first to investigate how and why first-generation college students use music.

Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice / December 2021
How Selective College Admissions Offices Recruit LIFGWC Students

This study seeks to understand how campus admissions approaches to recruitment may also contribute to why so few lower-income, first-generation, and/or working-class students (LIFGWC students) attend selective colleges.

Journal of Working-Class Studies / December 2021
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An Information Typology of How First-Gen Students Access Resources

In this paper, authors utilize focus group data of 62 diverse FGCS to create a typology of how students utilize information to succeed in college.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, & Practice / December 2021
Utilizing Servant Leadership to Increase First Gen Persistence

This case study highlights the informal leadership role advisors have in working with students and the ethical dilemmas they face in balancing institutional pressure and time demands with the advising needs of their students.

Hartley & Hayes / December 2021
First-generation Students Voice Schooling Inequalities Amid COVID-19

The authors surveyed FGCS across five U.S. universities to assess the ways in which the pandemic exacerbated already existing inequalities students faced in their persistence to graduate from college.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, & Practice / December 2021
Effects of Research-Related Activities on Graduation at an HSI

This paper reports on the results of a study of 6,654 unique students on the type of research-related activities they participated in while at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, & Practice / December 2021
Mental health among students engaging in research during COVID-19

This study examined the mental health of undergraduate researchers (UGRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal of American College Health / December 2021
First-gen graduates’ medical school application, acceptance, and matriculation

The authors examined the role of first-generation college-graduate status on U.S. medical school application, acceptance, and matriculation.

Medical Education Online / December 2021
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Perspective From a First-Gen Medical Student on the Pre-med Pipeline

Newman Kwame Boakye-Ansa discusses barriers to medical school participation and offers actionable steps to increase access for first-generation students.

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal / December 2021
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Attracting and retaining Latina women in a biology program

This study tracked students' science identity over the first year in the S-4 program to learn about the types of support that contributed to a science identity and persistence.

Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research / December 2021
Career Expectations and Choice Among Hispanic First-Gen Students

This study examines how the association of career outcome expectations and STEM career interest differs for hispanic first-generation college students.

Journal of First-generation Student Success / December 2021
An Online Intervention Highlighting First-Gen Faculty Benefits Students

The current studies investigate whether highlighting first-generation faculty increases first-generation students’ help-seeking intentions and belonging.

Journal of First-generation Student Success / December 2021
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First-gen College Graduates’ Attributions for Success

This article explores the reasons first-generation college graduates offered for their noteworthy and disparate level of educational attainment.

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics / December 2021
Professional course degree completion: does family background matter?

This paper investigates social differences in student completion rates in short professional programmes, such as nursing and social work.

Journal of Further and Higher Education / December 2021