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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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Expanding Goal Aspiration for Low-Income, First-Gen, Latino Males

This personal reflection highlights how cross divisional collaborations in student affairs and academic affairs led to the creation of formal and informal mentoring relationships for Latino male students involved in a program for first-generation, low-income college students.

Journal of First-generation Student Success / November 2021
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Food Insecurity Risk among Appalachian First-Gen Students

This study examines food insecurity and associated risk factors among first- and continuing-generation college students attending an Appalachian university in the Fall of 2019.

Journal of Appalachian Studies / November 2021
Enhancing Counseling Center Clinicians’ Work With First-Gen Students

This qualitative study examined the experiences of college counseling center clinicians in working with FGCS.

Journal of First-generation Student Success / November 2021
Interns-to-Scholars: First-Generation Success Beyond the Classroom

This exchange will allow others to consider both the importance of programs like I2S and to specifically understand the significance of collaborative learning outside the classroom.

Journal of First-generation Student Success / November 2021
Identities, Intersections, & Family Support Among First-Gen Students

This paper centers the perspectives of first-generation students in a school of social work and their experiences of family support.

Affilia / November 2021
Students in a Large Library
Exploring Undergrad Students’ Information Literacy Development

The purpose of this study is to discover factors that affect the development of undergraduate students’ information literacy through qualitative research that explores first-gen students’ experiences with research assignments.

College & Research Libraries / November 2021
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Contrasting 4 Year Outcomes Associated With Introductory Courses

This paper reports on a study of the 4-year outcomes associated with this potential of Introduction to Management courses to help with students’ transition into university-level studies.

Journal of Management Education / November 2021
Examining a Summer Bridge Program to Support First-gen Black Students

This qualitative study explored the participants' perception of how a program that provided college access and support to low-income students shaped their college experience and their belief in their ability to persist until graduation.

Journal of Access, Retention, & Inclusion in Higher Education / November 2021
Impact of Performance Funding Policy Design on College Access

This study draws on the most comprehensive PBF dataset and incorporates recent econometric advances to examine how features of PBF shape college access and selectivity.

InformEd States / November 2021
Communicative Resilience of First-Gen Students During COVID-19

Findings from a sample of 44 participants reveal seven resilience triggers, four resilience processes, and three relationships between resilience processes and triggers.

Human Communication Research / October 2021
A Multi-Tiered Psychological Resource Model of First-Gen Success

This study presented and tested a model combining various resources, all drawn from the field of positive psychology, to account for first-generation and non-first generation students’ academic attainment in college.

Psychology / October 2021
Differences in First-gen Perceptions in Introductory Biology Classrooms

The authors used quantitative methods to better understand the perceptions of students in an introductory biology course.

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education / October 2021
Marriage & Assortative Mating Among First- & Continuing-Gen Students

This article focuses on the marriage timing and assortative mating patterns of first- and continuing-generation college graduates to test whether college acts as an equalizer for marriage against alternative hypotheses.

Demography / October 2021
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Preparing for a Diverse Ad Industry: First-gen Advantages, Challenges

Using a mixed method approach through two studies, the current investigation suggests that FGCS are more planful, organized, and focused than their non-FGCS counterparts.

Advertising & Society Quarterly / October 2021
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Reaffirming the Public Purposes of Higher Ed: First-Gen Perspectives

This study examines how first-generation and continuing generation students describe the purposes of higher education during college.

The Journal of Higher Education / October 2021
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Using Lewin’s Field Theory to Examine Career Help-Seeking Behaviors

This study examined person and environment contextual factors associated with career decision-making difficulties among Black first-generation students (FGSs) attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

Journal of College Access / October 2021
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Investigating Academic Values among Faculty and Doctoral Students

This study investigated both how graduate students prioritize and how faculty employ common metrics for graduate student success.

Journal of Chemical Education / October 2021
The Mediating Effects of Student Services on Engagement

The purpose of this research is to explore the way use of student services can mediate engagement among first-generation and transfer students who use disability services at community colleges.

Community College Review / October 2021